Catalyzing Care Reform A Microgrant Learning Cohort to Stimulate Movement Toward Family Care THIS STUDY LOOKED AT:
How residential care organizations in
FIVE REGIONS OF THE WORLD
successfully
(and sometimes with difficulty)
shifted toward support family care for children.
It evaluates a program that combined
SMALL GRANTS
PEER LEARNING
COACHING
to support this transition and
improve outcomes for children.
KEY QUESTIONS Can residential care
What types of support
organizations family-based
help organizations to
models of care?
make this shift?
What challenges arise
How do these changes affect
during care system
children, families and
transformation?
organizations? THIS STUDY INCLUDED: ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDED RESIDENTIAL CARE FOR CHILDREN.
FIVE NONPROFIT
ORGANIZATIONS WORKING IN
PROGRAM SUPPORT INCLUDED MICROGRANTS OF $10-20K
CHILD WELFARE
Organizations worked with local governments staff, families and key stakeholders. STUDY FINDINGS
74
111
children moved from residential care into
family-based
settings (reunification or foster care)
Overall outcomes across FIVE ORGANIZATIONS
families
392
347+
individuals
stakeholders
were trained
(staff, caregivers,
engaged in
or directly
community
supported
members and
community mapping
officials) received
and system-
training
building activities
Based on research by Nicole Gibertson Wilke and Amanda Hiles Howard