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Parallels in Resiliency

In my conversation with F (names have been initialized and changed to preserve confidentiality), a member of the Leadership Team (LT), I caught up on the important subject of the court hearings for the children. The Home has received court letters...

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Ten Ideas for Helping Children Behave (Part One)

A child is not doing what he is supposed to do. How does the caregiver respond? We will use the example of “Alberto” and “Jacopo” to illustrate these points. Jacopo’s chore is drying the pots and pans after dinner. He is reading a book instead of ...

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Team Bios

Susana Fragano, ASW (associate clinical social worker), works as a child and family therapist at a private, non-profit agency in North Hollywood, California. She is also the coordinator of the MAT (Multidisciplinary Assessment Team) program, which...

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Workshops for Caregivers

In order to learn about caregiving of children in care in developing countries, our team has been visiting the orphanage of Love and Hope. As is typical in orphanages in CA, most of the children are not actually orphans but have families that are ...

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Our Team

I began the project of exploring ways to support caregivers of children in care in 2005, when I visited a small Christian orphanage, Love and Hope, in El Salvador. In my second visit, I was accompanied by Sarah Measures, educator and child psychot...

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INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this blog is to gather information about how to support caregivers of children in care in developing countries. The quality of the caregiving relationship in infants and young children, central to the healthy development of the grow...

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