Empowering migrant and refugee families with parenting skills 2018-2020 |
Aim and Objectives
The project aims to provide education and training to professionals and volunteers working with migrants and refuges in regards to parenting skills, health care of the family and psychological support.
Specific Objectives
a) Review of the literature on the needs of migrant and refugee families with children on parenting skills, focusing on factors that provide resilience, as well as those factors that disempower parents and children during refugeedom;
b) Develop a curriculum for nurses and other health professionals and volunteers, to enable them to provide support, knowledge and skills on parenting and child-family health care needs, under extreme and unique conditions;
c) Develop bite-size learning units for parents to enable them in improving knowledge in regards to parenting and support of their children and family.
d) Provide training for nurses and other health professionals and volunteers;
e) Use Khub to share stories from professionals regarding their experience and training refugee and migrant families with children on parenting related matters;
f) Disseminate the results and the outputs of the project through workshops, webinars, national seminars.
Coordinatotor
- Cyprus University of Technology www.cut.ac.cy
Partners
- Middlesex University London
- Edunet Organization Romania
- Doctors of the World Greece
- St. Augustinus Memory-Zentrum, Germany
- C&B SOC. COOP. SOC., Italy
Main results
- Report of review of the literature on the needs of migrant and refugee families with children on parenting skills
- Curriculum for nurses and other health professionals and volunteers, to enable them to provide support, knowledge and skills on parenting and child-family health care needs, under extreme and unique conditions
- Bite-size learning units for parents
- Training courses for nurses and other health professionals and volunteers
- Stories uploaded on the Khub to share from professionals regarding their experience and training refugee and migrant families with children on parenting related matters.
- Dissemination events: workshops, webinars, national seminars
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This project was funded with the support of the European Commission under the Erasmus + VET Strategic Partnerships Program. |