The Fairstart project
The Fairstart project
Target group addressed
Priority area addressedTHE FAIRSTART PROJECT - developing competence tools and digital material for staff training in basic human care for orphaned children living in European orphanages Country of originTransnational partnership with the support of ECLevel
Type of training
Brief descriptionFunder: EU/LLP Project Lifetime: December 2008 – November 2010 The project’s goal was to offer an effective, easy accessible and useful training program and training material to the people taking care of abandoned children or children placed outside their families, in order to help them to give a fair start also to unluckily children. The programme and the material developed in the project contributed to improving the competences of staff giving care to small children placed outside their family and make them able to give these children a better start in life, no matter if the children are in an institution or in a foster care environment. The programme consists of 15 training sessions including a self-evaluation part, the FAIRstart game “FAIRship” and a Handbook with instructions and guides to the program. The Training session are: Training session 1: Introduction to the FAIRstart training sessions Training session 2: Understanding basic attachment theory Training session 3: What is professional caregiver behaviour Training session 4: The Hospital Model Training session 5: Insecure attachment in outplaced children Training session 6: How are we doing in our training? Training session 7: The secure base model Training session 8: Caregiver style and brain development in babies and toddlers Training session 9: Promoting relations work in practical tasks Training session 10: Designing family like groups for attachment |
Main achievementsMain achievement of the project was -A complete training program available at http://train.fairstartedu.us/; -Conferences around Europe; - A DVD with the training material available in different languages; - An educational game and an handbook available to be printed in the training section of the web site. EffectivenessEvaluationRelated documentationOnline learning platform: http://www.train.fairstartedu.us/ Handbook : http://www.train.fairstartedu.us/handbook.pdf Contact / InformationName: Bodil Mygind Madsen Position: project coordinator E-Mail address: sskabmm@sosuaarhus.dk Address (work): Country: Telephone: Key wordscompetence, carer |
