GLOBAL FAMILY CARE NETWORK, INC.

Global Family exists to protect children and strengthen families by providing local communities with the tools to prevent family breakdown and the exploitation of children, establishing temporary therapeutic shelters for children who have been separated from their families, and when possible, restoring children to their families or creating family-based alternative care. In the early 2000’s, the work of Global Family was established in response to Christian institutional approaches that have poorly addressed the estimated 20-30 million orphaned children in India. In 2007, we began focusing our efforts upon the thousands of children trafficked from Nepal into India every year for the purpose of sexual exploitation and the 27 million adults and 13 million children around the world who are victims of human trafficking. Our goal is to establish family-centered, best practice models in the major cultural contexts of the world.

Our team train local volunteers in asset mapping and best practice approaches to create solutions that are sustainable from day one. Once a plan is put into effect, we monitor progress and do follow up visits for ongoing support.

What we believe:
1. The best solutions are locally imagined and asset based.
2. Giving directly to community-based efforts is more efficient and provides a higher level of donor clarity and project accountability.
3. The power to prioritize and creatively address community needs should be given to the most immediate contributors.
4. Best practice agencies should serve local approaches to maximize outcomes.
5. Long-lasting and sustainable solutions come from the people who engage daily with local forms of social capital and who endure the issues at hand.

Having implemented gospel-centered projects in eight countries thus far, Global Family has developed best-practice models for community-based development, prevention of human trafficking, rehabilitation of victims of commercial sexual exploitation, and family restoration.

Global Family’s approaches are consistent with published and peer-reviewed studies, which we consistently review and incorporate. This includes, 1) identification of victims (sensitization and training of personnel; multidisciplinary task forces; youth empowerment groups), 2) rescue (screening and physical assessments; information around available services; drop-in and short-term shelters), 3) rehabilitation (medical, legal, social, and psychotherapeutic services; partnerships between child welfare agencies and other NGOs; combined trainings from multiple sectors; incorporation of family and friends in recovery; home-based support), and 4) reintegration (vocational and skills training; capacity building).

Collectively, our model projects are active in eight countries with 304 global team members. We have reported the following outcomes over the last ten years:
• 166,447 participating in prevention clubs being educated about trafficking and child sexual abuse and empowered to protect themselves
• 1,301 daughters, victims of trafficking and exploitation, cared for in shelters.
• 1,582 children restored to their families.

The Child Welfare Council in Delhi, India, and the Social Welfare Council in Kathmandu, Nepal have evaluated Global Family’s programs and certified Global Family to approve other group homes and shelters. We have recently been asked (2018) by the government of Nepal to assist in the creation of their foster care law. The group home and short-term residential therapeutic program (STRTP) in Bakersfield, CA, is evaluated and licensed by Community Care Licensing (CCL), the County of Kern Department of Human Services, and the State of California.