Supervision Provided to Members of Multidisciplinary Teams - ChildHub Final Conference

On 31 March, from 9:30 to 13:00 CET, professionals from across Europe will gather on Zoom for the Child Protection Hub closing conference. Book your free spot and join us for a chance to discuss how to further implement supervision for multidisciplinary teams in South-Eastern Europe.

The Conference – organised online – will present the results of ongoing research on how much – if any – supervision is really provided to different members of multi-disciplinary teams, who discuss and manages cases of vulnerable children. The overview will identify good practices and capture the lessons learned in seven countries (Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Moldova, Romania and Serbia). The research reviews existing policies and current practice through interviews and focus-group discussions with child protection professionals.

Live interpretation will be provided in Albanian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croat and Romanian.

Agenda:

•   9:30 Welcome Speech
•   9:45 Presentation of regional findings
• 10.30 – 11.05  Presentation of the regional findings
  • Croatia - Ines Rezo Bagarić
  • Romania - Irina Adascalitei and Irina Opincaru
  • Kosovo - Xheni Shehaj
• 11.05 – 11.20  Coffee break
• 11.20 – 12.10  Presentation of the regional findings
  • Albania - Dr Izela Tahsini
  • Moldova - Olivia Pirtac-Goaga
  • Serbia - Marija Nijemcevic Popovsk
  • Bulgaria - Milena Marinova
• 12.10 – 12.45  Country group reflection & discussion
• 12.50 – 13.00  Closing, Celebration

Speakers:

Lead Researcher: David Wilkins - Cardiff University

Dr David Wilkins is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work from Cardiff University, with a practice background in child protection with disabled children. David's research interests are centred on what happens in supervision, the difference supervision makes for children and families, and in social work decisions.

Izela Tahsini – Albania

Prof. Assoc. Dr Izela Tahsini is a professor of social work at Tirana University, in the Department of Social Work and Social Policy, and is a psychanalitical psychotherapist. She has extensive experience as a researcher, trainer and supervisor in social services and child protection.

Milena Marinova – Bulgaria

Milena is a psychologist and researcher. She has worked in child protection departments for more than 11 years; she has several years of experience with victims of violence and with children from the programs of early childhood development. She has extensive experience as a supervisee in a group of clinical supervision. She has experience as a supervisor in the field of social work, psychotherapy, and early childhood intervention and early childhood education.

Ines Rezo Bagaric – Croatia

Ines Rezo Bagarić, Ph.D., works at the Department of Social Work, the Faculty of Law, at the University of Zagreb as a research and teaching assistant. Her areas of interest include mental health, parenthood and violence against children. She pursues her interests through research projects, professional work within Brave Phone, and through work with clients as part of education in gestalt psychotherapy.

Irina Adascalitei and Irina Opincaru - Romania

Irina Opincaru is a sociologist, currently a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Sociology at the University of Bucharest, Romania. She works with the Humanitarian Organization, CONCORDIA, in Romania, as a Quality Manager, and runs a small consulting and research enterprise. Irina has ample research experience, both academic and applied, in the areas of common property institutions, cooperative practice and social economy.

Irina Adascalitei is a psychologist specialized in organizational psychology, a psychotherapist in trauma, and a coach. With more than 18 years of experience in organizational development, Irina is the founder and director of CONCORDIA Academia, a regional center of excellence offering training programs and support services to professionals in the fields of social services, social-medicine and social-education, aiming to capacitate and sustain the increased quality of social intervention at a systemic level.

Marija Nijemcevic Popovski - Serbia

Marija Nijemčević Popovski is a social worker with a Master's degree in labor and social law. She has ten years of professional experience with the vulnerable categories of society, especially children, youth, and families, as well as experience in developing methodologies, conducting research, and creating recommendations for improving policies and practices in child care. Marija is currently engaged in the development and implementation of programs and projects focused on child protection, capacity building of child care professionals and advocacy activities aimed to improve the positions of children, youth and families in Serbia.

Olivia Pirtac-Goaga - Moldova

Ms. Olivia Pirtac-Goaga is a professional with over 20 years of experience managing donor-funded projects in Moldova, specializing in access to justice, juvenile justice, media law, civil society monitoring, advocacy and capacity building, and human rights. Between 2014 and 2019 she was part of the Terre des hommes-Moldova team, coordinating the Justice for Children Programme. The author of numerous publications, she combines project management with training and research activity.

Xheni Shehaj - Kosovo

A graduate of the London School of Economics in International Social and Public Policy, her research experience has varied from exploring young women's experiences with social security, unemployment, and underemployment in the UK, to evaluating evidence for the design of dementia care policies. She is now involved with Terre des Hommes Kosovo as a local researcher exploring the topic of supervision of social workers and other care workers working in child protection in Kosovo.

How to join the conference:

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