AMP and the Municipality of Matosinhos promote reflection and sharing of experiences around the theme
The Salão Nobre da Câmara de Matosinhos hosts today the Conference "Foster Families | The Collision of the Law and Good Practices", an initiative organized by the Área Metropolitana do Porto (AMP) with the support of the Municipality of Matosinhos.
The Vice Mayor of Matosinhos and responsible for the social intervention area, Carlos Mouta, opened the Conference highlighting the importance of the debate and the programme developed around this theme and its various aspects which include legislation and reflection on the needs of host families, but also by knowing the experiences lived by these families.
Carlos Mouta referred to the relevance of working days such as these in the sense of developing a life project as close as possible to the ideal for these children and young people, which may bring fundamental clues and considerations in the reformulation and recreation of responses.
This was followed by the intervention of the Vice-President of the Metropolitan Council of Porto, Jorge Vultos Sequeira, who began by contextualising the relevance of holding this conference. The 2018 reform, with the transfer and decentralisation of competences, made it possible to open up the collaboration of metropolitan areas in other areas beyond the four formally instituted competences. Discussing the alternative to the institutionalisation of children and young people, promoting discussion, in the academic, justice and psychology strands, on this sharp and pertinent topic that is the family foster care of children and young people is fundamental to understand where metropolitan intervention can be useful. "This could be a giant step for us to be educated and trained in the intervention of this priority sector that is the support to our children and young people", he concluded.
The event was also attended by the 1st secretary-commissioner of the executive commission of the Metropolitan Area of Porto, Ariana Pinho.
The approach of law and psychology regarding foster families, the empowerment and needs of families who take in children and young people and some cases of success in foster care will be on the table today in the discussions, reflections and sharing of this forum.
See here the full programme of the conference: https://www.cm-matosinhos.pt/servicos-municipais/comunicacao-e-imagem/eventos/evento/familias-de-acolhimento
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