The Short-term Residential Care Centre provides accommodation and care for children who temporarily have no other option. Children are taken into short-term care who are found to be in temporary acute risk of neglect, abuse or even death due to sudden changes in circumstances. This may be due to the death of one or both parents, and there are family or a surviving parent who are willing to care for the child, but temporarily incapable of doing so. A social worker who is well conversed with the local communities of Bahir Dar will be employed to evaluate risk, needs and each situation on an individual basis.

Children are accepted into temporary residential care only on the basis that they will be in for a pre-determined length of time. This time will be open to review, but the family must remain actively involved in the child’s life during their stay in temporary care, e.g. visits and involvement in decisions about care.

Grace social workers and local authorities will be in regular contact with the family, and will review the family situation at set time intervals during the child’s stay in temporary care. Once these personnel advise the Grace administration that the child/ren are no longer at risk, and that the family environment is ready to have the child/ren returned to their care, then the child will be returned to their family’s care.

Short-term care will be provided by childcare staff trained onsite by child development and childcare professionals (foreign and local professionals). 

10.04.2008 |Print |