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Kidsave’s Family Visit Model combines best practices in social work and family recruiting to create caring, connected relationships for older children without parents. It is being used in partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Family Services, the District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency, the Instituto Colombiano Bienestar Familiar (ICBF) in Colombia, the Administration of the Smolensk and Sakhalin Regions of Russia and the Centre for Research, Training, Programme and Development (CRTPD), in Sierra Leone. Kidsave’s family visit model has also become the gold standard for many international adoption agencies who seek families for older children.
The Family Visit Model draws from a broad base of research on orphaned and abandoned children's needs and how best to meet those needs. Unlike most adoption agency models that focus on finding children for families, Kidsave's model focuses on finding families for children. | 
Kidsave Summer Miracles®/DC Family Visits
Kidsave's model gives older, overlooked foster youth in the USA and foreign orphans short-term visits with families for a summer or weekends.
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 Kidsave Encuentros Milagrosos/Colombia
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Host families use their circles of friends to help the child meet people who might be possible adoptive families. Kidsave conducts events to enable people to meet the children. Media is used to attract attention to these children. |
