Maximizing Your Impact: A Guide for Taking a Systems Approach in the Care and Protection of Children
If you are engaged in efforts to support orphaned and vulnerable children and their families, chances are you have a desire to have a meaningful impact.
If you recognise the importance of supporting children within families and are looking for the best ways to engage in this space, a new resource from Faith to Action has been designed to help leverage resources and efforts for maximum impact – Maximising Your Impact: A Guide for Taking a Systems Approach in the Care and Protection of Children.
There has been much progress in prioritising family-based care around the world. A large amount of focus has necessarily been on awareness raising. With the momentum gained, it’s important for efforts to now dive deeper into pursuing quality family-based care.
We want to be strategic and effective. We desire to see positive, sustainable, long-term changes. Focusing on systems is the way to approach this.
“Systems thinkers argue that interventions do not always produce neat, sequential, and contained outcomes; instead, an ongoing process of innovation, reflection, and learning is needed to bring about social change.” - Systems Change: A Guide for What It Is and How to Do It
A systems approach involves embracing humility, learning, collaborating, building the capacity of others, advocating and filling gaps if necessary. This guide will show you how!
You will learn:
The limitations of common approaches to supporting orphaned and vulnerable children;
A framework to support orphaned and vulnerable children that maximizes impact;
The benefits of focusing on the broader system of care and protection; and
Concrete and simple actions to incorporate an approach that focuses on systems.
You can access Maximising Your Impact: A Guide for Taking a Systems Approach in the Care and Protection of Children here: https://www.faithtoaction.org/systems/
The Faith to Action Initiative is a coalition of organisations seeking to elevate best practices in care for orphaned and vulnerable children. To learn more about family-based care and how you can get involved visit www.faithtoaction.org