​​World Vision’s Nurturing Care Group Core Project Model

This manual was developed as a training resource for designing, training, implementing, and monitoring Nurturing Care Group (NCG) programs. It seeks to help NCG project model implementers to clearly understand the structure of the NCG approach, how to establish NCGs, how to monitor the work of NCGs and assess their impact, and how to maintain the quality of the approach through supportive supervision and quality control. 

Transitioning to Family Care for Children: A Guidance Manual

This Guidance Manual provides helpful information and tools for churches, faith-based organizations, donors, and others who are transitioning children’s care away from residential care to care within families. Based on evidence-based research, the experiences and lessons learned from practitioners around the world, and international principles of best practice in the care of orphans and vulnerable children, this resource provides an introduction to and overview of the key steps in transitioning to family care.

Parenting Tips: A Guide for Church Leaders

This guide contains key tips that have helped parents all over the world to manage stress and help their children grow up healthy, happy, and kind. The sections explain these tips and provide related Bible verses, as well as ideas about how you can share this information with parents. The tips, key ideas, and conversation starters can be used in sermons and also pastoral care consultations, to help parents to reflect on their parenting styles and consider what they could do differently. In addition, these tips can be shared as text messages on social media, included in messages over the radio, used during informal conversations, or in all sorts of other ways and opportunities which arise.

Creating Safe Environments for Children: A Toolkit for Safeguarding Children and Protecting Them from Harm

This Toolkit looks at creating safe environments for children (safeguarding) and protecting them from harm, from a Christian perspective. It seeks to be especially helpful to churches, ministries, and Christian organizations which are looking to become safe and positive places for children. The Toolkit is structured around 7 chapters which can take your organization or church through a process of understanding the reasons for keeping children safe, the potential risks to children’s safety, assessing where you are in keeping children safe, and putting in place policies and procedures which can ensure that we do all we can to protect children.

Faith-Sensitive Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHHPSS) to Foster Resilience in Children on the Move

This booklet highlights how faith-sensitive MHHPSS approaches play a crucial role in promoting the well-being of children on the move. Faith-sensitive MHPSS approaches can restore connections and relationships among children and adults, and enhance a child’s sense of belonging and resilience capacity.