FORUM project is an initiative aiming to contribute to providing capacity building for professionals dealing with migration and child protection, as a precondition for good quality service of foster care. The main goal is to provide professionals working in the reception of unaccompanied migrant children with specific set of skills needed to ensure children receive adequate care and support.
As part of this project last year Eurochild produced an advocacy toolkit for those professionals participating in advocacy efforts to ensure better care services for unaccompanied and separated migrant children in the EU. The toolkit is available here.
This year, a Master training was organized as part of the project, on the topic of Foster care for unaccompanied migrant children.
The training was organized in Prague on 21-22 January with the participation of Eurochild and partner organizations from different European countries: Spain, Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Italy. Participants learned about drivers of migration, systems of care for unaccompanied children, knowledge and skills needed to provide them proper care, support networks and the role of professional partnership and managing foster carers related activities. In the period of February-July 2019 participants will organize workshops in their own countries to share the knowledge and expertise gained as part of the FORUM project and the Master training.
More information about the project is available on the FORUM project website.
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