Workshop: Supporting Care Leavers Networks

This workshop explores why it is important to support care leavers networks, and how these networks can be supported. The workshop was designed and facilitated by care leavers, with presentations from a regional network working across Africa, and networks in Uganda and Zimbabwe. 

Using Household Economic Strengthening to Prevent Family Separation
Changing the Way We Care,

In Kenya, economic challenges often force families to place their children in residential care facilities (sometimes referred to as orphanages), leading to long-term negative impacts.

2024 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action,

2024 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action.

Integrated Approaches to Care Reform: A Focus on Social Protection and Education
UNICEF - ESARO Regional Learning Platform,

This webinar explored the importance of working across sectors to enable effective care reforms.  Speakers focused in particular on work with social protection and education sectors, drawing on examples from Kenya, South Africa, Uganda and Rwanda.

Learning Event: Communicating With Donors - Partners During Transition
Faith to Action, Better Care Network,

Resistance from donors is a common barrier for organizations transitioning from residential care to family-based care. What works to sustain and even increase funding for organizations in transition?

The Hazards of Raising Children in Institutions and the Benefits of Raising Children in Families
Changing the Way We Care, UNICEF, CCF Moldova, Moldova Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, Keystone Moldova, Partnerships for Every Child,

Dr. Charles Nelson III, a Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience and Professor of Education at Harvard University, explains the role of experience in brain development, the effects of early profound deprivation on development, the history of institutional care, and an overview of institutional care at an international conference on 21 March 2024.

Webinar: Religion and Child Rights in the United States
Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs,

This webinar aimed to create space for reflection on how child rights, parental rights, and family values intersect within faith communities and in public discourse. 

Alliance for Children Everywhere (ACE) Reintegration Story
Alliance for Children Everywhere (ACE),

In this video, Tamara Mwale of Alliance for Children Everywhere (ACE) Zambia shares a story of reintegration. At ACE, whenever possible, the team seeks to reintegrate children with biological family.

Thematic Workshops on the Guidelines on Deinstitutionalization #2: Equal Rights, Diverse Needs: Protections for Children and Women with Disabilities and Other High-Risks Groups
Disability Rights International,

The webinar took place on 30 April 2024 and focused on Chapter IV of the Guidelines: Deinstitutionalization grounded in the dignity and diversity of persons with disabilities, and how they relate to children and other children and other at-risk populations, such as elders and women.

Faith That Supports Families
Changing the Way We Care, Catholic Relief Services, Georgetown University Collaborative on Global Children Issues,

There is global agreement (illustrated by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child [1989], the most widely adopted human rights treaty) that optimal support for a child comes from a caring and protective family.