Global Report on Children’s Care and Protection: Understanding and Preventing the Separation of Children from their Families (EXECUTIVE SUMMARY)

Global Report on Children’s Care and Protection: Understanding and Preventing the Separation of Children from their Families (EXECUTIVE SUMMARY)
SOS Children's Villages

Researching the factors contributing to the separation of children from their families is particularly challenging due to the overrepresentation of higher-income countries in existing literature and the influence of both the objective capacity and subjective perspectives of those recording the reasons for children’s admission to alternative care. This makes it difficult to consistently understand and document the phenomenon.

To address this challenge, the report integrates key findings from a systematic literature review of global research, and it introduces new data from country studies across various income levels, filling gaps in current research to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the factors contributing to family separation and ways to prevent it.

Global Report on Children’s Care and Protection: Understanding and Preventing the Separation of Children from their Families

Global Report on Children’s Care and Protection: Understanding and Preventing the Separation of Children from their Families
SOS Children's Villages

In this report, SOS Children's Villages and partners from 10 academic institutions from around the world, have researched the phenomenon of child-family separation and what can be done to prevent it. This research tries to fill a global gap of information regarding middle and low-income countries, the contexts of which are not well understood.

2024 State of the Social Service Workforce Report: The Social Service Workforce and Family Care for Children

2024 State of the Social Service Workforce Report: The Social Service Workforce and Family Care for Children
Global Social Service Workforce Alliance

This year's report provides a snapshot of the key trends and promising initiatives shaping the social service workforce. It zeroes in on a particularly important issue: the critical role that the workforce plays in ensuring children can always benefit from safe and stable family care—whether that be in their own family or through family-based alternative care, when needed.

Bune Practici de Asistență Parentală Profesionistă pentru Copiii cu Nevoi Complexe

Bune Practici de Asistență Parentală Profesionistă pentru Copiii cu Nevoi Complexe
Changing the Way We Care

Bune Practici de Asistență Parentală Profesionistă pentru Copiii cu Nevoi Complexe: Rezultatele analizei preliminare a literaturii de specialitate pentru pregătirea proiectului pilot privind asistența parentală profesionistă specializată în Republica Moldova rezumă cele mai bune practici internaționale în domeniul asistenței parentale profesioniste specializate,  și oferă perspective și recomandări esențiale  pentru dezvoltarea și extinderea asistenței parentale profesioniste specializate în Republica Moldova.

Good Practices of Foster Care for Children with Complex Needs: Findings from a Rapid Review of the Literature to Inform Programming in Moldova

Good Practices of Foster Care for Children with Complex Needs: Findings from a Rapid Review of the Literature to Inform Programming in Moldova
Changing the Way We Care

This report summarizes international best practices of specialized foster care and provides critical insights and recommendations for developing and scaling specialized foster care in Moldova.

The Role of Catholic Church, Diocesan Family Life Departments in Supporting Care Reform: Report of an Assessment of Diocesan Family Life Departments

The Role of Catholic Church, Diocesan Family Life Departments in Supporting Care Reform: Report of an Assessment of Diocesan Family Life Departments
Changing the Way We Care

The 2023 assessment of Diocesan Family Life Departments (FLDs) in Kenya, conducted by the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) in collaboration with Changing the Way We Care℠ (CTWWC), highlights the Church’s critical role in advancing care reform and supporting families.

Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops Support for Care Reform: Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Survey of Catholic Church Leadership – Summary Report

Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops Support for Care Reform: Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Survey of Catholic Church Leadership – Summary Report
Changing the Way We Care

​​​​​​In 2023, the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) conducted a Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) survey, in partnership with Changing the Way We Care℠ (CTWWC), to assess the readiness of Catholic church leadership and workers in Charitable Children’s Institutions (CCIs) for ca

Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops Support for Care Reform: Situational Analysis of Catholic Church Children’s Charitable Institutions in the Archdiocese of Kisumu and Mombasa: Summary Report

Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops Support for Care Reform: Situational Analysis of Catholic Church Children’s Charitable Institutions in the Archdiocese of Kisumu and Mombasa: Summary Report
Changing the Way We Care

This study aimed to gather data on Catholic Church Children’s Charitable Institutions (CCI) operations in Kenya, the children they serve, and the challenges they face, to inform future care reform strategies.