First Congress of Professional Social Workers, organised by the University Inca Garcilaso de la Vega in Lima, Peru

 

 

 

 

The foster care programme managed by Inabif and Buckner Peru was presented at the First Congress of Professional Social Workers, organised by the University Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. The panel on the presentation of the experience was in charge of two members of the technical team: Rosa Moquillaza Aparcana (Psychologist) and Milagros Espinoza Bazán (Social Worker), who were accompanied by Matilde Luna, who participated as a special guest making an introduction on the subject.

The professionals transmitted the experience of their work in this pilot programme and presented its guiding principles and the procedures of intervention that they carry out in relation with the call for, recruitment, training and monitoring of the foster families, as well as the inter-disciplinary work they maintain with the fostered child’s family of origin with the aim to rebuild and strengthen their bonds. The presentation was complemented by a video showing the testimonies of the children in foster care. These spheres of academic training are relevant spaces for the diffusion of the programme and the transmission of a human rights approach in the practices that aim to guarantee the right to community- and family-based care, such as foster care.