An introduction to Care for Children's Strategic Plan for 2024 – 2026

Care for Children's 'Strategic Aspiration' is a bit of a mouthful, but here it is:

To scale up Care for Children's global impact by implementing a new sustainable development framework that will create greater capacity to work in more countries and accelerate our level of service, while also retaining our DNA that is based on relationship orientated strategies, to move more children out of institutions and into families, and demonstrate to the world that the health of families drives the health of a nation.

Thankfully, it gets easier to understand when we break it down into our 'Strategic Objectives'. These are the key areas of organisational development that we have agreed to focus on to bring our 'Strategic Aspiration' to life.

We have four 'Strategic Objectives':

1. Digitalise our training
2. Upscale our methodology
3. Increase our relationship capacity
4. Streamline our workflow

Here's a little more information on each one.

1. Digitalise our training

Care for Children is capturing our DNA into an online and digital training and resource tool called 'My Family'.

'My Family' will make Care for Children's training programme and resources more accessible through online training and digital downloads.

'My Family' also makes our training more adaptable, with the ability to translate a comprehensive training programme quicker and more efficiently.

Taking full advantage of the power of digital tools and the internet, 'My Family' enables Care for Children's project work to be more agile, providing greater opportunities to share our training and resources to more people, quicker.

Finally, My Family will facilitate more relationships as we use it to engage with more people around the world, from international family

2. Upscale our methodology

Care for Children's projects have achieved national success by developing a hub location in one city, and then replicating the model nationally through relationship building and strategic training programmes.

Even in countries as diverse as China, with multiple dialects, our national hub has been able to facilitate widespread social welfare reform in every province, without having to establish multiple offices, or recruit multiple training teams.

Our new sustainable development framework uses the same methodology, but now on a global scale.

Care for Children will develop regional hubs that will serve as ecosystems of social welfare reform for countries in their respective geographical regions.

For example:

1. Singapore Hub - Asia
2. Armenia Hub - Middle East & South Caucasus
3. Zambia Hub – Africa
4. Bahamas Hub – Caribbean
5. Belize Hub – Central America

Using the Armenia Hub as an example, our plan is to work with the Armenian government to champion and develop family placement care in countries such as Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon.

3. Increase our relationship capacity

With relationships at the heart of Care for Children's strategy, in order to upscale our work onto a global scale, there is a need to recruit new key positions to both initiate and maintain new relationships to provide the capacity for growth.

We plan to recruit the majority of these positions in 2024 and 2025 in order to undertake the work required to implement the strategic plan.

4. Streamline our workflow

We will look to develop a 70/30 rule to our processes throughout the organisation:

1. 70% standardised processes
2. 30% flexibility for local adaptation

This will be applied across departments, including:

1. Project country MOUs
2. My Family translation and adaptation
3. Project evaluations

Care for Children's strategy is entirely focussed on enabling our vision to see 'a world of children in families'!