Transitional Care Services
Providing temprary safe, nurturing environments for children and women in crisis. (with a very small number of long-term care arrangements)
Our transitional services include:
Grace Village for abandoned children, those without a safe family to reunify with, and children awaiting reunification or domestic adoption
Safe House for Women Surviving Gender-Based Violence
Safe House for Street Children seeking rehabilitation
What we do:
emergency protection
counselling & psychosocial support
medical care & hospital referrals
family tracing, reintegration, and adoption pathways
one-year follow-up after reintegration
skills-training & economic empowerment
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1. Grace Village
Goal: A safe future for abandoned children without a traceable family
Grace Village provides holistic, long-term care for children referred through social services — typically abandoned infants or children without known parents.
Key Services
emotional, psychosocial and physical care
extensive family tracing
family reunification in coordination with social services
domestic adoption through a six-month foster-to-adopt process in coordination with social services
Non-reunifiable or non-adoptable children will be given permanent residency.
children are enrolled in school to ensure they receive a strong education and better future opportunities
independent living readiness
life skills and vocational support
Family-Based Care First
AO always prioritises reunification or domestic adoption whenever it is safe and appropriate.
Grace Village Programme results:
* Children are safely reunited with their families or adopted in caring families
* Children who are not able to be reunified or adopted receive holistic care in family-homes and community reintegration support.
* AO’s tracing and assesment teams ensure children return only to safe, caring household. Intensive follow-up is being conducted after re-unification and in our foster-to-adopt programme.
Safehouse for Women programme result:
Women survivors leave with emotional stability, restored dignity, and a pathway forward.
After three months of protection and counselling, women re-enter their communities with improved wellbeing and support networks. Follow-up support is being done for at least one year. Potential candidates will be referred for economic empowerment
2. Safe House for Women
Goal: Protection and healing for survivors of gender-based violence
Up to 60 women (with infants when needed) receive temporary sanctuary for up to three months.
Key Services
trauma counselling
psychosocial support
medical care and referrals
positive parenting support
preparation for reintegration
skills training & litteracy training
referral to economic empowerment
transport and relocation support
Women receive one year of follow-up after leaving the Safe House.
3. Safehouse for Street Children
Goal: Rehabilitation and family reintegration
AO supports children who turned to the streets after displacement, conflict, or loss of family support.
Key Services
safe accommodation
trained live-in caregivers
addiction recovery support
counselling & life skills
sports, play, skills training, and recreation
medical care
family tracing, family counselling & conflict resolution
parenting skills training for the families
school reintegration support
economic empowerment for their families where needed
Children stay for up to three months, followed by one year of reintegration follow-up support.
Safe House for Street Children Results
Street children overcome harmful coping behaviours and return their family and school
Families of the street children have been empowered to look after their children in a good manner
The families and children are provided with one year intensive follow-up to ensure a succesful reintegration of the children into the family
Where needed families are refrerred for economic empowerment