Conference: Ensuring children’s rights to information and participation at Barnahus

We are excited to invite you to the upcoming Journeys End Conference in Linköping this November, focusing on ensuring children’s right to information and participation at Barnahus. Join us to explore our tools and results from the project.

As a participant, you have the opportunity to choose to register to participate on site or to participate digitally. The participation fee for those who participate on site is SEK 200 excl. VAT, for those who participate digitally it is free of charge.

The last day to register is Monday 4 November. Limited number of places for those who participate on site.

Programme

08.30 – 09.15 Registration
09.20 – 09.30 Welcome

Laura Korhonen, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Head of Department for Barnafrid, National Centre for Knowledge Concerning Violence against Children

09.30 – 09.45 Presentation: Journeys project

Save the Children Sweden and Irish Children’s Advisory Board (CAB)

09.45 – 10.45 Keynote address (online):
“Journey through Barnahus – a child participatory culture”

Laura Lundy, Professor of international children’s rights at the School of Education at the Queen’s University of Belfast

10.45 – 11.00 Movement break (coffee)
11.00 – 11.45 Presentation: The Child Liason at Barnahus

Introduction – Linda Jonsson, Marie Cederschiöld University
Practitioners’s perspectives – Helen Kelly, A.S.S.C. Youth Advocate Barnahus West Ireland and Elisabet Kjellander, Save the Children Sweden

11.45 – 12.15 Presentation: CAB toolbox, Child Safeguarding Policy and Children Feedback and Response Mechanism

Anastasiia Doroshenko, Regional Child Protection Advisor for Europe, Terre des Hommes Hungary

12.15 – 13.15 LUNCH
13.15 – 14.15 Presentation: Journeys App

CBSS and Irish CAB

14.15 – 14.30 Movement break (coffee)
14.30 – 15.30 Presentation: Journeys Child Log and Barnahus quality standards

CBSS, Bonigi, Barnahus Galaway Ireland and Irish CAB

15.30 – 15.35/40 Short break
15.35/40 – 16.00 Future actions: Role of Network and professional exchange

Olivia Lind Haldorsson, Senior Advisor and Head of Children at Risk Unit, CBSS

16.00 – 16.15 Closure

You can also find the programme in a PDF format here.


Project Journeys

Project Journeys is a two-year project co-funded by the EU through the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) program. The project aims to ensure safe and informed pathways through Barnahus, from referral to follow-up. The project partners include Save the Children Sweden (SCS), Barnafrid (Linköping University), Barnahus Linköping (Sweden), Barnahus Tusla Galway (Ireland), Bonigi, Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS), Marie Cederschiöld University and Terre des hommes Regional Hub in Hungary (Tdh).