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| Sunday, 30 May 2010 | |
 Nine of the most presitigious organizations studying the prevalence of the phenomenon of child abuse and neglect issues in the Balkan area – a phenomen which has a direct impact on children’s upbringing – are meeting in Tirana to discuss the progress made in preparing the largest epidemiological study on the subject ever conducted in the Balkan region.The Balkan Epidemiological Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (BECAN) is taking place in Albania as well. The Children’s Human Rights Centre of Albania–CRCA/DCI is the responsible organization for conducting the study in our country, with the aim to utilize the study’s results to influence policy-making in terms of children’s rights protection.
Albania organizes managerial meeting of Balkan organizations working on child abuse and neglect issuesNine of the most presitigious organizations studying the prevalence of the phenomenon of child abuse and neglect issues in the Balkan area – a phenomen which has a direct impact on children’s upbringing – are meeting in Tirana to discuss the progress made in preparing the largest epidemiological study on the subject ever conducted in the Balkan region.The Balkan Epidemiological Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (BECAN) is taking place in Albania as well. The Children’s Human Rights Centre of Albania–CRCA/DCI is the responsible organization for conducting the study in our country, with the aim to utilize the study’s results to influence policy-making in terms of children’s rights protection. The BECAN study could bring forth alarming results on children’s well-being in the region. Current statistics indicate that in Albania high rates of child abuse and neglect are prevalent. This is especially true considering abuse and neglect occuring in the home and at school, places where children’s well-being should be safeguarded. The meeting will take place on 17th-20th of May with the participation of partner organizations from Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, FYROM, and Turkey. In the margins of the managerial meeting there will also be held bilateral meetings with representatives of the Albanian government as well as professionals and experts that work on the child abuse and neglect study and prevention field. BECAN is a co-funded project by European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development and participating organizations. The research involves applying I-CAST questionnaires (created by the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect with the support of UNICEF) to a representative sample of the general population of children, aged 11,13 and 16 years old and their parents in 9 countries in the Balkan region. At the same time there will be a study on the reported or detected child abuse and neglect cases from existing data bases in the same 9 Balkan countries. Two days prior to 2nd Managerial Meeting the Coordinator of the project (ICH-MHSW, Greece) along with the Scientific Supervisor (Kevin Browne, an international expert on the CAN field, who actually participated in the process of creating ICAST tools), will undertake the training of partner countries’ representatives, in a two-day closed session, called Train-the-Trainers” Workshop. During the Workshop detailed instructions and specific guidelines on overall methodology of both the questionnaires and interviews based research and the reported/detected case based surveillance will be given, opting for a harmonized implementation of the survey. Conducting research with unanimously trained researchers and harmonized tools will help so that in the future CAN problem will be measured in a unified manner, which will produce reliable and comparable data. BECAN collaboration network provides news and information on child abuse and neglect research and prevention via www.becan.eu website. |
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