Transitioning Donors: 5 Steps to bring your supporters on the journey to a new model

Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO)

CAFO engaged with markempa to study how OVC-serving organizations inspired donors to give toward a new model of family-based care. In this guide, you’ll learn the five steps to help transition your donors to improve fundraising outcomes and create the financial capacity to provide better care for vulnerable children and families.

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Children’s rights and residential care in Taiwan: An exploration of the tensions between global standards and culturally situated practices

Wan-Yu Chiu & Helen Charnley - International Social Work

This article examines the tension between the rhetoric of children’s rights and the realities of residential care for children in Taiwan.

What makes kinship caregivers unprepared for children in their care? Perspectives and experiences from kinship care alumni in Ghana

Ebenezer Cudjoe, Alhassan Abdullah, Marcus Y. L. Chiu - Children and Youth Services Review

This study reports on a qualitative investigation involving 15 young kinship care alumni in Ghana to explore what kinship caregivers' unpreparedness means and what causes them to be unprepared.

The Buffering Role of Social Support on the Psychosocial Wellbeing of Orphans in Rwanda

Tehetna Alemu Caserta, Raija‐Leena Punamäki, & Anna‐Maija Pirttilä‐Backman -

This study examined (1) how perceived social support (PSS) varied across orphan‐related characteristics (e.g., orphan status, such as single, maternal or paternal, and their living environments, such as in child‐headed households, on the street, in an orphanage or in a foster home) and (2) the relative importance of sources of PSS (relatives/community/adults and peers) and functional social support (emotional/informational/instrumental and social) and its association with emotional well‐being and mental distress.