Today, St. Francis Rehabilitation Centre has 202 children in our care. Of these, 40 children are currently in our home, receiving rehabilitation and essential need support. In addition, we're also providing support and family strengthening to 168 children in their communities and families.
St. Francis is serving children:
40
In our Home
168
In Communities/Families
= 202
Total
Parenting skills and nutrition day
Clinic day with physiotherapists from Mulago.
Reunited family being provided items for support and family strengthening
Our goal is to help these children in our care and others in safe and loving families through kinship, family reunification, and community-based care while providing community-based rehabilitation services.
We're raising funds to help us transition our institution-based care center into a community-based care center.
Providing a child-centered and family-focused place where families and children find hope, get support, rehabilitation, and empowerment in their community to reach their fullest God-given potential.
Our programs seek to engage through family assistance and community events; equip families through education, financial empowerment, child and youth development, and spiritual growth.
In addition, we'll elevate families through family coaching, counseling, and spiritual enrichment.
One of the girls we support gave birth during lockdown, we visited to provide food and psychosocial support.
Currently, we support:
What is Family-based care?
The focus of Family-based care is providing the love, nurture, and security that allows a child to thrive through reunification with biological parents, kinship care, foster care, or adoption.
Also, a vital part of supporting family care is strengthening families to prevent unnecessary separation.
Our Program
To ensure the sustainability of family-based care, we are doing the following:
Changing the way we care to a family-based approach
Children should be families and kinship care, not orphanages.
Research affirms that the best environment for children is within a loving, secure family.
At St. Kizito Babies Home, we seek the best interest of each child, which is finding a permanent family setting as soon as possible.
That's why we're committed to strengthening families, and we are now shifting towards a family-based care model.
Children have the best chance to thrive when they grow up in a family. That's why we're committed to strengthening families, and we are now shifting towards a family-based care model.
Our Programs
We want to see a society where all children with disabilities have access to rehabilitation services, adaptive equipment, medical care, and are empowered live to their full potential with their rights advocated for in the community
Transitioning our care model with Community-Based Rehabilitation Services
For 53 years, our home was a service provider to those in need within our community. For 25 more years, we've been a childcare institution and rehabilitation center for children with disabilities on a short-term basis.
We're raising funds to help us transition our institution-based care center into a community-based care center. Providing a child-centered and family-focused place where families and children find hope, get support, rehabilitation, and empowerment in their community to reach their fullest God-given potential.
The key to the St. Francis Rehabilitation Center's success comes from combining effective programs and passionate people to help families of children with disabilities experiencing poverty, family issues, and lack of disability services.
We will offer medical support, rehabilitation/therapies, assistive devices, training, follow-ups, physical and occupational treatments, and food/nutrition support to meet the basic needs of nearby families.
Our programs seek to engage through family assistance and community events; equip families through education, financial empowerment, child and youth development, and spiritual growth. In addition, we'll elevate families through family coaching, counseling, and spiritual enrichment.
Family-based care, Community-based care, and Kinship care
St. Francis is helping with family-based care services for children with disabilities. In most cases, community-based care or kinship care – where extended families take care of children whose parents have died or abandoned them.
These family members receive financial support, food, health care, psycho-social support, and parenting coaching from our staff.
Family Strengthening
We know that children, regardless of their abilities, have the best chance to thrive when they grow up in a family. That's why we're committed to strengthening families and helping keep them together.
We provide parent education on disabilities, spiritual development, and skills training build a strong foundation for empowerment and self-sufficiency. Also, we help parents gain skills that help sustain their families and children for the long-term, including:
- Necessities, such as food and healthcare as needed
- Parenting skills training
- Family support counseling and home visits via trained therapists and social workers
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