This analysis discusses about the family-based alternative care in the community for Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances (“CEDC”). Family-based alternative care is a type of social welfare that brings the CEDC or those who are at risk of losing the care from their birth parents into a temporarily stable family while waiting for a permanently stable family which might be their birth family or an adoptive family. Familybased alternative care has many advantages in comparison with the method of entrusting children into social protection facilities. | HNUE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE Social Sciences 2020 Volume 64 Issue 4D pp. 78-85 This paper is available online at http SEVERAL TYPES OF ALTERNATIVE CARE AT HOME FOR CHILDREN IN ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES IN VIETNAM AT PRESENT Pham Thi Thanh Thuy and Hoang Thi Hai Yen Faculty of Social Work Hanoi National University of Education Abstract. This analysis discusses about the family-based alternative care in the community for Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances CEDC . Family-based alternative care is a type of social welfare that brings the CEDC or those who are at risk of losing the care from their birth parents into a temporarily stable family while waiting for a permanently stable family which might be their birth family or an adoptive family. Family- based alternative care has many advantages in comparison with the method of entrusting children into social protection facilities. The children participating in this model will be nurtured cared and educated in a friendly and immediate living environment which will minimize risks and unsafety so that children would be given with psychological stability health care education happiness and intellectual development. In addition this analysis also discusses about the supporting and connecting roles of local Social Workers in the community on implementing and attracting the attention and participation of families as well as establishing and building a team of managerial officials individuals and adoptive families having skills and knowledge on taking care of the CEDC. Keywords alternative care family children in especially difficult circumstances. 1. Introduction Vietnam currently has about million children under the age of 16 of which the total number of children in especially difficult circumstances based on classification of 14 groups of children under the Law on Children would take of the total child population. There are about 160 000 orphans abandoned children homeless children
