Making baby homes history
Institutional care is very detrimental for babies and young children’s wellbeing and development. We help babies who are abandoned or at risk to be abandoned by their parents to continue to live in safe and secure own or alternative families. We support and encourage communities, authorities and civil society organisations to strengthen the capacities of young parents, build up their parental skills and put in place effective early intervention services to support babies’ healthy development in a family environment. Together, we can create a sustainable way of keeping infants and children out of institutions in strong, healthy and loving families.
We promote the rights of parents to seek and secure support in early childhood; we develop innovative types of services and approaches that can help authorities to meet their duty to support parents. We have developed parent-and-baby units that provide support, counseling and care to young parents and their babies; we have contributed to the development of evidence regarding the infant abandonment phenomenon in Moldova and have created evidence-based communication package calling to make baby homes history; we have increased the capacities of parents, professionals, decision-makers and policy-makers to access new information about rights, services, policies to support the reform.