Where it is not in the best interests of the child to live with their parents, we develop family-based alternatives like foster care.

We train local partners to recruit and support foster parents to care for children who would otherwise be living in institutions.

A child may be fostered to prevent placement in an institution; and once the family is more stable, he/she can be reintegrated back home.

Alternatively, if they have already been placed in an institution, reintegration with the birth family (or adoption if reintegration is not possible) is the next step. Daycare or rehabilitation centres offer advice, treatment and respite for families.

Parent and Baby Units provide short-term accommodation and support to vulnerable parents.

Alternative Family Care Services

Ensure realization of the child's right to grow up and develop in a family environment through development and support of the family-based solutions for orphans and children deprived of parental care

The objectives are:

• To protect rights and interests of children, placed into family-based solutions;
  
• To promote re-integration of children from the foster families and foster-type children homes into their biological families;
  
• To promote observance of the state guarantees regarding social protection of the children;
  
• To ensure realization of the child's right t grow up and develop in family environment by means of selection and training of the foster parents, care-givers, guardians, adoptive parents and through training of children before their placement in the family-based solutions.