ACTIVITIES

Seminars, training and in-service training sessions organised by CSPI are focused on the need for development and the change of the conceptual and implementation level in the area of social welfare targeting the needs of children and quality of services in the GO and NGO sector in Croatia.

• Foster care
• Separated children
• International Seminars on the rights of the child (Inter-University centre in Dubrovnik)

"Supervision of Foster Parents", 2-year education for professionals from social services, University of Zagreb and civil sector. 2006-2008

"Children in Foster Families", national seminar, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and UNICEF Zagreb. Zagreb, 19-21 May 2005

"Training of Experts, Professionals and Foster Parents in the Area of Foster Care in Croatia", national seminar, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Umag, 2-4 June 2004

"Training of Experts, Professionals and Foster Parents in the Area of Foster Care in Croatia", 2-year education for professionals from social services, University of Zagreb and civil sector. 2002-2004

"Protection of Separated Children", seminars for judges of Minor Offences Courts, professionals in social services and the police, in cooperation with Ombudsman for Children Office and Academy of Justice. 2007

"Institute of Guardianship as Means of the Prevention of Trafficking in Children", seminars for external collaborators in social services. 2006

"Support to the Guardianship System for Separated Children, Foreign Nationals, including Asylum Seekers", seminars for external collaborators in social services, in cooperation with UNHCR Croatia. 2005

"Making Reality of the Rights of the Child in Europe"- Theory and Practice, 2002
In co-operation with the Swedish Institute "Academy for the Rights of the Child" - Örebro, Sweden

"Juvenile Justice System - protection and rehabilitation", 2001.
In co-operation with the University of Ghent, Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb, UNICEF, Rädda Barnen - Save the Children Sweden.

"Children affected by war circumstances, post-war rehabilitation, future perspectives", 2000.
In co-operation with the University of Ghent, Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb, UNICEF, Rädda Barnen - Swedish Save the Children.