Child and Family Permanency Services Sierra Leone is on a mission to provide loving and safe environments for the vulnerable children and care leavers of Sierra Leone.

At CFPS we deliver emergency and temporary assistance with a focus on empowering individuals to achieve self-sufficiency and resilience in Sierra Leone.

Child Protection Is At The Core Of What We Do.

We evaluate the issues that separated a child from their family in the first place, and ensure that placements will not only be permanent, but also safe and nurturing.

We trace all members of the family to find suitable placements, and work with the Sierra Leonean Governmental Agencies for Child Protection to satisfy legal requirements, including paperwork to establish identity and relationships, and ensure that the authority of caregivers is recognized in law, and the placement satisfies all standards of care for the child’s wellbeing.

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Our Services

Equipping Families To Care Well For Children

We equip and empower families to care well for their children, cherish cultural and community bonds and establish networks of resiliency and support, to ensure permanency and stability of child placement.

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Child Reintegration

Child reintegration is the core of child protection.

When children are separated from family, they are more vulnerable to exploitation, abuse, and all of the circumstances of extreme poverty.

Even more than that, as children who do not grow up in family are more likely to experience poverty, relationship issues, unemployment, substance abuse and criminal behaviors in their adult lives.

Getting a child safely home is not an easy process, but it is an important process.

We provIde interim care, family tracing, and assessment.

Family Support and Strengthening

Family strengthening is the core of permanency.

Family instability and weaknesses are the reasons that children find themselves without the love and protection of home.

Strong families can withstand future crisis and instill that same ability of crisis recovery and personal resiliency in their children.

We don’t just want to get children home, we want to keep them there permanently.

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Our Programs

Family Empowerment and Advocacy Cases

Include children who have once resided at our Interim Care Facility (The Bridge). These cases have been reintegrated and returned to Family, Extended Family, or Kinship.

We help support these families financially with school fees, uniforms and other education expenses to avoid potential re-separation.

Sometimes the simple act of covering education fees can be the reason families stay together.

Separation Prevention Cases

This group was referred to us by the Family Support Unit of Sierra Leone Police in our community of Wellington and also Child Welfare Committees in our community of Old Wharf.

These are Cases at high risk of separation, alot of these families are survivors of the 2021 Wellington Tanker Explosion, 2022 & 2023 Floodings on the Eastern Side of Freetown.

None of these kids have spent a night in institutional care and we try to keep it that way, by helping to empower the family.

Mamaw's House

Mamaw's House is program of FEAP (Family Empowerment and Advocacy Program) and it supports Care Leavers (Young Adults that have aged out of Institutional Care). Many are in Senior years of High School, Vocational School or University.

We help this group transition to independence and empower them for their future.

“…Absolutely one of the best child reintegration services out there, the integrity, professionalism, and compassion of CFPS leadership is unsurpassed; we are proud to be associated with their work in child protection and family permanency…”

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DR. LAURA HORVATH