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Orphans and Vulnerable Children
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This report describes assistance provided to vulnerable children by the United States Government.

 

This report provides a summary of key findings from evaluations of four programs in Kenya and Tanzania that support orphans and vulnerable children.

 

This analysis tests the hypothesis that institutional care for orphaned and abandoned children aged 6–12 is associated with worse health and wellbeing than community residential care.

This report provides an overview and section-by-section description of The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008.

This report examines challenges to governments, economic and education impacts, psychosocial interventions, and foreign assistance.

Strengthening the capacity of families, mobilizing and supporting community-based responses, ensuring access to essential services, ensuring governments protect vulnerable children, and raising awareness to create supportive environments are all key strategies discussed in the this report.

This report is intended to help people involved in programs assisting orphans and vulnerable children conduct a situation analysis.  It provides useful definitions and explanation on the topic of orphans, vulnerable children, and HIV/AIDS impacts.

This study provides an overview of the issues surrounding orphans and vulnerable children in Africa, and offers some guidance on what kinds of intervention or approaches might work in a given country or situation.

This report discusses six programs under consideration by Congress for reauthorization aimed at assisting disconnected and at-risk youth.