“ADOPTION FOR THE RIGHT REASONS; an option for permanency”
ASSOCIATION OF ACCREDITED ADOPTION ORGANISATIONS
Programme 23 – 24 April 2014
“ADOPTION FOR THE RIGHT REASONS; an option for
permanency”
English will be the working language.
Wednesday 23
rd April: (half day)
11.45 hrs: Registration and lunch for participants
13.00 hrs: Maria Doré, Executive Board Member, EurAdopt: Welcome remarks from
EurAdopt
13.05 hrs: Opening of Conference
13.15 hrs: Nigel Cantwell: International consultant on child protection policies:
Intercountry adoption for the right children and the right reasons: the
elusive paramountcy of children's best interests
13.45 hrs: Laura Martinez-Mora, Principal Legal Officer, HCCH Permanent Bureau,
Netherlands: The Hague Adoption Convention celebrated its 20th
anniversary in 2013. Is it an effective tool in implementing an ethical
and transparent intercountry adoption system? What are the challenges
today?
14.15 hrs: Gonzalo Gutierrez Lleras, Director, Fundación CRAN, Colombia: Practical
experiences of working for the best interest of the child under the Hague
Convention
14.45 hrs: Coffee Break
15.15 hrs: Judy Ndung’u, Senior Assistant Director; Children’s Services; Ministry of Labour
Social Security & Services, Kenya: Transformation of adoption practices
15.45 hrs: Øystein Gudim, Director, Adopsjonsforum, Norway: Co-operation for better
ethics in adoption
16.15 hrs: Panel Debate
17.00 hrs: End of day one
19.00 hrs: Dinner at the Stockholm City Hall for participants registered in advance. This
dinner is sponsored by the City of Stockholm.
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Thursday 24
th April: (full day)
08.00 hrs: Opening of day 2
08.10 hrs: Lovisa Kim, Senior Administrative Officer and Social Worker, Swedish
Intercountry Adoptions Authority (MIA), CA Sweden: Post Adoption Services
in Sweden
08.30 hrs: Hermann Sæmundsson, Director of Department of Human Rights and Local
Government, Icelandic Central Authority – Ministry of the Interior, Iceland:
Short overview of the structure of the adoption system/procedure in
Iceland and Kristinn Ingvarsson, Executive Director, The Icelandic Adoption
Society: Post Adoption Services in Iceland
09.00 hrs: Mary Juseela, journalist and author, Sweden: The Great Homeland Tour
09.20 hrs: Coffee Break
09.50 hrs: Bitte Markstedt, Family Therapist and Anita Fryklund, Family Therapist, Duvnäs
Parental Support Centre, Sweden: The Adoptive Family; Challenges and
Needs
10.10 hrs: Rosanna Tampoia, Area Director Latin America, CIAI, Italy: Post Adoption
Support Provided by Adoption Organisations in Italy
10.30 hrs: Panel Debate
11:30 hrs Nyanja Nzabamwita Brodin, Founder of ISHAMI Advocacy for Children, Rwanda:
The importance of permanency
12.00 hrs: Lunch
13.00 hrs: Maria Larsson, Minister for Children and the Elderly, Ministry of Health and Social
Affairs, Sweden: Childrens right to grow up in good conditions
13.20 hrs: Nina Stenbom, Family Law Secretary, Social Welfare Committee, Danderyd,
Sweden: A practitioner’s reflections
13.40 hrs: Elsbeth Neil, Senior Lecturer and Director of Research, University of East Anglia,
UK: Adoption as a permanency plan for children in care: some
experiences from the UK
14.00 hrs: Anders Hjern: Professor of Paediatric Epidemiology Centre for Health and Equity
Studies, Sweden: Health and social adjustment of international adopteeswhat can we learn from Swedish national registers
14.20 hrs: Crystal Theron, Director, Le-Shika Development and Training Consulting, South
Africa: 10 years after the introduction of Long Term Foster Care in South
Africa
14.40 hrs: Heli Reinikainen, Project Coordinator, Social Worker Encounters Project, Save the
Children, Finland: Open adoption – a new opportunity in Finland
15.00 hrs: Coffee Break
15.30 hrs: Jesús Palacios, Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Seville,
Spain: Domestic adoption versus long term foster care: so similar, so
different
15.50 hrs: Panel Discussion
16:50 hrs: Angelo Moretto, Chairperson EurAdopt: Closing remarks
The conference will end at 17.00 hrs
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