Changing the Way We Care Household Survey in Kenya and Guatemala: Year Three Review

Description

Changing The Way We Care (CTWWC), launched in 2018, is an initiative designed to promote safe, nurturing family care for children. This includes reforming national systems of care for children, including family strengthening, family reintegration, preventing unnecessary child-family separation, development of alternative family-based care, and influencing and promoting family strengthening and care with other actors around the globe. CTWWC implements within a context of growing global interest in family care and care reform and as a result of an increased understanding that residential care of children is a significant problem that will be best addressed through collaboration between national, regional, and global stakeholders to develop care systems that strengthen families, prevent family separation, and promote family-based alternative care options. In 2021, a household survey was implemented as part of CTWWC’s Year 3 Review. It was designed to address the following research questions: 1. What aspects of family strengthening support do caregivers think have affected (negatively and positively) their ability to care and provide for their children? 2. What proportion of children and caregivers report selected protective factors in their life? 3. What proportion of children at risk of separation from their families, as well as children and young people who have been reunified or placed in family-based care or in independent living, are experiencing positive well-being?

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 This dataset contains child/adolescent (11-17 years old) self-reported responses on perceptions of their wellbeing and community/family acceptance. https://data.usaid.gov/d/vee5-r2b6
21 This dataset contains child/adolescent (11-17 years old) self-reported responses on perceptions of their wellbeing and community/family acceptance. https://data.usaid.gov/d/2knx-nexq
21 This dataset contains responses to a survey administered to caregivers in which they were asked about their interactions with the child(ren) in their care and their perceptions of those child(ren)'s well-being. It includes child demographics and care history, child functioning (2-4 and 5-17 years old), child wellbeing (2-10 years old). https://data.usaid.gov/d/m94m-tyfa
21 This dataset contains responses to a survey administered to caregivers in which they were asked about their interactions with the child(ren) in their care and their perceptions of those child(ren)'s well-being. It includes child demographics and care history, child functioning (2-4 and 5-17 years old), and child wellbeing (2-10 years old). https://data.usaid.gov/d/6a6b-tuvw
21 This dataset is from the survey administered to caregivers in Kenya. It includes caregiver and household demographics, caregiver disability status, perception of services CTWWC provided caregiver, economic household stability, household hunger scale, parent's assessment of protective factors, and parenting questionnaire. https://data.usaid.gov/d/ccir-44s3
21 This dataset is from the survey administered to caregivers in Guatemala. It includes caregiver and household demographics, caregiver disability status, perception of services CTWWC provided caregiver, economic household stability, household hunger scale, parent's assessment of protective factors, and parenting questionnaire. https://data.usaid.gov/d/yr2s-fjfk

Tags

  • care-reform
  • alternative-care
  • family-based-care
  • protective-factors
  • case-management
  • residential-care-institution
  • reunification
  • parenting
  • reintegration
  • well-being
  • kenya
  • guatemala
  • at-risk
  • orphan
  • family-strengthening
  • caregiver
  • residential-care
  • orphanage

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