News from PROGRESS and EU Social Inclusion PolicyChildren in PROGRESS NewsletterThe European Year 2010 for Combating Poverty and Social ExclusionInformation and project development workshop, 13th of May, BrusselsThe EY 2010 End Poverty NGO CoalitionPublications: Street Children Stories and Fact Sheets on Street ChildrenEFSC and the National Action Plans (NAPs)Conferences & SeminarsEuropean Conference on Child Poverty and Drug Addiction: 10-11 of December 2009, Warsaw, PolandEuropean Forum on Street Children 2009 -Budapest, 24-25.09.09Events of the Work Programme 2008Coneference, Verona 4th-5th of December 2008: "Promoting integration of marginalized children and youth through social inclusion: schooling, vocational training and participation"European Forum on Street Children 2008, 6th-7th of October 2008, Lisbon, PortugalTraining seminar for Focal Officers on Progress and EU social inclusion issues, 26th-27th June 2008EFSC Workshop 5th-6th May 2008: Social exclusion and extreme poverty as major reasons for the life situation of street children in the Central and Eastern European Member States - National analyses, reports and strategic concepts to prepare the new NationEFSC Comments, Position Papers and DocumentsPROGRESS activities within EFSC’s member organisations
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Verona, 4th-5th of December 2008
Conference
"Promoting integration of marginalized children and youth through social inclusion: schooling, vocational training and participation"
Summary Strategic Report
Joint Declaration
PRESENTATIONS
Reinhold Müller
Director EFSC
Welcoming Speech (ENG)
Jumana Haj-Ahmad
Adolescent Specialist
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence, Italy
Welcoming speech (ENG)
Salvatore Parata
European Officer
Terre des Hommes, Brussels
Collaboration between countries of destination and origin; Providing adequate assistance to foreign separated children (ENG)
Power-point presentation (ENG)
Laura Calvanelli
Responsabile Area Progetti
Caritas Diocesana Firenze
Interventi in situazioni di emergenza con minori emarginati: metodi innovativi per affrontare scenari di estrema esclusione caratterizzati da forti impatti migratori (IT)
Giuseppe Mattina
Istituto Don Calabria
Palermo, Italy
"Aiuti in situazioni di emergenza in favore di: minori Rom nella città di Palermo, minori in condizioni di estrema povertà e/o clandestini in Sicilia" (IT)
Erwan Le Mener
Study and research coordinator
International Samu-Social Observatory, France
Complementary Action as a Method: The Interdisciplinary Intervention Concept of Samusocial (Power-point)(ENG)
Walther Specht
President
International Society for Mobile Youth Work (ISMO)
Mobile Youth Work: a holistic community-based approach to a sustainable re-integration of street children (Power-point)(ENG)
Bruno Pio
Social Worker
Instituto de Apoio à Criança, Portugal
Recover, develop, revalorize: a three-step process for the sustainable inclusion of street children in Portugal (Power-point)(ENG)
Laura Lagi
"CivicoZero" Project coordinator
Protection Area
Save the Children, Italy
Preventing social exclusion and fostering social re-insertion of foreign minors in marginalised situations and at risk of deviant behaviour and exploitation: the experience of Save the Children in Italy (Power-point)(ENG)
Federica Dolente
Researcher and sociologue
Associazione Parsec
Promoting Integration of Marginalised Children and Youth Through Social Inclusion: Schooling, Vocational Training and Participation (IT)
Mariana Pisarska
Director
Alliance for Children and Youth,
Bulgaria
Root causes of migration of unaccompanied minors in Europe: living conditions, challenges and policies affecting street children in Bulgaria
Serenella Pesarin
General Director for the implementation of judicial provisions,
Juvenile Justice Department, Ministry of Justice, Italy
The Multilateral agreement on unaccompanied Romanian minors: a legal framework for transnational investigation and policy co-ordination to protect children at high risk.
European Forum on Street Children
Street children as a challenge to social policies and the renewed Lisbon Strategy : The role of the civil society as a catalyst for the social inclusion process for children at high risk and street children
Lisbon, 6th- 7th of October 2008
Joint declaration adopted by the participants to make civil society and inclusion of street children a priority issue of the European Year 2010
Full proceedings of the conference
PRESENTATIONS
Anthony Simpson
Member of the EFSC Board
Former Member of the European Parliament
Welcoming speech: The role of civil society as a catalyst for social inclusion - European concepts and national frameworks for the integration of street children
General António Ramalho Eanes
Former President of the Portuguese Republic (1976- 1986)
Civil Society and Political Power: the possible Alliance (EN - PT)
Father Lino Maia
President of the National Confederation of Social Institutions (CNIS), Portugal
The role of civil society in the context of the Lisbon Treaty
Jan Jarab
Member of the Cabinet of Mr. Vladimir Spidla, Commissioner for employment, social affairs
and equal opportunities
2010 - The European Year to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion: Using civil society resources to
practice social inclusion
Nico Nagtzaam
Project Officer
Cross border voluntary co-operation in Europe : The "Freiwilligenbörse" in the Euregio Maas-Rhine - co-operation project between the Belgian, Dutch and German Red Cross
Michał Smigielski
Society of the Friends of Children (TPD), Poland
Innovative examples of the organisation of voluntary work in Poland
Elza Chambel
President of the Council for the promotion of Voluntary Work, Portugal
Innovative practices in Voluntary Work organization in Portugal
Dr. Ágnes Cser
Member of the European Economic and Social Committee
President of the Democratic Trade Union of Health and Social Workers, Hungary
Voluntary work and the protection of children`s rights in the context of the renewed European Social Agenda. Would a European legal framework improve the efficiency of volunteering?
