Do you know what this alternative out-of-home care is?
It is a measure to ensure that babies, children and adolescents who have been separated from their families of origin (by order of the Childhood and Youth Court) can live in an environment that favors their full development and well-being.
Family foster care is a protective, exceptional and temporary alternative, focused on ensuring the right to live in a family.
The foster family does not replace the family of origin and the child's direct and regular relationship with their family of origin is part of their rights.
Requirements to become a foster family? - To be over 25 years old; - Not have your own name or that of your spouse on the national adoption database; - Not have a criminal record, psychiatric impairment or addiction to alcohol or psychoactive substances.
Families of all kinds or individuals, without discrimination of any kind, can be Foster Families. The most important thing is to have the commitment and motivation to change the life trajectory of a baby, child or teenager!
Make a difference today! Become a Foster Family!
10/09/2023 | Seminar “Sistema de Garantia de Direitos – A prioridade do Acolhimento Familiar”
The São Paulo Court of Justice - through the Office of the Coordinator for Children and Youth (CIJ) and the Pensi Institute (Research and Teaching in Children's Health) - held a seminar last Monday (9) on the System for Guaranteeing Rights - The Priority of Family Foster Care.
The event, held in the Jury Room of the Palace of Justice, discussed the importance of foster care for the children away from home, especially in early childhood. Over the course of an afternoon, the public, made up of around 500 professionals from welfare and public organizations, attended lectures by foreign and Brazilian experts.
Discussing foster care - the effects of early deprivation on child development
Speakers: Charles Zeanah and Nathan A. Fox, co-authors of the study "Romania's abandoned children - deprivation, brain development and the struggle for recovery", creators of the "Bucharest Early Intervention Project", joint work with Charles Nelson.
Mediator: Edson Amaro, neuroradiologist and Brazilian co-principal investigator of the "Early Institutionalization Interventions Impacts" project.
10/09/2023 | Seminar “Sistema de Garantia de Direitos – A prioridade do Acolhimento Familiar”