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Research

Our Goal for 2010-2012 is to introduce a body of research toward systemic change for Best Practice interventions with a specific class of street children. Our objective is two-fold:

A. Study the best program interventions for non-violent children 2-18 years of age. These children are homeless or have a single legal guardian in most cases. They may work in the streets and/or live in the streets. These children will be taken into our drop-in centers or orphanage farms as appropriate. We will establish a learning and evaluation framework for our programs (health, mental health, education, etc.) in our own homes and centers. In this plan we do not anticipate working with children with substance abuse problems, those who are violent or anti-social, sex workers, or former child combatants. Dr. Brad Lundahl, a member of our Advisory Board, is working with our President to produce the instrument and methodology for research. Research will begin in summer 2011 and we plan to submit our findings for publication in professional journals.

Measurable outcome: By the end of 2011 we will have completed and published our Best Practice internal evaluations. (By the way, how is this goal different from normal program evaluation? Because there appears to be a dearth of Best Practice program interventions in the field, our study will begin our own homes, but will spread out to other homes as well across Latin America.)

B. Study the most efficient way to maintain a low-cost drop-in center. In essence, we want to use internal evaluations to see which combinations of services with unused capacity transform the lives of the children for the greatest bang for our buck. This research objective will justify our model home in the Homes & Centers goal.

Measurable outcome: By the end of 2011 we will have completed and published a step-by-step guide to opening and operating a drop-in center that can be replicated by the relatively unsophisticated. (Note: this does not mean that professional services are done by the unqualified)


Reports

These are articles produced by our staff and Advisory Board. No reproduction can be made without express written permission from the authors.

Statelessness.
No one suffers more from statelessness than children. Read the effects of statelessness in:
A Child Without A Country: How Statelessness Affects Children in the Americas.

Child Labor
Latin America has an extreme polarization of idle street children numbering in the millions, while having some of the tightest child labor laws, which is argued in this paper to be counterproductive:
Toward Balanced Child Labor: Away from the Polarizations of Slavery and Slothfulness in Latin America.

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