Tuesday 2005 September 20
Australian Volunteers Join USG, GOR In
Supporting Romanian Children
Children with disabilities will receive better care
as a result of the training received by 200 social workers and foster parents
this week, in a four-day conference led by Australian volunteer
professionals.
The conference, held in Sinaia September 19-23, is
sponsored by the Romanian National Authority for the Protection of Children’s
Rights, the International Voluntary Health Network (IVHN), and ChildNet, a
project of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
The conference is an international undertaking,
with training provided for the third consecutive year by a team of Australian
volunteers who are specialists in working with children with disabilities. These
specialists are occupational therapists, physiotherapists, teachers, medical
assistants, paramedics, remedial therapists, and massage therapists who are
members of the International Voluntary Health Network (IVHN).
The conference in Sinaia will be followed by a
series of four two-day workshops organized in Dambovita, Vaslui, Galati and
Harghita counties. According to National Authority for the Protection of
Children’s Rights statistics, these four counties have deinstitutionalized the
largest populations of children with intellectual or physical disabilities who
are currently living with foster families.
In this respect the four counties are among the
most successful counties in Romania. The workshops will allow foster parents,
social workers, and other child welfare professionals to refresh and update the
skills they need to work successfully with children.
IVHN volunteers will train child welfare
professionals in evaluating children’s needs, and in improving their potential
for future development. The training will also contribute at creating
specialized county-level services for these children and at developing the
specialized foster care network for this group. The county workshops will be
organized with support from the local County Councils and General Directorates
for Social Assistance and Child Protection.
About 200 professionals will receive training. It
is expected that many of the workshop participants will become resource persons
for their own and other counties in need of foster parents who are trained to
raise children with disabilities.
The conference supports the philosophy that every
child should have a permanent living situation as part of a family with whom the
child has a continuous, reciprocal relationship. Such an environment is
essential for children to have the confidence they need to develop emotionally,
physically, psychologically, and socially. While the ideal situation for a child
is to be raised within his or her biological family, when this is not possible,
foster families provide a vital solution for children waiting for adoptive
families.
The importance of the family, whether biological,
foster, or adoptive, is recognized throughout the world.
(by U.S. Embassy in Romania)
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