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Family-based alternative care formal and informal
This session will start with a 5-minute plenary, then the participants will be split between the following breakout workshop groups:
- Specialist foster care
- Informal kinship care
- Community-based foster care
Moderators
- Anju Pun, Country Director (Nepal) Forget me Not
Specialist foster care
A comprehensive foster care system is often one of the most challenging and last components of the family-based care system to develop. In addition to scaling up generalised foster care, countries must also grapple with developing specialized foster care services to ensure it is accessible and suitable for children with disabilities and special needs.
In this session, our panel of experts will discuss the critical need for specialised foster care services, the challenges associated with scaling back the use of residential care when specialized foster care is not in place, how specialised foster care can be developed, even in contexts where services for children with disabilities and special needs are limited, and the role of care experienced young people in advocating for inclusive foster care services in countries where it does not yet exist.
In this session, our panel of experts will discuss the critical need for specialised foster care services, the challenges associated with scaling back the use of residential care when specialized foster care is not in place, how specialised foster care can be developed, even in contexts where services for children with disabilities and special needs are limited, and the role of care experienced young people in advocating for inclusive foster care services in countries where it does not yet exist.
- Anju Pun, Country Director (Nepal), Forget Me Not
- Sreyny Sorn, ABLE Project Manager, Children in Families
- Chihiro Kousaka, Student at the International Foster Care Alliance (IFCA), Japan
Moderator:
- Emmalene Travers, Project Manager, Forget Me Not (Australia)
Informal kinship care
Highlighting the need to invest in and strengthen kinship care for enabling children to grow and thrive in families
Speakers
- Sumanta Kar, Secretary General, SOS Children's Villages of India
- Khadijah Madihi, Founder, Asia Family First, Singapore
- Vandhana Kandhari , Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF, India
Moderator
- Amanda Griffith, CEO, Family for Every Child, UK
Community-based foster care
A foster care system that is community-based can ensure children have loving and safe homes, and that families have what they need to help their children thrive. In this session, our panel of experts from 3 different countries, India, Japan and Indonesia, present 3 good models of community based foster care. We look at what is needed to make community based foster care work on the ground and how some of the good models can be scaled up, adapted or replicated across Asia.
Speakers
- Ms. Anuprerna Singh Kuntal, IAS, Commissioner and Joint Secretary, Department of Child Rights, Govt. of Rajasthan, India
- Miho Awazu, Executive Director, International Foster Care Alliance, Japan
- Anna Sakreti and Ishan Mohammad , Muhammadiyah, Indonesia
Moderator
- Leena Prasad , Udayan Care, India
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