EFFECTS OF GLOBAL RESEARCH ON LOCAL CHILD POLICIES AND CARE PRACTICES

1. FairstartGlobal Quality care for children without parents EFFECTS OF GLOBAL RESEARCH ON LOCAL CHILD POLICIES AND CARE PRACTICES A. LESSONS LEARNED FROM RESEARCH BASED INTERVENTIONS B.DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING CAREGIVER TRAINING PROGRAMS EUSARF 2014 PRESENTER: Niels Peter Rygaard npr@attachment.dk. ClinicalPsychologist, auth. by DPA, Denmark. ISSPD & WAIMH member.

2. Theory, practice, and organizational development of care: Romanian Estonian German Spanish Italian Portuguese French Turkish (and Russian, unpublished) WWW.ATTACHMENT-DISORDER.NET

3. Children without parents:The Invisible People Globally: some 100 mio. children grow up without parental care. 8 mio. in orphanages. (urbanization, poverty, migration, disease) Europe: 1.500.000 children - younger than three in public care: 45-90.000 More than 80 % have live parents! 50 % children never get a job - many suffer from lifelong problems. Why is the outcome of public and NGO care so poor?

4. FairstartGlobal Quality care for children without parents LACK OF CONNECTIONS BETWEEN: Caregivers and their leaders Building a system for quality care requires cooperation between: Government policy makers Researcher in qualitycare

5. FairstartGlobal Quality care for children without parents LESSONS LEARNED FROM GLOBAL INTERVENTIONS PRESENTER SUMMED UP RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INTERVENTION AND EDUCATION PROJECTS FOR CARE SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. FROM THE SPECIAL ISSUE OF INFANT MENTAL HEALTH JOURNAL MARCH 2014: (EDS): MCCALL, GROARK AND RYGAARD: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/imhj.2014.35.issue-2/issuetoc COURTESY OF WAIMH, EUSARF PARTICIPANTS CAN REQUIRE A FREE PDF COPY OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE, MAIL TO RYGAARD AT INFO@FAIRSTARTGLOBAL.COM

6. FairstartGlobal Quality care for children without parents QUICK OVERVIEW OF RESULTS The type of placement is in factlessimportantthan the quality of care.Caregivers and theirleadersshould: Receive formal education and training. Offer the child long term parental style relations with caregivers. Be able to stimulatebabies and toddlers. See child as a valuedmember of the familygroup. Perceive themselves a parental figures. Help child to be a valuedmember in a group of peers. Reduceviolence in peer groups. Include and respect the child’sbiologicalparents.

7. FairstartGlobal Quality care for children without parents THE FREE ONLINE BASED TRAINING PROGRAMS SINCE 2006, PRESENTER CREATED AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF RESEARCHERS, TO DESIGN OPEN SOURCE BASIC TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR RESIDENTIAL, ORPHANAGE AND FOSTER CARE SYSTEMS. GOAL: TO OFFER GOVERNMENTS, CARE UNITS AND NGOs A TOOL FOR TRAINING CAREGIVERS IN RESEARCH BASED PRINCIPLES OF CARE FOR CHILDREN WITHOUT CONTACT WITH PARENTS. 2008-2012, THE PROGRAMS WERE TESTED IN 12 EU COUNTRIES THANKS TO GRANT OF 400.000 EUROS, AND LAUNCHED IN MANY EU LANGUAGE VERSIONS. NOW, WWW.FAIRSTARTGLOBAL.COM WORKS TO SPREAD VERSIONS TO ALL DEVELOPING COUNTRIES – FREE OF COST, AND IN LOCAL LANGUAGE VERSIONS. PLEASE SEE SITE. HERE ARE SOME LINKS SHOWING OUR PHILOSOPHY AND WORK:

8. FairstartGlobal Quality care for children without parents SITE AND EXAMPLES Web: http://www.fairstartglobal.com Video: Rygaard describes the situation of kids without parental care, research network, and project mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-b9LwHp86g E-book aboutAsian versions tested in pilot project in Indonesia: http://issuu.com/mortenjac/docs/fairstartglobal.generel Examples: Local partners describeourcooperation FairstartGlobal: A. Randolph Oudemans, Singapore CEO, founder of NGO REACTIndonesia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNv7yzE2CU0 B. CEO of foster careEstonia, Jane Snaith: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCtBBT2ESAI

9. FairstartGlobal Quality care for children without parents Implementation of training Fair Start is a 15 session online based program for traininggroups of caregivers, onlyrequiring a localinstructor, internet and projector. And as manystaff meetings, participants implementbetweensessions.Applying a learning-at-the-workplace-model. Tested to operate in anyculture, and designed to educate large numbers of underprivilegedcaregivergroups. Based on extensive international research, nowrunningin Indonesiaas a pilot study for Asian version (Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar and Japanese professionals alreadytranslated the programs, and wewillimplementalong the way) Programs arefree of charge, we provide trainer’straining programs.

10. FairstartGlobal Quality care for children without parents Groups of foster carers use the program Frontline caregiversworldwide live in verydifferentcultures and workcircumstances. This is whyeach online training session starts with research demonstrated frames of understanding in practice (f.ex. The threeinsecureattachmentbehaviors, or the fivebehavior dimensions of securecaregiving) In the second step of eachgroup session, participants are offered a frame for discussing HOW to practice in theirdailywork with the children. Participants becomeactive designers of new practices. Theyareencouraged to video the changesthey have decided. Next session starts with a joint evaluation of workbetweensessions.Themiddle and last sessions areevaluationdiscussions, makingchildcaredevelopment a dialoguebasedway of workingand enhancing the self-esteem and cooperationalskills of staff and leader.

11. FairstartGlobal Quality care for children without parents Sessions in the training – From individual to organizational skills Level 1: The individual caregiver life story and the individual child Level 2: Stimulation and neurological development Level 3:The relation and attachment between caregiver and foster care child Level 4: Creating the secure child group Level 5: Creating the secure institution Level 6: Breaking down barriers between the foster care units and the local community, and helping youth with transition. Please see site for the various programversions, these are the core elements