Casa Viva

Casa Viva Costa Rica
1. Develop family based care for children in Costa Rica, including foster care, reunification and adoption. In 2021, Casa Viva will place our 1,000th child in foster care through local Christian families.
2. Engage the church and local government to pursue the best long term interest of the children.
3. Pursue local sustainability. 100% of the staff of Casa Viva Costa Rica are Costa Ricans. 90% of the funds for Casa Viva Costa Rica are generated from local sources.

Casa Viva Solutions
1. See family become the first solution for children separated from their own family globally, but especially in Latin America.
2. Help children's homes expand their care alternatives to be more family like and to include reunification, fostering and adoption for the children.
3. Support governments to reform the national care system for countries, especially in Latin America.

Casa Viva Costa Rica (CVCR)
Develop a Christian Child and Family agency with the following key components.
1. Local professional team who are trained to support foster, adoptive and reunified families. Currently, CVCR has 25 local staff members.
2. Engage local churches to participate for children. CVCR currently has 40 active partner churches.
3. Partner closely with the local government. CVCR works closely with PANI, Costa Rica's child welfare agency.
4. Pursue local sustainability by securing income from national sources. Currently, 90% of the funding for CVCR comes from Costa Rican sources.
5. Place children in families. CVCR will place their 1,000th child in a family in early 2021.
6. Pursue the best long term solution for each child in care. 60% of CVCR's children are reunified to biological or extended families. 30% are adopted (mostly nationally). 8% continue in long term foster care. Less than 2% do not find a solution in a family.

Casa Viva Solutions
1. Develop a micro initiative that offers every children's home and orphanage in Latin America an opportunity to walk through a training and transition process to expand their care alternatives to include families.

Staff: Casa Viva has 30 employees, 28 of whom are Latins living in Costa Rica.

Offices: Casa Viva Costa Rica (CVCR) has three offices in Costa Rica to serve local foster and reunified families

Government relationship: CVCR enjoys a close relationship with the child welfare and judicial offices in Costa Rica

Church relationship: CVCR works with Evangelical and Catholic churches and families to provide solutions for children.

Training: Casa Viva staff are trained to be able to train and support foster, adoptive and reunified families.

Orphanage relationships: Casa Viva is interacting with hundreds of orphanages and children's homes every year through virtual and in person trainings. These relationships lead to dozens of children's homes entering a contractual relationship with Casa Viva to help them transition.

Global partners: Through our global contacts, Casa Viva is one piece in the global puzzle of care reform for children who have become separated from their families.

Casa Viva Costa Rica
Has placed 900 children in families
Of the children leaving our program 60% have returned to biological or extended families, and 30% have been adopted, most nationally
Works closely with 40 partner churches
Coordinates closely with the national government
Has a Latin staff of 25 people trained to support foster, adoptive and reunified families

Casa Viva Solutions
Has trained orphanage and government leaders in 20 countries, mostly in Latin America
Has worked with dozens of orphanages to help them expand their services to see children cared for in families.