Moving Forward: Implementing the 'Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children'
Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS) | 07 March 2013 | 2.4MB
This new handbook, Moving Forward: Implementation of the ‘Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children,’ is aimed at legislators, policy-makers and decision-makers, as well as professionals and care providers, to support the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2009. It explains the key thrusts of the Guidelines, outlines the kind of policy responses required, and describes ‘promising’ examples of efforts already made to apply them in diverse communities, countries, regions and cultures. View document

Reflections on Africa’s indigenous knowledge of parenting: Indigenous parenting practices of different communities in Africa
Parenting in Africa Network (PAN) | 2014
This publication, produced by the Parenting in Africa Network (PAN), highlights the skillful parenting practices of several pastoral communities in Africa. View document

World Family Map 2014: Mapping Family Change and Child Well-being Outcomes
Child Trends | 01 May 2014 | 8.9 MB
The second annual edition of the World Family Map investigates how family characteristics affect children’s healthy development around the globe and includes a new essay focusing on union stability and early childhood health in developing countries. View document

Contextual Adaptation of Family Group Conferencing Model: Early Evidence from Guatemala
Jini L. Roby, Joan Pennell, Karen Rotabi, Kelley McCreery Bunkers, and Sully de Ucles | 18 June 2014
This article discusses the challenges in protecting Guatemalan children and their families from involuntary separation and presents the process, results and implications of a pilot training in which Guatemalan participants from government and civil society explored the efficacy and feasibility of the FGC model in their country. View document

How the Republic of Georgia has Nearly Eliminated the Use of Institutional Care for Children
Aaron Luis Greenberg and Natia Partskhaladze | 31 January 2014
Infant Mental Health Journal has published an important Special Issue on Global Research, Practice, and Policy Issues in the Care of Infants and Young Children at Risk. This article documents how between 2005 and 2013, the Government in the Republic of Georgia closed 32 large, state-run institutions housing children without adequate family care. View document

From Institutional Care to Family Support: Development of an Effective Early Intervention Network in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russian Federation
Dana E. Johnson, Svyatoslav V. Dovbnya, Tatiana U. Morozova, Melinda A. Richards and Julia G. Bogdanova | 22 January 2014
Infant Mental Health Journal has published an important Special Issue on Global Research, Practice, and Policy Issues in the Care of Infants and Young Children at Risk. This article documents an initiative to establish a replicable professional model that would direct the child welfare system in the Nizhny Novgorod Region away from institutional care and toward services for young children and their families that reduce the risk of institutionalization. View document

Residential Care for Abandoned Children and their Integration into a Family-Based Setting in Uganda: Lessons for Policy and Programming
Eddy J. Walakira, Eric A. Ochen, Paul Bukuluki and Sue Alllan | 12 March 2014
Infant Mental Health Journal has published an important Special Issue on Global Research, Practice, and Policy Issues in the Care of Infants and Young Children at Risk. This article describes a model of care for abandoned and neglected infants in need of urgent physical, social, and medical support as implemented by the Child's i Foundation, an international, nongovernmental organization operating in Uganda. View document

Better Care Network Strategic Plan 2014 – 2017
Better Care Network | 28 February 2014
In 2013, Better Care Network (BCN) initiated an important process of developing a new Strategic Plan identifying the main strategic focus for its work over the next four years (2014-2017). The plan is based on an analysis of BCN’s achievements to date, the strategic areas in which BCN can have most impact in the future by working with key actors to strengthen the response to children without adequate family care. View document

Liberia: Regulations for the Appropriate Use and Conditions of Residential Care
Government of Liberia, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare | 01 February 2010 | 106KB
Regulations and tools designed to create the basis for reforming welfare institutions for the safe and appropriate administration of alternative care. View document

Country Care Review: Germany
Better Care Network | 31 January 2014
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child as part of its examination of the combined third and fourth periodic report of Germany under Convention on the Rights of the Child at its sixty-fifth Session (13 Jan 2014 - 31 Jan 2014). View document