Reimagine Orphan Care - Roundtables

You may have watched GCA’s Reimagine Orphan Care series or maybe you’ve heard about our work to reimagine child protection globally. Regardless of how you found us, we are so glad you are here!

In these roundtable discussions, you’ll learn about the global movement to better protect children all over the world. It is a movement to completely transform how the world responds to vulnerable children; a movement to see every child grow up in a safe family.

Having fully transformed our model from long-term residential care to protecting children within families, we are eager to share some key lessons we learned along the way and we invite you to join the journey with us.

Learn about the global movement to place children from long-term residential care into safe families and what is necessary to protect children in the process. 18 minutes

Learn the key components of case management, where to start, and how to do it well. Learn how it helps keep children safe and serves as an important piece of a child’s life story. 28 minutes

Learn key considerations about family reunification and where to begin. Learn why it is so important and how to safeguard children throughout the process. 32 minutes

Learn how foster care can be a safe and healthy alternative, when a child cannot be reunified with a safe family member. Learn how foster care is emerging both formally and informally around the world. 28 minutes

Learn how social work practice is vital for children’s homes and how practitioners can provide assistance in a supportive way, which empowers best practice in child protection. 18 minutes

Find tools that help explore a child’s family dynamics, healthy connections, and trace additional family members. Also learn about the dynamics of family separation. 30 minutes

Find additional resources to enhance training and explore activities which invite child participation. Download templates for assessments, policies, and planning.

Mick Pease

President and Founder, SFAC

A qualified social worker with over 30 years experience, Mick has worked in child protection, fostering and adoption around the globe.

After volunteering in Brazil with his wife Brenda, volunteering in an orphanage, he established SFAC in 2002, which has worked with hundreds of organizations in over 30 countries and, as a result, countless children are now being cared for and loved in a family rather than in institutions and orphanages.

Mick won the International Impact Legacy Award in 2019 in Leeds; a testimony of his legacy in international social work.

Ashlee Heiligman, MSW

Global Director, GCA

Ashlee is a licensed social worker with 14 years of experience in child welfare, both in Thailand and Texas. She holds a Masters of Social Work in Direct Practice with Children and Families.

After transitioning their own model of care for children from long-term residential to family care, Ashlee and her team are passionate to help others place more children in families.

Ashlee serves in the Advisory Network for Faith to Action, and as an active member of the North American Association of Christians in Social Work, and the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance.

Dan Hope

CEO and Trainer, SFAC

Dan is a an award winning social worker having won Practice Educator of the Year at the National Social Work Awards in 2016 (England).

As a qualified social worker and protective behaviors practitioner, Dan has over 15 years experience working in residential care, community & family support work, child protection investigations and working with children and carers in alternative care. He has also worked in court teams where he represented children in family and childcare cases.

Dan has worked for SFAC since 2009 on a voluntary basis and then full time in 2017.