Monthly Archives: March 2019

International Women’s Day

The theme for International Women’s Day (8 March) this year, “BetterforBalance, seeks to help forge a more gender-balanced world; Celebrate women’s achievement; Raise awareness against bias and Take action for equality.

Join the conversation!

Use #IWD2019 on social media to stand with the groundbreakers who are building a gender-equal future, and be part of the change.

Also check out UN Women’s for International Women’s Day under the theme: Think equal, build smart, innovate for change”.

The theme focuses on innovative ways in which we can advance gender equality and the empowerment of women, particularly in the areas of social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure.

Achieving a gender-equal world requires social innovations that work for both women and men and leave no one behind. From urban planning that focuses on community safety to e-learning platforms that take classrooms to women and girls, affordable and quality childcare centres, and technology shaped by women, innovation can take the race for gender equality to its finishing line by 2030.

Join the world in celebrating women and girls, their limitless imagination, their joyous dreams and their boundless strength.

CPFSA and FLM sign Service Agreement to expand National Foster Care Programme

A pilot foster care project will be undertaken over the next year as the Government moves to place more children under State care in stable family settings.

The pilot is part of a three-year programme between the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) and Family Life Ministries (FLM). This private-public partnership seeks to improve the delivery and operation of the foster care programme by increasing recruitment of foster families, as well as improving service delivery management and treatment programmes for children, parents and caregivers.

Under the initiative, dubbed ‘For the Child Foster Care Programme’, the FLM will identify, recruit, assess, engage and notify the CPFSA of prospective foster families for processing. CPFSA will approve families, match and place children, as well as monitor the families.

Both entities signed a Service Agreement to solidify the partnership during a ceremony at FLM’s Cecelio Avenue offices in St. Andrew on Tuesday (March 5).

For CEO of the CPFSA, Rosalee Gage-Grey, the agreement is historic, as it marks Jamaica’s first model public-private partnership in foster care.

This concept has been very effective in First-World countries such as Canada.

Find out more and view photos from event.