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Restorative Process
Restorative process includes preventive measures
aimed at arresting recurrence and aftercare seeking to begin the
healing process.
Prevention
ILO’s publication
Social Protection: A Life Cycle Continuum Investment for Social
Justice, Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development
(pdf) puts children at risk factors
in a broader context and looks at protecting them by investing in
their entire lifecycles.
ILO-IPEC’s
Children in Prostitution, Pornography and Illicit Activities -
Thailand - Magnitude of Problems and Remedies is a good
summary of issues and interventions relevant not just to Thailand
but also to its bordering neighbours.
ECPAT’S
Child Wise Tourism (pdf) is a
training programme for the travel and tourism industry which seeks
to build multisectoral partnerships to prevent child abuse in
tourism destinations. Read
full report (pdf).
Crying Out (pdf) by Karl Dorning
of World Vision describes research to find out what children
themselves understand about child abuse and neglect. Until we
understand it from their perspective it is difficult for us to
intervene appropriately.
Good Touch & Bad Touch (pdf) is
a one page document by David Goodwin that educates children on
appropriate and inappropriate touch. Though educating children may
be helpful, we must remember it is the responsibility of adults to
protect children.
Grass Roots - Project Bangladesh (pdf)
is another example of good practice at the local level by
INCIDIN.
Aftercare
Viva Network has produced a 'Handbooks' series, which are based
on case studies of various child development programmes. They will
be particularly useful for those considering setting up a project,
but also for those already working with children.
Psychosocial Care and Protection of Tsunami Affected Children
lists guiding principles for organisations working on behalf of
affected children.
Save the Children Sweden has the following publication on
alternative to institutional care:
Community-Based Care for Separated Children
Guidelines for Helping the Sexually Reactive Child
(pdf) by Sue Griffin gives advice in
helping children who become unhelpfully sexualized after sexual
abuse.
Empowering Children (html) is a
range of Christian resources that have been made available free to
us for you by David Goodwin.
Family Follow Up (pdf) gives
practical input on follow up of families when children return to
their community from a case study with ESCAPE in Sri Lanka.
The
2nd World Congress Workshop Summaries (pdf)
are presented in the categories of; Research, methodologies
and young people, Ideas in prevention and protection, Ideas in
recovery and reintegration, Regional issues and responses, and
Sectoral challenges.
Case Studies
Body, Mind & Soul (pdf) by the
Darbyshires is a manual on developing a ministry in the developing
world and draws on a number of case studies of Christian
organizations.
Tearfund
Children at Risk Guidelines on Sexual abuse and exploitation
(pdf) and
Residential care and alternatives (pdf)
are more useful for established ministries. They use
Christian organizations as case studies.
Toolkits
UNICEF's
Let's Talk (pdf) is a practical
handbook for social workers, police and other professionals in
developing effective communication with child victims of abuse and
trafficking.
The ECPAT Psychosocial Rehabilitation of Children training
manual provides a training curriculum for carers. It covers all
the necessary topics in sufficient detail for caregivers to be
equipped to help these children. Both
group training version (pdf) and
self-study version (pdf) are
downloadable from ECPAT
www.ecpat.net
(web).
Lifewords' (formerly Scripture Gift Mission) Pavement Project
has produced a specialist counselling resource pack for use with
traumatised children around the world, especially street and
working children. The Big Green Bag uses child psychology
principles and Bible stories to increase street children's
self-worth. The trained street worker uses the Green Bag to go
through 6 steps with a child. The bag is divided into sections
full of pictures and activities designed especially for
traumatised, low-literacy children. For details of training
availability, contact
cwilkinson@viva.org (email). For
more details, see
http://www.viva.org/?page_id=266 (web)
and
http://www.pavementproject.org (web)
The
Competency – Based Curriculum on the Rehabilitation of the
Traumatized Child (pdf) by
Gundelina A. Velazco is written for children’s welfare workers who
would like to learn the systematic way of working with traumatized
children.
The
Caring for Caregivers handbook (pdf)
by Gundelina A. Velazco is written for those in the caring
profession to deal with challenges common among caregivers by
offering ways of coping with such stress.
Best Practice
The UK Department of Health’s
Children’s Homes: National Minimum Standards
(pdf) and the
Care Homes for Younger Adults and Adult Placements
(pdf) contain the Care Homes
Regulations and National Minimum Standards governing these homes.
While intended for UK practice, these can also serve as indicators
and good practice principles which can be adapted for country
context.
WHO Ethical And Safety Recommendations For Interviewing Trafficked
Women (pdf) is a publication by
the World Health Organisation, giving both procedure and standards
in conducting interviews, a practical help.
Good Practice in Asia-Pac to combat CSEC
(pdf) gives more secular case
studies from the Asia Pacific Region.
Websites
http://www.membercare.org (web)
while focusing on care of Christian staff has resources that are
relevant to caring for the caregivers.
http://www.paternoster-publishing.com
(web) covers a range of topics from risk and resilience to
a biblical understanding of God’s heart for children.
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