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Changing the Way We Care prioritizes scaling family care as part of care reform. To support global efforts, CTWWC developed a conceptual framework to scaling within the countries where it works. The country-level conceptual framework presents scaling as a seven-step process. Scaling approaches vary across contexts and countries with there being no one-sized fits all approach. As such, CTWWC’s conceptual framework can and should be adapted to the context and available resources.
A national family-centered care system prioritizes family care for all children through preventing…
Kenyan families are facing many of the common challenges known to increase the risk of family separation globally: poverty, living with a disability and violence. In response, CTWWC Kenya took a cross-cutting approach to family strengthening as part of its broader care reform work.
The approach targets families who are at risk of, but not yet separated, families providing family-based alternative care such as kinship care, Kafaalah or foster care; and families who are already separated and are preparing for reunification or are in…
Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC) Kenya is working with four local non-governmental and faith-based organizations in the western part of Kenya and on the coast to strengthen family based care for children with an aim to prevent child-family separation and increase family-based alternatives for those that are separated.
The support received by families is largely provided by community-level workforce including skilled and trusted volunteers who work directly with families to understand the challenges that they face and the…
Global evidence shows that family strengthening programs increase parent and caregiver knowledge, self-confidence, and competencies around parenting, resulting in improvements for children and families. CTWWC Kenya is supporting families who are at risk of separation and those who have been reunited with their children, by helping parents or primary caregivers access a package of family strengthening support, directly and through referral to existing sources of support.
Positive parenting programs are an important part of this package and are provided together with training in household…
While CTWWC has focused on systems change since the beginning, it was not always underpinned by a conceptual framework. Even without applying the scaling conceptual framework developed, CTWWC has found that focusing on systems strengthening alone has helped drive scale-up.
The examples in this Insights Learning Brief describe how systems strengthening alone can lead to scaling of interventions, including interventions that already exist. CTWWC believes that strengthen systems are essential to scaling and doing so, while aligning the vision and interventions across a coalition of actors,…
The Families Together parenting program builds upon the Skilful Parenting Curriculum and Program, an evidence-based positive parenting approach of Investing in Children and Their Societies (ICS-SP).
It aims to promote positive parenting practices and family relationships, with the ultimate goal of promoting children’s positive development, preventing violence against children, and strengthening families. The Families Together program is designed to support all caregivers with children aged 0-17 years.
This facilitator’s manual provides the detailed content for each session and should…
This guide is part of the Families Together parenting curriculum for families who have a child reintegrating into the home.
Families Together has eight parenting sessions provided by skilled facilitators and delivered through parent peer groups of around 18-24 parents and caregivers. Families Together has been adapted for use during individual home visits by case workers who are supporting families to prepare for or who have already undergone reintegration. The home visit program has the following modules.
- Module 1. Family Relationships
- Module 2. Child…
Families Together is a positive parenting program for use with families at risk of separation and families undergoing reintegration of children from residential care. It should be delivered by facilitators who have been trained in Families Together and are working within a structured care reform or parenting program. The information in the flipbook should be used together with the Home Visit Facilitator Guide. The Guide provides guidance on delivering Families Together during home visits and additional information on the parenting topics addressed in this program. It is important to read the…
This document makes the case for the importance of investing in family strengthening in countries across Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It has a particular focus on support for families so that any unnecessary separation of children from their families and placement in alternative care can be prevented.
The UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children provide recommendations regarding the prevention of unnecessary placement in care. This includes situations when the fully assessed circumstances of a child reveal there are no protection concerns but support is needed to…
This presentation is by the Children’s Trust Fund Alliance and their colleagues regarding a project they have been working on in partnership with parents to identify alternatives to CPS investigations. Using a participatory action research approach, three foundations (Annie E. Casey, Stand Together, and Aviv Foundation) supported a project to engage with parents as planners, recruiters, and interviewers to reach out to 100 parents across the U.S. who have experienced an initial visit from their local child welfare system.
Ten parents interviewed 100 parents to help better understand their…