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KEY DATES:
30 June 2005:
Abstract Submission Begins
14 November 2005:
Online Registration Begins
10 February 2006:
Abstract Submission Deadline
16 June 2006:
Early Registration Deadline for Speakers
Developing Country (DC) Professional Forum
 

ISPCAN is pleased to offer the 7th pre-congress Developing Country (DC) Professional Forum entitled “Building Child Protection Systems in the Developing World.”

Date: September 1 & 2, 2006
Venue: York, UK
Registration: $145 for non ISPCAN members, $125 for ISPCAN members and $65 for DC participants.

Detailed program description available here

The forum is aimed at professionals in the field – at the front line and in management. The forum will consist of four keynote addresses by experts in the field followed by intensive workshops to discuss the issues raised. The aim is to gain skills that can be taken back to the workplace.

Keynote Sessions:
(followed by breakout sessions on same topic)

Najat Mulla Mjit, Coordinator, Human Development National Initiative (Morocco)
Mobilizing Community Support

Veronika Ispanovic, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Mental Health, Belgrade; Assistant Minister, Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Policy (Serbia)
Building Coalitions and Influencing Policy Makers

Isabel Cuadros, Executive Director, AFECTO (Colombia)
Building Capacity for Child Protection Services in Developing Countries

Lota Bertulfo, Independent Consultant (The Philippines)
Evaluating Practice and Programs

Two Emerging Issues lectures by experts in the field:

1. Trafficking of Children - Amihan Abueva, Chair, ECPAT International

2. Developing Disaster Preparedness for Child Protection and a Child Protection Plan/ Tufail Muhammad, Chairman, The Child Rights and Abuse Committee, Pakistan Pediatric Association (Pakistan)

We are aiming this program to delegates from Eastern Europe; Africa; South and Central America; Asia and the Arab region. ISPCAN encourages organizations to sponsor delegates to the forum and the ISPCAN Congress.

For further information contact:
Dr. Daniel Mbassa Menick (Cameroon) at: caspcan@yahoo.fr,
Dr. Ruth Soonets (Estonia) at: ch.abuse@online.ee
Dr. Margaret Lynch (UK) at: CandMLynch@aol.com
Dr. Peter Lachman at: plachman@IHI.org
Dr. George Palamattam (USA) at : training@ispcan.org

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