Helping Through Action
The Learning Community Approach
In a learning community, we can experience the blessing of different gifts to serve each other and to serve a bigger purpose together.
Roadmap foundations
Broadscale Collaboration
The broadscale collaboration section of the roadmap provides a framework. Collaboration, or the process of working together with others, is the foundation of World Without Orphan’s mission. While often it is a single person or group that is called and will serve as a catalyst for change in their own country, WWO’s belief and experience is that God gives a new vision for a broad collaborative approach to addressing the orphaned and vulnerable child crisis. In addition to the Christian community, broadscale collaboration involves partnering with key leaders from other spheres of influence — such as government, academics, business, and media — who value working together for the goal of lasting impact for children and their families.
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Intervention
The focus of here is on strengthening families, building an understanding of how disaster and war impact a family and family-based care for those children who have been separated from or are at risk of being separated from their families.
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Prevention
Root causes of orphanhood and vulnerability in children include violence and poverty. The world’s best research has also shown what works to address violence against children and poverty for all children, including those with disabilities.
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Living Refreshed
When we care for ourselves by staying refreshed in our own relationships with God and close friends, and steward our time and energy well, we will also be well-prepared to collaborate as we serve with other leaders, on the journey together towards a World Without Orphans.
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Family Strengthening Programs
Hope Groups - Twelve small group sessions that increase hope for parents in crisis by over 60%, strengthen positive parenting, and decrease depression in parents by over 50%.
Parenting Tips
Parenting can be tough - and more so in a crisis. Parenting for Lifelong Health has produced easy-to-distribute parenting tips in over 100 languages. WWO endorses these tips as effective in helping strengthen families and prevent violence against children.
Income Strengthening to improve families’ economic security and stability, thereby reducing intimate partner violence and child maltreatment. It involves approaches such as making cash transfers to families in combi nation with parent training and/or on condition that they ensure their children attend school, training mothers and/or fathers and youth in Community Savings and Loan approaches, or providing microfinance in combination with education for men and women on gender norms, domestic violence, and sexuality.
Parent and caregiver support
Parenting tips for parenting young children and teens, and programs for fathers.
Child Protection
Safeguarding
WWO Global commits to individual and corporate responsibility for the safeguarding of children. We agree it is never acceptable for a child to experience emotional, physical, sexual, or social abuse, or neglect of any kind. We recognize there are two ways abuse is conducted: commission – where the child is the target of abuse and/or neglect; or omission where the child is left without the needed care that would ensure safety and well-being. We believe that all children are deserving of safety, permanency with a family, nurture, and well-being.
Trauma-informed care
Build a trauma-informed system of care for children and youth who “come from hard places.” Together we CAN achieve our vision that every child will grow up in a safe, stable, and nurturing permanent family and know their Heavenly Father.