Queen Rania Family & Child Center/ Child
Safety Program/ Jordan River Foundation
Queen Rania Family & Child
Center (QRFCC)
QRFCC is pioneering a new innovative
approach to an Arab model of a community
center, which provides integrated services
and support to children and families.
QRFCC: An Ecological Model
Society: NGO’s,
GO’s, & private
sector, culture &
legislation
Local
Community:
community
based services,
schools
Families
Children &
Youth
QRFCC Approach
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Community Based Center
Holistic Services Combating Child Abuse
Strengthen Family Unit
Comprehensive & Integrated Services
Partners with Local Community
QRFCC Programs: Translating Child Rights into
Practice
QRFCC Programs: Translating Child Rights into
Practice
• QRFCC ensures that children’s rights are
secured during implementation measures, in
accordance to the following core rights:
• Survival and Development Rights
• Protection Rights
• Participation Rights
Survival & Development Rights
• Delivering parenting programs
that address various parenting needs and
educate parents about children’s
development.
• Providing services and resources to families
that ensure children’s full development.
• Educating children about their rights.
• Providing access to recreational activities for
children.
Survival & Development Rights:
Safe Learning Environments
• QRFCC launched a national
initiative, the “Safe Schools
Project” to turn schools into safe environments
for learning.
• The Project aims to decrease abusive practices
by combining awareness programs, parenting,
children’s self- protection, and professional
training to build and strengthen the skills of
students, school staff and local community
members.
Protection Rights
• Empowering children & youth through
interactive workshops.
• Preventing abuse through parent education:
programs equip parents with necessary skills
that prevent child maltreatment.
• Capacity building of professionals.
Participation Rights
• Civic engagement &
volunteerism
• Planning & consulting with children and
youth
• Children advocating on the behalf of other
children
• Building the capacity of professionals in
facilitating for the meaningful participation
of children
Adherence to Guiding Principles
• QRFCC adheres to the guiding principles offered in
the CRC, as they provide the requirements for
realizing the rights of children.
• Non-discrimination and inclusion of marginalized
groups is at the heart of QRFCC’s work:
1. Community Mobilization Unit
2. Advancing the Rights of Girls
3. Workshops for Differently-Abled persons.
Community Mobilization Unit:
• The CMU establishes local community-based
child safety committees across the Kingdom
(lower socio-economic status).
• The CMU aims to enhance the level of
community awareness about child safety and
activate the role of local communities in
preventing child abuse.
Advancing the Rights of Girls:
• Programs for Female Adolescents: Fit for
Life, IT Training , Basic Life Skills,
Reproductive Health, Arts & Puppet Making
Workshop.
• Safe Families Unit: a multi-disciplinary case
management unit which serves domestic
violence survivors and offenders.
Workshops for Differently-Abled persons:
QRFCC involves differently-abled community
members (children and mothers) in the
center’s activities by tailoring the
workshops to meet their needs.
Child Rights Advocacy
& Training:
• QRFCC shares its insights and
supports advocacy efforts to
improve the child protection system in Jordan
by employing data collected during
implementation of programs.
• QRFCC trains and builds the capacity of
professionals working in the area of Child Safety
• QRFCC aims to expand and enhance programbased partnerships with national organizations
• QRFCC partners with various media outlets for
advocacy efforts.
Designing programs that are rights-based
while maintaining cultural relatedness:
Community based interventions targeting children, youth, and
parents
Prevalent attitudes, concepts, and thus needs related to child
safety are clear
Positive attitudes/ supporting factors are utilized to negate
negative attitudes and behaviors
Piloting programs and amending according to community
feedback
Partnering with influential figures/ organizations based on
different target groups (i.e. community and religious leaders)
Conclusions for Practice:
• Strategies are developed in partnership with stakeholders
ensuring maximum community participation.
• Each program rises in response to a need that is identified
through the implementation of programs or through an
expressed need from the community.
• Programs emerge from a genuine understanding of the
community’s attitudes and conceptions, assimilating new
concepts, and taking incremental steps towards
promoting Child’s Rights.