Brian de Lord
CEO, Pupil Parent Partnership, UK
Training and safe management for volunteers as a prerequisite for efficient civil engagement
Matilde Sirgado
General Coordinator of IACProjecto Rua, Portugal
Improving the access of street children and youth to high quality services through the involvement of civil society actors : Concepts and methods used by IAC
Alessandro Padovani, Vice- Director
Sabrina Brutto, Project Manager
Istituto don Calabria, Italy
The Azimut project: A good practice oriented towards a dynamic capacity building : Characteristics of a youth integration project run by Istituto Don Calabria.
Mihai-Florin Rosca
FRCCF Director, Romania
The role of volunteers in community based approaches to re-integrate street children: good practices and key challenges.
OTHER USEFUL MATERIAL
Programme
Training seminar for Focal Officers on Progress and EU social inclusion issues
26-27 June 2008
THE ROLE OF THE PROGRESS FOCAL OFFICERS
The role of the PROGRESS Focal Officers: discussed and approved paper
Minutes of the session on the role of the PROGRESS Focal Officers
PRESENTATIONS
Marie-Anne Paraskevas
Policy officer - Social inclusion, Social Policy Aspects of Migration, Streamlining of Social Policies Unit, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, European Commission
The Lisbon process, the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), the National Strategic Reports on Social protection and Social Inclusion and their impact on the protection of the rights of the Child: The prioritisation of child poverty under the OMC; the 2008 Joint Report; Children's rights as an issue of the past National Action Plans; the Report on Child Poverty and Well-Being
Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou
MEP, Rapporteur
Report proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
The work of the EP Intergroup on Family and the Protection of Childhood
Luca Pirozzi
Policy officer - Coordinator of Community Action Programme,
Inclusion, Social Policy Aspects of Migration, Streamlining of Social Policies Unit,
DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities,
European Commission
The European Year for combating poverty and social exclusion (2010) - "Reaffirm and reinforce the Union's commitment to solidarity, social justice and greater cohesion"
What is Progress? Aims, structure and ways of operating
Kerstin Weertz
Director EU Warehouse Consultancy
Funding opportunities for NGOs under Progress
OTHER USEFUL MATERIAL
Training programme
List of participants
List of speakers
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EFSC Workshop:Social exclusion and extreme poverty as major reasons for the life situation of street children in the Central and Eastern European Member States - National analyses, reports and strategic concepts to prepare the new National Strategies 2008 - 2011
5-6 May 2008
REPORTS
Workshop summary report
PRESENTATIONS
European Commission
Luca Pirozzi - The 2008-2010 National Strategy Reports on Social Protection and Social Inclusion - National analyses, reports and strategic concepts to prepare the new National Strategies 2008 - 2011
Experts
Hugh Frazer, Social Inclusion Policy and Practice Adjunct Professor NUI Maynooth - Fighting against child poverty and promoting social inclusion as a priority for implementing EU social policy in Central and Eastern European Member States
Prof. Dr. Walter Specht, University of Tübingen, Germany, expert on inclusive social policies for vulnerable children - Mobile Youth Work as a community-based approach to include street children in Central and Eastern European countries
National Governments
Bulgaria - Street children in Bulgaria: the governmental approach
Czech Republic - Social exlusion and extreme poverty as major reasons for the life situation of street children in the Czech Republic
Estonia - Children at Risk in Estonia
Hungary - The responses given by the Hungarian child protection system to social exclusion and extreme poverty
Romania - Overview on the situation of street children in Romania
Poland - Street children. State of affairs in Poland, strategies and perspectives
Slovakia - State of Affairs, Strategies and Perspectives;The National Report on the Strategies for Social Protection and Social Inclusion 2006 - 2008
Slovenia - Crisis Centers for Youth and Children in SLOVENIA
NGO's
Bulgaria - Association Gavroche;
Czech Republic - Proxima Sociale; Silesian Diakonie
Estonia - Talinn Center for Children at Risk
Hungary - Megallo Group Foundation for Addicts
Poland - Society of the Friends of Children (TPD)
Romania - Romanian Foundation for Children, Community and Family
Slovenia - Caritas Slovenia
*Background documents: the 2006-2008 NAPs can be downloaded at: http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/spsi/strategy_reports_en.htm
OTHER USEFUL MATERIAL
Workshop Programme
Participants' list
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