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APFEL - "Acting for the Promotion of Foster Care at the European Level" APFEL’S mission is to build bridges between countries, between cultures and languages and between research and practice, in order to improve the quality of... more

APFEL - "Acting for the Promotion of Foster Care at the European Level"

APFEL’S mission is to build bridges between countries, between cultures and languages and between

research and practice, in order to improve the quality of foster care for children in Europe. The

organization does this through cooperation, bringing together and evaluating innovative practices and by

exploring the implementation of international guidelines, while respecting different cultures, and the

rights of children and families.

In the field of foster care the work on Children’s Rights underlines the influence, of the Convention on the

Rights of the Child (UNCRC), with each European country establishing a new understanding of childhood

and child care. Within APFEL, in particular, there has been ongoing work on two issues from a children’s

rights perspective which are important in foster care,: plural parenting on the one hand and listening to the

voice of the child on the other.

The day in Milan (November 12) will therefore be dedicated to the theme "Two families around a child:

foster care and plural parenting” with presentation by Vincenzo Spadafora, Klaus Wolf, Paola Milani,

Liviana Marelli, Silvio Premoli, Milena Santerini, Raffaele Tangorra, Nathalie Chapon, Daniel Coum, Roberto

Maurizio, Madleine Tearse, Nuria Fuentes Pelaez, Peter Van den Bergh, Francesca Nilges, Vincent Ramon.

The day in Bergamo (November 13) will be devoted to the theme "Listen to and promote the voices of

children” with presentations by Ivo Lizzola, Robert Theisen, Paride Braibanti, Valerio Belotti, Bep Van

Sloten, Nathalie Chapon, Adriana Lorenzi, Christian Dehaspe, Pascale Staquet, Frederique Lucet, Silvio

Premoli.

Simultaneous translations (italian, english, french) will be available during plenary sessions.

Complete program and registrations on http://apfel2015.wix.com/apfel2015
Web site in English coming soon