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International Child Welfare Training and Consultation

Because of our long-standing ties to Russia, we were asked to partner once again with Russia’s child welfare professionals by offering training and support as they find new ways to improve the lives of Russia’s orphaned and abandoned children. Child welfare advocates are now faced with significant challenges in managing Russia’s newly-created child welfare system and adequately supporting the children in their care.

All professionals who administer these child welfare services must be properly trained to ensure that the complex social, educational, medical and emotional needs of the children (who have experienced loss and trauma) are met with compassion and effectiveness under this new foster/adoption system.

The training that MAPS has begun providing in Murmansk (which we hope will be followed in other regions) offers professionals and foster/adoptive families the tools and resources to help children weather challenges and to help ensure successful transition from orphanage to family life.

We are proud to include the International Foster Care Training Program as our top humanitarian aid priority in Russia during the next two years. Seed support is needed for curriculum creation, translation fees, material development and acquisition, professional staff support, travel expenses, and international coordination and management.