The Multi-disciplinary Assessment and Participation of Children in Child Protection Proceedings project aims to support professionals to better involve parents and children in cases of neglect, emotional abuse. The MAPChIPP project supported by the REC program of the EU conducted in 8 countries (Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, UK) seeks to has developed a transnational train the trainers program on assessment and shared decision making in child protection cases focusing on multidisciplinary collaboration and enhancement of active participation of parents and children. It addresses ethical implications and cultural sensitivity, diversity in assessment and interventions as well as children and families in vulnerable situations.
The workshop will focus on the experiences based on the 12 training seminars conducted between April and September in 2016 and the exchange of ideas among the participants about similar programs and their opinion and needs concerning the holistic and complex approach of assessment, decision making and intervention, evaluation, outcome measurement opportunities of working in multidisciplinary teams and involving the children and parents with special attention paid on neglect and emotional maltreatment.
