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Whole Child International’s mission is to elevate the quality of care for children worldwide. The very core of Whole Child is the creation of strong relationships for children in resource-challenged residential care and childcare settings. Whole Child engages with multiple stakeholders across the child protection system, from government policymakers to key academics, to government supervisors, to direct care providers. Your collective dollars will help Whole Child deepen the relationships between caregivers and children in El Salvador.
Whole Child recognizes that quality of care has a profound impact on children’s development. Whole Child specializes in relationship-centered care for children – responsive, consistent care that engenders stable attachments and trusting bonds between children and their primary caregivers. In addition, Whole Child understands the need to catalyze change across systems of care. To this end, the organization has developed innovative and scalable tools, training programs, and practices that support governments and key local partners to make lasting, positive improvements across the child protection and childcare systems.
Whole Child’s intervention model identifies and leverages existing stakeholders and critical processes in the child protection system to induce sustainable, positive change. It is essential to understand that improving outcomes for children means coordinating with and supporting both the child protection and childcare systems.
The impact of the Whole Child International program has been proven through a regimen of research and evaluation that has been central to Whole Child’s operations throughout its history as an organization.
Our objective is ambitious — to improve childcare by solving key problems that plague children in group care worldwide — so we have long known that our program needs to be effective and cost-effective before it can be implemented and further evaluated in countries around the world.
Whole Child’s programs focus on low-cost interventions that are strategically designed to be both sustainable over time and scalable to larger regions and systems of care.
The effectiveness of these programs has been rigorously evaluated by an independent team at the University of Pittsburgh’s Office of Child Development. Their evaluation reports detail progressive improvement in the children who participated in our program as measured by a variety of standardized child-development measurement tools. These reports confirm what can be seen in all settings where we have worked: our interventions achieve significant improvements in children’s social-emotional, cognitive, linguistic, and even (despite no change in nutrition) their physical development. In short, the children we reach are given the tools with which to build productive lives.
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