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Project aims to support building a healthy identity for children aged 0-6 growing up in foster families or families excluded from the mainstream. Every child has the right to know their true-life story (where they came from, how they came into the world). The risk factors for vulnerable children during their identity development is: the lack of parental competencies, insufficient support for parents especially the lack of specific educational tools for modern healthy childrearing, insufficient support for families with specific needs in the field of vulnerable children’s healthy mental development.
By giving intensive support, training and networking to organizations helping (foster, unconventional, alternative) parents who are responsible for childrearing, we aim to empower vulnerable children to actively promote their right to self-determination, build their healthy identity and better prepare for adulthood.
The main target group are civil society organizations and vulnerable families (especially foster, incomplete and homoparental), for which it is necessary to support the environment and competences for building a healthy children''s identity.
Project outcomes are:
- Interdisciplinary network for sharing experiences, views and recommendations for all working with vulnerable children
- Extension of know-how and professionalization of NGOs regarding the new method of working with vulnerable families, training the participating organizations in the new method’s implementation, especially those that are as close as possible to vulnerable families and children
- Motivation and strengthening parental competencies in vulnerable families by piloting the newly created method
- Raising awareness of the professional public in the field of building a healthy identity of children