The Child Reintegration Centre (CRC) utilizes a programmatic structure to fulfill the organization’s mission and vision. The key components of CRC include Train, Coach, and Mentor, Family Empowerment Advocacy (FEA), Education, and Case Management:

Train Coach and Mentor (TCM)

The CRC lends its expertise by helping institutions/organizations achieve sustainable transformation to family-based care programs through child reintegration and family reunification. This is accomplished using the Train, Coach and Mentor framework.

Family Empowerment Advocacy (FEA)

The primary function of Family Empowerment Advocacy is to maintain relationships between the CRC and funding partners. This is achieved through letter writing and photo events. Each child/family in the CRC with an advocate is required to write their advocate twice a year. The letter writing event is supervised by a case manager. Likewise, advocates also write to their families, giving encouragement by keeping them in their prayers and ensuring the financial support continues. The FEA employs storytelling and quick updates from families, which are collected by case managers and shared with Helping Children Worldwide (HCW). Advocates also support an end of the year Christmas party, giving gifts to the children/families.

We also raise funds locally within Sierra Leone, encouraging advocacy by inviting others across the country to support families with their finances.

Education

Focus is placed on the excellent care of educational support given to all families in the CRC based on the Family Status Index (FSI). CRC’s education department functions as a liaison between the organization and the schools that families attend. This is accomplished through school visits, tutorials, exam preparation, and social activities, etc.

The Teachers’ Learning Collaborative (TLC) is rooted in partnership with teachers from the United States (US), who over several years of service through short term mission trips with the United Methodist Volunteers in Mission (UMVIM), traveled to the CRC. While at the CRC, they taught children basic reading, writing and math skills for two weeks each summer. After the CRC’s transition to family-based care, the TLC also adapted to change by connecting US and Sierra Leonean teachers for the creation of a unique teacher training curriculum. Local teachers crafted training modules and provided response to the US-based curriculum in order to discover a proper fit for the Sierra Leonean context. Additionally, Sierra Leonean master teachers that worked hand-in-hand with the American teachers, went on to train 50 of their colleagues on the new curriculum in July 2024.

Case Management

The department exists to complement the efforts of CRC by regularly visiting families in schools and  homes ( these visits include announced and unannounced visits) get first hand information about families to be processed into data