FA.B! Family Based care for children in migration

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FA.B! FAmily Based care for children in migration is a project aimed at supporting the improvement and expansion of alternative family-based care system for Unaccompanied Migrant Children in 5 European frontline Mediterranean Countries: Italy, Greece, Spain, Malta and Cyprus, involving in each country key public institutions and experienced private organizations. Family based care is commonly recognized as the best way to facilitate integration and promote the well-being of children and there is plenty of studies, best practices, guidelines on the subject, but yet only a minority of UMCs benefits from FB care. FA.B! focuses on fill this gap between the awareness of the best solution and its application, intervening on critical aspects of the process of establishing a FB care system alternative to reception centres. FA.B! lines of action are: transfer of know how and instruments for the implementation of FB practices and tailored services; enhancement of competences of key actors and professionals; awareness raising among civil society and stakeholders; qualification of local systems. Short and medium–term beneficiaries of the activities undertaken are: 6 partner’s organizations and several Country institutions involved in the partnership; 150 relevant stakeholder engaged with 5 International Sharing Experience Events and 5 transnational workshop; 125 professionals dealing with UMCs involved in 5 training programs and on demand support; 120 caregivers and volunteers involved in 25 learning sessions and circle times and 250 potential foster families and volunteers enrolled through the FA.B! platform; 120 UMCs participating in informative sessions; 1200 members of civil society involved in National public meetings, Sensitization happenings and Living Library sessions; 3000 visitors reached by the FA.B! platform. In the long term, the FA.B! Project’s expected impact of an expanded FB care system will support the well-being of children arriving in Europe alone.