Children Outside Family Environment Project
About the Family for Every Child Programme
Child Protection Society works with children outside family environment especially those in institutions in enhancing protection services which ensure that the children are supported within a continuum of care. Activities largely center on ensuring that residential care institutions are implementing the National Residential care Standards (NRCSs) as well as facilitating the Identification Documentation Tracing and Reunification (IDTR) process for community reintegration of previously separated children. The project also seeks to be proactive through responding to cases of children at risk of separation and preventing such.
Family For Every Child Programme Goal
To eradicate the problem children living outside the family environment and improve on the quality of care for children in residential care institutions, including their reunification and reintegration into the community.
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Family For Every Child Programme Objectives
• To have a strong system for family tracing and assessment, for safe reintegration
• Improved quality of care and protection for children in Residential Care Institutions
• To facilitate tracing and reunification
• To facilitate placement children in foster care arrangements nationally
• Facilitate support children at risk of separation
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Child Protection
Society of Zimbabwe
Established in 1952, Child Protection Society (CPS) is a Not for profit Child Rights Organization based in Belvedere, Harare with operations across the Provinces of the country. We registered as a welfare organization in 1967 with the Department of Social Welfare. Its original thrust was in the care of children in difficult circumstances. For more than 50 years CPS has been promoting the well being of children, and protecting them from abuse, suffering and neglect.