Soon on-line you will find a new restyled and update version of the website ChildOut.org with new applications (as comments) and a new layout. ChildOut.org is a space for mutual learning, news and researches aiming at supplying information and tools to promote the rights of Out-of-Family Children (OFC) and at promoting Melograno network of associations committed in promoting children's rights.

We gather at conferences and seminars because want to learn, because we care, and because we want to be part of the solution.  Each of our stories and experiences are unique which is why we must work together, weaving together these differences to make the fabric of our outcomes stronger.

Because I grew up in foster care, sometimes people point to me and say that I am one of the success stories, but to me, "survival" is not success.  Yes, it is better to have spent almost 10 years in a lifeboat than to have drowned, but my foster care lifeboat had some serious holes that left me constantly trying to keep the water from pulling me under.