Family Like care
Family-Like Care (FLC) is a form of residential care for children and young people who cannot grow up with their family of origin. Family-like care creates a safe, stable and supportive family-like environment, where qualified adult caregivers at SOS Children’s Villages called SOS parents, build attachment and offer a reliable and trusting relationship to the children and young people, they also offer a reliable and trusting relationship and the possibility to build safe and continuous attachment to the children and young people in their care. They take on a parental role by caring for a small group of children and young people (a maximum of 8) in an autonomous, family-like setting and receive professional support.
Following from the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, family-like care is a form of residential care. It is a formal small-scale community-integrated alternative care service for children and young people who cannot grow up with their family of origin. Family-like care creates a safe, stable and supportive family-like environment, where qualified caregivers (at SOS Children’s Villages formerly called SOS parents) offer the children and young people in their care a reliable and trusting relationship and the possibility to build safe and continuous attachment. They take on a parental role by caring for a small group of children and young people in an autonomous, family like setting and receive professional support. Our current family size is 6 children per household.