Abstracts
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Sunday June 4
PLENARY SESSION
- Development of Integrated Social Services in Ukraine, Volodymyr Kuzminskyy, Zinaida Kyianytsia, EveryChild Ukraine
- Development of the gate-keeping system in Moldova, Stela Grigorash, Daniela Mamaliga, EveryChild Moldova
- Development of Family Support Services in Kyrgyz Republic, Guljamal Sharipkanova, EveryChild, Kyrgyz Republic.
- Children of orphanage in Russia - who are they?, Maria Syrochkina, Ministry of Health of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.
- Documentary film "The Road Home", Natalia Alexeeva and Elena Belevich, Russia.
Monday June 5
PLENARY SESSION
- The Development of the System of Institutional and Foster Care in Slovakia, Dr. Jozef Miklosko, Smile as a Gift, Slovak Republic.
- Placements with Kin: How Well do they Work?, Pr. Elaine Farmer, Director Centre for Family Policy and Child Welfare, School Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK.
- Children and disability in transition; advancing deinstitutionalisation, Leonardo Menchini, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Italy.
WORKSHOPS
- #5 - Early Infant Brain Development, Myrna L. McNitt, IFCO, USA.
- #6 - "1 and 2", Else Gerd Dugstad & Eva Helene Steine, Regional office for Children, Youth and Family, Norway
- #7 - Experience and Specifics of Work with Families, Barbora Kotrikova, Monika Gregova, Society of Friends of Children from Children's Homes, Smile as a Gift, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
- #8 & 9 - Importance of touch - Theraplay - therapy in promoting attachment, Pirjo Tuovila, Specialist in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Finland
- #10 - Training Youth who Care: Into the Future, Jean Kennedy and Sarah Bates, Irish Foster Care Association, Ireland.
- #11 - Experience in Foster care development in Ukraine, Anna Prytysk and Lena Shypilenko, Christian Children's Fund, Kiev, Ukraine
- #12 - Removal of parental rights in Estonian courts, Andres Siplane, Estonian Foster Care Association, Estonia.
- #13 - Looking after Children, Kathleen Kufeldt, Canada.
Tuesday June 6
PLENARY SESSION
- How to cope with children with disabilities in the foster care situation, Dr. Martine F. Delfos, PICOWO, The Netherlands.
- Recruiting Families for Disabled Children, Jennifer Cousins, British Association for Adoption & Fostering (BAAF), UK
- Inclusive Foster Care, Kathleen Kufeldt, IFCO.
- Family Group Conference - "How they work in New Zealand", Gaylene Lawrence, New Zealand Family & Foster Care, New Zealand
WORKSHOPS
- #14 - Parenting with Love and Logic, Myrna L. McNitt, IFCO, USA.
- #15 & 19 - Adaptation of the PRIDE: Foster Care/Adoption program to the needs of the post-communist society, Tomasz Polkowski, OUR HOME Association, Poland
- #16 & 20 A Journey to the World of Feelings (Heshtalt therapy and art-therapy as methods for estimating risks at potential foster families and families which go through some hardships, Marina Levina, Liudmila Antonovich, Tatiana Dorofeeva, Public Charitable Foundation "Parents' Bridge", Russia.
- #17 - "For EVERY child a family". Fostering the participation of those who foster, Nicoleta Preda, National Authority for the Rights of the Child, Romania, Bep van Sloten and Carry van der Zon, IFCO, The Netherlands.
- #18 - The Roma in Institutional and Foster Care in Slovakia, Alexandra Cickova, Jana Dubovska, Edita Rihariova, Jolana Naterova, The Society of Friends of Children from Children's Homes, Smile as a Gift, Slovak Republic.
- #21 - Family as a system: prevention and solving of family contradictions and conflicts with the help of observing the system laws of the family existence, Marina Bunyak, «Foster Families Project», «The following-up of the graduates», «Family strengthening» SOS projects, Marina Nesterova, "Children's Placement Support Centre", Russia.
- #22 - A new solution for Slovakia: short-term and emergency substitute family care for babies, Daniela Zilincikova, NAVRAT, Slovak Republic & Slovak foster & adoptive parents.
- #23 - How can we find new foster parents: sharing experiences from the Netherlands, Rene de Bot, foster parent, Rotterdam Foster Care Center, Dutch foster care organisation.
Wednesday June 7
PLENARY SESSION
- "Only the Best is Good Enough!" A look at the development of the UN CRC Draft Guidelines for Children without Parental Care & the IFCO/FICE/SOS Quality4Children European Standards Project
- Chris Gardiner, (Czech Republic) IFCO's representative on the United Nations Convention on Rights of the Child NGO Group Guidelines Working Party plus Quality4Children IFCO Steering Group member & national / cross-national facilitator: Bep van Sloten, (Netherlands/IFCO), Else Dugstad (Norway).
- Attachment Support Programs, specific tools of help to children with attachment issues (first experiences with implementation in Slovakia), Zuzana Petrikova, Bratislava, Slovakia.
WORKSHOPS
- #24 - DEFT: vocational training programme for trainers of foster carers, Bep van Sloten (The Netherlands and Fredrik Ingvarsson (Sweden), International Foster Care Organisation, The Hague, The Netherlands
- #25 - Alternative Forms of Family Care and their Benefits to Children in Eastern Europe, Ingrid Jones, Christian Children's Fund, Tirana, Albania.
- #26 - Estonian foster children in 2005, Andres Siplane, Estonian Foster Care Association, Tallinn, Estonia.
