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A Safe Childhood: Training day on interventions with unaccompanied migrant minors
June 20, 2025From 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
From 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Prior registration required.
Registration using this form.
In Spanish.
On Friday, June 20, the Ibn Battuta Foundation is organizing this comprehensive day of training at Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Madrid. It is intended for professionals in the field of social work. If you fit this definition, please sign up. You don’t want to miss it.
The conference seeks to create a space for thought and skill-building about the reality of unaccompanied migrant minors from a comprehensive perspective: legal, psychosocial and cultural.
OBJECTIVES
· Addressing the main challenges in the care and protection of unaccompanied minors from a rights-based approach.
· Providing professionals with legal and psychosocial tools for effective, humanized interventions. · Fostering coordination between social, legal and community role-players involved in the accompaniment of such minors.
· Increasing awareness of good practices and experiences in a wide range of contexts.
INTENDED FOR:
Social workers, educators, psychologists, legal experts, technicians from social entities, migrant intake workers, intercultural mediators and other profiles linked to the field of social intervention.
CONTENTS :
1. Legal framework for the protection of unaccompanied migrant minors
2. Psychosocial impact and strategies for emotional accompaniment
3. Challenges in the social and educational integration of minors
4. Practical experiences and real cases: analysis and reflections
5. Round table discussion: Coordination of social, educational and legal resources
METHODOLOGY
· Short theoretical presentations
· Participatory sessions
· Case studies
· Open debate
SCHEDULE
10:00 a.m. Presentation: Chaima El Yousfi
10:10 a.m. “Protection and inclusion of migrant children in the Autonomous Region of Madrid: Challenges and lines of action from the administration.”
Hermes de la Osa, Head of the Childhood and Migration Service of the Autonomous Region of Madrid.
10:30 a.m. “The rights of migrant children and adolescents.”
Patricia Fernández Vicens, a lawyer and expert on migrant children.
10:50 a.m. “Psychosocial impact and emotional support strategies.”
Elsa El Helou Hammadi, a psychologist at the Ibn Battuta Foundation.
11:10 a.m. “Intake, protection and accompaniment of migrant children and adolescents with no family members at the southern border of Spain.”
Ana María Souto Rico, coordinator of the Childhood in Movement Program at Save the Children.
11:30 a.m. “Experience of a youth formerly under guardianship.”
Annas Amiar
11:40 a.m. Debate
12:00 p.m. Closing event for the day. Chaima El Yousfi.
The day of events will be shown live on our YouTube channel.
OBJECTIVES
· Addressing the main challenges in the care and protection of unaccompanied minors from a rights-based approach.
· Providing professionals with legal and psychosocial tools for effective, humanized interventions. · Fostering coordination between social, legal and community role-players involved in the accompaniment of such minors.
· Increasing awareness of good practices and experiences in a wide range of contexts.
INTENDED FOR:
Social workers, educators, psychologists, legal experts, technicians from social entities, migrant intake workers, intercultural mediators and other profiles linked to the field of social intervention.
CONTENTS :
1. Legal framework for the protection of unaccompanied migrant minors
2. Psychosocial impact and strategies for emotional accompaniment
3. Challenges in the social and educational integration of minors
4. Practical experiences and real cases: analysis and reflections
5. Round table discussion: Coordination of social, educational and legal resources
METHODOLOGY
· Short theoretical presentations
· Participatory sessions
· Case studies
· Open debate
SCHEDULE
10:00 a.m. Presentation: Chaima El Yousfi
10:10 a.m. “Protection and inclusion of migrant children in the Autonomous Region of Madrid: Challenges and lines of action from the administration.”
Hermes de la Osa, Head of the Childhood and Migration Service of the Autonomous Region of Madrid.
10:30 a.m. “The rights of migrant children and adolescents.”
Patricia Fernández Vicens, a lawyer and expert on migrant children.
10:50 a.m. “Psychosocial impact and emotional support strategies.”
Elsa El Helou Hammadi, a psychologist at the Ibn Battuta Foundation.
11:10 a.m. “Intake, protection and accompaniment of migrant children and adolescents with no family members at the southern border of Spain.”
Ana María Souto Rico, coordinator of the Childhood in Movement Program at Save the Children.
11:30 a.m. “Experience of a youth formerly under guardianship.”
Annas Amiar
11:40 a.m. Debate
12:00 p.m. Closing event for the day. Chaima El Yousfi.
The day of events will be shown live on our YouTube channel.
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