Children's Future is pleased to announce its new Executive Director, Austin Klemmer. Austin has been working with Children’s Future since January 2015, starting as a Communications Intern and moving on to become the Communications Director. He has been integral element in the growth and success of Children’s Future. The New York native has extensive personal [...]
The Children’s Future healthcare and social work teams regularly intervene in situations where a small child’s life is in danger. Often, these children are still infants, and in very dire situations-- Cambodia's infant mortality rate is still the highest in the S.E. Asia. Recently, Children’s Future discovered that Chantha, a younger sibling of three of [...]
For many of the families we help, Children's Future is the last and only line of defense against domestic abuse.To enhance the protection of children and families, our social workers intervene on such issues with an adaption of the Signs of Safety, a cutting edge framework for child protection, and try to prevent further harm as [...]
Mental health was the focus of this month’s social work training, with an exciting and cutting-edge therapy tool taking center stage. Many of Children’s Future’s students experience distressing situations on an ongoing basis - often losing caretakers, witnessing violence or being subjected to assaults. Additionally, growing up in an environment of severe poverty adversely affects [...]
Dear Children's Future Family, On behalf of the Board of Directors of Children’s Future, I am excited to announce the appointment of Sarah Hidey as the Interim Executive Director of Children’s Future beginning March 22, 2016. This appointment is a result of current Children’s Future Executive Director, Melissa Theesen, accepting a position as the Managing [...]
Minea As a young girl, Minea lived with her aunt and cousin because she had no immediate family. There was limited access to work in her village, so Minea’s family moved to Thailand when she was nine in search of manual labor. Children’s Future had not worked with her at the time, but [...]
Social work is the cornerstone of Children’s Future’s education program, and we’re committed to use the highest professional standards possible. The Children’s Future social work team works with high standards of practice among NGOs in Cambodia. Because of the child protection and well-being systems that the social work team has built and upheld, we are [...]
Behind the classrooms, library, and offices is a sprawling garden. At most times of the day there are a few students outside playing on the tire swing that hangs from a huge tree in the middle of the garden, or a small group huddled together in one of the grass huts practicing the guitar. There [...]
One of our social workers, Hour, has started implementing interactive group workshops with students and their families together at the Learning Center. Hour says that she takes the topics--which include include domestic violence, reproductive health, child trafficking, and life skills-- from recurring problems that she sees in the community. When so many families are having the [...]
By Alli Barns This year, my husband and I have had the opportunity to travel and work with organizations around the world for his job at Better Lives. During our time in Battambang, I had the chance to work with and learn from some of of the highly-driven staff and teachers from the learning center, [...]