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CHILDHOOD LINKS (Liens d'enfance) - Method to maintain links between fostered children and their families

Stockholm (2003) : The European Commission declares that fostered children must keep a link with their families. Professional carers need thus methods and tools enabling them to maintain an adjusted link. R. MICHIT (Fr) has developed an adequate method to enable the pedagogical teams both to improve their educative strategies and to better adjust their decision-making process in an objective and non-dogmatic way. This method helps the social workers to keep the right distance to analyze and adapt their decisions and educative. The intervention is individualized and tailor-made and an objective follow-up during part-time hosting can be shared with the administrative and legal teams. The process is strengthened by a dedicated software TRIADES enabling to draw the actual maps of the relationships during complex educative situations and to assess the integration of the method. The project consortium has been set up in each countries (FR, CZ, SP, IT) with hosting institutions for fostered children, social workers and managers, training centers and universities. Partners will adapt, test and assess the training contents about the MICHIT method. The present results in terms of better motivation of professionals and concrete satisfaction of families enable the consortium to valorize significant effectiveness of the method for the final beneficiaries: children and their families.
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