CASE STUDY : Quality Institutional Care and Alternatives for Children (QIC&AC)

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CASE STUDY : Quality Institutional Care and Alternatives for Children (QIC&AC)

The Quality Institutional Care and Alternatives for Children (QIC&AC) initiative is based on some beliefs firmly held by CRY:

 The family is the primary unit for the growth and welfare of children

 Parents are the primary care givers of their children

 Every child has the right to a family-biological, adoptive, foster or sponsored

 Institutional care should only be a solution of last resort

 A child should be put in an institution only when the situation in the family is detrimental to its' growth

 Institutional care should be used for the least possible time

Keeping these beliefs in mind, CRY's activities focus on restoring rights to children by sensitizing, involving and empowering families and communities.


There has been a dramatic increase in the number of children seeking and entering institutional care 10% of who are abandoned or orphans. Education is often the reason why parents seek institutional care for their children. Due to lack of access to a good school, poor families admit their children into institutions, presuming that these offer better education.


Hence the QIC&AC initiative sets quality standards for institutional care for children, by establishing resource organizations, enabling relevant training resources & trained personnel, ensuring partnerships with the government and by understanding, studying and promoting alternatives to institutional care for children.


The partners of this initiative are at 2 levels.

Macro level: The Central and State governments, legal adoption agencies, state level networks and the media
Micro level: Resource Organizations, children involved and their families, staff in the institutions, district and village-level government officials and the local community
 
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