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Bethan Carter, a research associate at Cardiff University, discusses the ReThink Project; a project run in collaboration with Adoption UK and Coram Voice to investigate what processes are linked to mental health and wellbeing of care-experienced young people and how they manage at two key transitions in life.
Find out more about the conference series 'On the Journey: Navigating Mental Health' here: https://www.exchangewales.org/on-the-journey-navigating-mental-health/
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The mental health and well-being of care-experienced children and young people remains a concern. Despite a range of interventions, the existing evidence base is limited in scope, with a reliance on standalone outcome evaluations which limits understanding of how contextual factors influence implementation and acceptability. The care-experienced children and young people’s interventions to improve mental health and well-being outcomes systematic review (CHIMES) aimed to synthesise evidence of intervention theory, outcome, process and economic effectiveness. This…
Conferința internațională “Finanțarea serviciilor sociale pentru copii și familii în contextul Agendei de Asociere Republica Moldova – Uniunea Europeană” este un eveniment anual organizat sub egida Parlamentului Republicii Moldova în colaborare cu Ministerul Muncii și Protecției Sociale. Conferința vizează implicarea reprezentanților autorităților publice centrale și locale, a societății civile, a sectorului privat și mediului academic, precum și a experților internaționali, organizații care colaborează pentru identificarea provocărilor și asigurarea unei finanțări publice adecvate în vederea…
In this article published in the most recent edition of the Catholic Care for Children Magazine, Sr. Game OLX88 dalah situs gacor terpercaya se asia yang mampu memberikan tingkat kemenagan maxwin. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth wrote that "Children’s institutions whether managed publicly or privately can never substitute family values and community-based approaches on holistic care of children, an aspect that Africans embraced over the years."
Children outside of family-based care, as in the case of those living on the streets or in residential care, are in vulnerable situations. Because a protracted stay out of family-based care implies further susceptibility, reintegrating these children into the community through reunification with families or other exit strategies as early as possible is highly recommended.
Although most service providers working with vulnerable children do not target reintegration interventions, evidences indicate that only a few of the reintegration interventions become successful. Therefore, in addition…
Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC) promotes safe, nurturing family care for children reintegrating from residential care facilities (often referred to as “orphanages”) and prevents child-family separation by strengthening families, reforming national systems of care for children, and working to shift donor and volunteer support away from residential care and toward family care alternatives.
Launched on October 1, 2018, the CTWWC initiative is organized around three main strategic objectives: (1) Governments promote family care; (2) Children stay in or return to safe and nurturing families;…
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The Republic of Moldova has been on a fifteen-year journey of moving from a social welfare system based on residential care for children to one centered around family care. There has been a dramatic reduction in the number of children in residential care, from some 17,000 before 2000 to less than 700 today. Concurrently, progress has been made in developing new laws, policies, and standards to promote family care, including the establishment of models of alternative family care. A minimum package of care services (MPS) has been established, by law, with a focus on…
Families First Project is a program initiated by Save the Children in Indonesia in collaboration with the Indonesian Government to promote a safe family environment for raising and caring for children, either in their own families or in family and community-based care alternatives.
In the past 15 years, the Families First Project has made great achievements in shifting the childcare paradigm from institution-based to family-based and enabling hundreds of thousands of children to go back home and stay with family whilst also having access to education. Statistically, in 2007, there were…
The infographic provides a visual reference for the cultural shift needed to protect children through strengthening families.
The Visioning for Prevention infographic illustrates what a family-serving, prevention-focused system looks like, making clear the benefits of becoming that system.
Child welfare agency leadership can use this publication to communicate that shifting to a prevention-focused system is designed to help families thrive and is beneficial for everyone—the child welfare system, communities, and families.
The infographic is intended to be shared internally or…
See what an integrated, comprehensive, prevention-focused approach looks like along a three-tiered prevention continuum.
Illustrates what an integrated, comprehensive, prevention-focused approach looks like along a three-tiered prevention continuum. The publication defines primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention; identifies key partners who need to be actively involved in collaboration at each level; describes what it means to be aligned across prevention levels to offer seamless services; and features examples.
Child welfare leaders and managers can use this to establish…