A CHRDRI Seminar will Contribute to Improving the Quality of Foster Care Services

From 7 to 9 September 2015 in CHRDRI will be held a seminar on "Work with Foster Parents and Children housed in Foster Families -Evaluation and Study of Candidates for Foster Families, Quality of Foster Care Service".

The training will be attended by 19 social workers from the Child Protection Directorate / Social Assistance Department and experts form Regional Social Assistance Directorates of the Social Assistance Agency and the State Agency for Child Protection. The aim of the training is to enrich their knowledge in the approaches to children living in foster families who are disabled or are victims of violence. The training will focus on approaches to improve the quality of practical skills of "foster care", as well as on methods of working with children in a period of moving from foster to adoptive family.

The focus of the seminar will be placed on supporting the child and the foster family when the process to national or international adoption have been already initiated, work with the biological family in contact with the child, the use of "foster care", and enforcement of protecting the interests of the child. The participants will deal with the problems accompanying "foster care" and will discuss case studies.

Lecturer of the training will be Ms. Detelina Ignatova, head of the "Actions and measures for child protection" Directorate to the Social Assistance Agency.

Successful graduates will receive certificates.