Caring for the caregiver
Guidance for frontline workers to attend to adolescent caregivers’ emotional needs
About
The Caring for the Caregiver (CFC) package trains frontline workers (FLWs) to attend to caregivers’ emotional and practical support, to encourage both family and community strengthening, and to advocate for early child development and gender transformation. It targets all caregivers, and the content of CFC is largely suitable for the needs of adolescent caregivers.
However, FLWs could benefit from additional training and supplementary materials to improve their skills, confidence, and willingness to counsel adolescent caregivers, their partners, and families. The supplement should be used alongside CFC to improve the sensitivity and quality of counseling provided to pregnant and caregiving adolescents.
The supplement aims to train FLWs in an adolescent-sensitive counselling approach and to provide them with adolescent- friendly tools and activities that respond to the unique risks associated with adolescent caregiving.
