Multi-disciplinary Assessment and Participation of Children in Child Protection Proceedings: training program with modules and tool box, international network (MAPChiPP)
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1st January 2016 to 31st December 2017
MAPChiPP is a European project developing trainings for qualifying practitioners in child protection. The DIJuF carries out the project in cooperation with experienced partners from Estonia, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Hungary. The trainings developed will be tested in all partner countries as well as in another three European countries (Finland, Portugal and Romania). MAPChiPP is supported by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship (REC) Programme of the European Union and has a run-time of two years.
The project addresses two essential factors for effective child protection. First, it aims at facilitating cooperation and communication among actors in child protection. Various services or institutions – such as youth welfare office, social workers, health professionals or family court – often come to differing appraisals regarding the questions whether children are endangered and if so how to counteract the danger. Thus, a multi-disciplinary collaboration of professional in cases of child protection is considered to be very important. Second, the project seeks to enhance the participation and involvement of children in the assessment of endangerment as well as in help-planning. Involving children often faces problems in practice: Imminent danger, escalating conflicts between parents, missing skills and experience in communicating with children – especially burdened children – or uncertainty regarding the necessity of repeated enquiry may stand in professionals’ way in turning to children’s perceptions and wishes. As it is crucial for any change for the better in child protection that children are willing to make use of the help offered participating children is a sine qua non for intervening effectively in cases of child endangerment.
The project aims at developing training modules as well as a toolbox for imparting and enhancing knowledge, skills and attitude for multi-disciplinary collaboration and participating children in the assessment and help-planning in cases of child endangerment. To this end, a unitised train the trainer program will be developed. Using the program trainers shall be qualified to train practitioners from diverse professions in child protection. Additionally, the project intends to set up a multi-disciplinary network to facilitate trainers exchanging experiences for further capacity building.
The following European countries cooperate in the project:
- Estonian Union for Child Welfare (Estland)
- Netherlands Youth Institute (Niederlande)
- Family, Child, Youth Association (Ungarn)
- Child and Family Training & Refocus on Practice (UK)
- Central Union for Child Welfare (Finnland)
- Instituto de Apoio à Criança (Portugal)
- Hope and Homes for Children România (Rumänien)
The project website www.mapchipp.com is currently being rebuilt.
The server has been damaged by malware. You can temporarily find the important content and training modules here.
Materials and literature
- An introduction to assessment, to support the CAF training: A handbook to support practitioners – Every Child Matters (ECM)
- Assessing children in need and their families – Department of Health
- Assessing children in need and their families: Practice Guidance – Department of Health
- Child participation assessment tool – Council of Europe
- Child protection information sheet – UNICEF
- Child protection: assessment, analysis, decision making and intervention frameworks – Child and Family Training
- Convention on the rights of the child – United Nations (UN)
- Preventing child maltreatment: a guide to taking action and generating evidence – World Health Organization (WHO)
- World report on violence and health – World Health Organization (WHO)
Modules
- Module 1: Framework
– abstract estonian
– guidance hungarian
– handout hungarian
– presentation notes hungarian
– presentation english
– presentation dutch
– presentation estonian
– presentation finnish
– presentation german
– presentation hungarian
– presentation portuguese
– presentation romanian - Module 2: Rights and best interest
– abstract estonian
– case estonian
– guidance hungarian
– handout hungarian
– presentation english
– presentation dutch
– presentation estonian
– presentation finnish
– presentation hungarian
– presentation portuguese
– presentation romanian - Module 3: Abuse, neglect and development
– abstract estonian
– case estonian
– guidance hungarian
– handout estonian
– presentation english
– presentation dutch
– presentation estonian
– presentation finnish
– presentation german
– presentation hungarian
– presentation portuguese
– presentation romanian - Module 4: Information and documentation
– abstract estonian
– case estonian
– worksheet english
– worksheet dutch
– worksheet estonian
– worksheet german
– worksheet hungarian
– presentation english
– presentation dutch
– presentation estonian
– presentation finnish
– presentation german
– presentation hungarian
– presentation portuguese
– presentation romanian - Module 5: Analysing and understanding
– abstract estonian
– case hungarian
– guidance hungarian
– handout estonian
– presentation english
– presentation dutch
– presentation estonian
– presentation finnish
– presentation german
– presentation hungarian
– presentation portuguese
– presentation romanian - Module 6: Intervention and planning
– abstract estonian
– guidance hungarian
– handout estonian
– presentation english
– presentation dutch
– presentation estonian
– presentation finnish
– presentation german
– presentation hungarian
– presentation portuguese
– presentation romanian - Module 7: Communicating with children
– abstract estonian
– presentation notes hungarian
– presentation english
– presentation dutch
– presentation estonian
– presentation finnish
– presentation german
– presentation portuguese
– presentation romanian - Module 8: Participation and decisionmaking
– abstract estonian
– case english
– guidance english
– presentation english
– presentation dutch
– presentation estonian
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– presentation hungarian
– presentation portuguese
– presentation romanian - Module 9: Child friendly system
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– presentation english
– presentation dutch
– presentation estonian
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– presentation german
– presentation portuguese
– presentation romanian - Module 10: Multidisciplinarity
– abstract estonian
– guidance hungarian
– presentation english
– presentation dutch
– presentation estonian
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– presentation portuguese
– presentation romanian - Module 11: Vulnerability and culture
– abstract estonian
– guidance hungarian
– presentation notes hungarian
– presentation english
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– presentation hungarian
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– presentation romanian - Module 12: Ethical issues
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– presentation estonian
– presentation finnish
– presentation german
– presentation portuguese
– presentation romanian
Child and Family Training videos
The following Child and Family Training videos are available for use with several of the training modules listed above. As part of MAPChiPP they have been subtitled in 23 EU languages. (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish)
To access all the available subtitles it is recommended to use either Chrome, Edge or Safari browsers.
To watch the videos, please contact “Child and Family Training”.
The Family Assessment - The Bradshaws
The Home Inventories - The Disability Adapted Inventories 1
The Home Inventories - The Disability Adapted Inventories 2
Michael Ward - HOME Inventory Interview
The Ward Family - Family Assessment Interview
© Child and Family Training. Subtitling funded by the EU Commission as part of MAPChiPP.