7th International Foster Care Research Network

Programmübersicht Padova, 09.09.2013 11.09.2013

Monday, 9 September
Plenary session Sala Paladin, Town Hall
14:30 - 15:00	Arrival and Registration
15:00 - 15:30	Welcome and Introduction
Session 1 Moderator: June Thoburn, East Anglia University, UK
15:30 - 16:00	Foster care in Italy: challenges and perspectives Cinzia Canali, Tiziano Vecchiato, Fondazione E. Zancan, Pedova, Italia
16:00 - 16:30	Reunification, process of transformation, multiperspectivity, retro- & prospective Klaus Wolf, Daniela Reimer, Dirk Schäfer, University of Siegen, Germany
16:30 - 17:00	Questions and answers
Session 2 Moderator: Patricia McNamara, La Trobe University, Australia
17:00 - 17:30	Permanence in long-term foster care: family relationships and professional systems Gillian Schofield, University of East Anglia, UK
17:30 - 18:00	Meeting the needs of foster children with (complex) trauma and there foster families: A recent initiative in the Netherlands Hans Grietens, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
18:00 - 18:30	Questions and answers
	Conclusion and organisation of the second day

Tuesday, 10 September

Session 3 - Plenary session
Sala Paladin, Town Hall
Moderator: Nina Biehal, University of York, Uk

09:00 - 10:30

Introduction

Families helping families: an Italian approach
Giorgia Salvadori, Fabrizio Serra, Fondazione Paideia, Italy

10:30 - 11:00

Questions and answers

Groups division and coffee break

11:00 - 12:00

Group session 1 - Sala Paladin
Professional approaches
*Moderator: Nina Biehal*
Cross-national comparison of caseworkers' attitudes towards child welfare issues and their impact in risk assessments and decisions to place a child out-of-home Monica Lopez, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Head, Heart, Hands programme: introducing social pedagogy into UK foster care Lisa Holmes, Loughborough University, Uk
Protecting overseas children in informal care arrangements: a UK-based model for social work practice Angela Wilson, Children and Families Across Borders, UK

Group session 2 - Sala Anziani
Foster cares
*Moderation: June Thoburn*
Evaluating a group support program for kinship foster families: evidence on how to enhance resilience Nuria Fuentes-Pelaez, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Increasing the benefits of foster carer peer support Nikki Luke, University of Oxford, Uk
Evolution of foster care in Portugal: perspectives of foster children and carers Joao Carvalho, Instituto Superior da Maia, Portugal

11:00 - 12:00

Group session 3 - Sala Paladin
Foster care 1
*Moderator: Patrizia McNamara*
Outcomes and life courses of children taken into care Heidi Pohjanpalo, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Fostering adolescents: how to recover the relationship with the mother thanks to another woman's help Gemma Beretta, Germana Cavallini, Natur&, Italy
What school means to young people in foster care in Sweden Lena Hedin, Örebro University, Sweden

Group session 4 - Sala Anziani
Out of home care
*Moderation:Carme Monserrat*
Construction grounded theory focused on youth's rights at residential care Eunice Magalhaes, Institudo Universitario de Lisboa, Cis-IUL, Portugal
Participatory planning in community home: involvement as an outcome Massimiliano Ferrua, Cooperativa Valdocco, Terino, Italy
Vulnerable young people in Israel: Their stories about transition to adulthood Anat Zeira, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

13:00 - 14:30

Lunch buffet

14:30 - 15:30

Group session 1 - Sala Paladin
Foster care 2
*Moderation: Daniela Reimer*
The challenges for familyfoster care of children in the Province of Bolzano: trend analysis 2005-2012 Sabine Krismer, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano, Italy
Motivation for Foster Care Skrallan De Maeyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Tie caring in the context of fostering Chiara Capasso, L'Orsa Maggiore, Naples, Italy

Group session 2 - Sala Anziani
Foster care 3
*Moderation:Cinzia Canali*
Effectiveness of a Flemish foster parent intervention for foster children aged 3 to 12 Femke Vanschoonlandt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
A bilingual approach on a foster care situation: how to create an access to old memories about one's own experience Fabrizio Gori, Venezia, Italy
Disinterest of child protection for kinship care in the north of France Bernadette Tillard, Lille University, France

14:30 - 15:30

Group session 3 - Sala Paladin
Challenges
*Moderation: June Thoburn*
Foster Care in Portugal. Evidence of the present, challenges for the future Paulo Delgado, Instituto Politecnio do Porto, Portugal
Foster Care as Outcome strategy of Deinstitutionalization Process in Croatia Antonija Zizak, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Changes in the nature and sequence of placements experienced by children in care in England and Wales 1980 - 2010 Roger Bullock, Social Research Unit, Dartington, UK

Group session 4 - Sala Anziani
Birth Families
*Moderation:Anat Zeira*
Overview of programs aiming to increase the involvements of birth parents in foster care Marijke Robberechts, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, Belgium
Preventing child placement though the help between families. The experience of family helpers in the program P.I.P.P.I Marco Ius, University of Padova, Italy
Family relationships in a sample of non relative foster families from Madrid: the representation of the family "confines" and the place of the birth family Maria Teresa Diaz Tartalo, Universidad San Pablo CEU de Madrid, Spain

19:30

Main entrance of the Town Hall:
Meeting point for participants who booked the Gala Dinner

Wednesday, 11 September
Session 4 - Plenary session Sala Paladin, Town Hall Moderator: Anat Zeira, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
09:00 - 10:30	Introduction The development of problem behaviour in foster children: a Flemish longitudinal research Johan Vanderfaeillie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Making the right decision: a comparison between professionals approaches Nina Biehal, University of York, Uk and Cinzia Canali, Fondazione E. Zancan, Italy Evaluation of The Circle therapeutic foster care program in Victoria, Australia Outcomes and implications Patricia McNamara, La Trobe University, Australia
10:30 - 11:00	Questions and answers
	Coffee break
Session 5 - Plenary session Moderator: Tiziano Vecchiato
11:00 - 12:30	Conclusion from the 7th International Foster Care Research Network Meeting Group session moderators Conclusions Klaus Wolf, International Foster Care Research Network

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