{"id":5012,"date":"2019-12-19T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zadecu.org\/en\/?p=5012"},"modified":"2019-12-27T14:46:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T14:46:26","slug":"childhub-national-conference-in-belgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zadecu.org\/en\/childhub-national-conference-in-belgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"ChildHub National Conference in Belgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Within the regional ChildHub initiative, the Center for Youth Integration<\/a>, in cooperation with the Republic Institute for Social Protection<\/strong> and the Network of Children’s Organizations of Serbia (MODS)<\/strong>, organized\u00a0the Conference ‘Children in the Street Situation: The System. Experience. Cooperation’.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The conference was\u00a0dedicated to the system’s response\u00a0to\u00a0children in the street situation, with special reference to the United Nation\u2019s General Comment no. 21, the often traumatic life experiences of these children, the experience of the Drop in Shelter for children in street situation, and the need for cooperation from all actors in the system.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the conference, participants were presented with the success and results of the ChildHub Initiative platform over the past five years.<\/p>\n

The event was attended by more than 100 people, including representatives of institutions from the social protection system, childcare facilities and centres for social work, universities, and the civil sector.<\/p>\n

In addition to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and UN General Commentary 21 on street children, the conference also addressed ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences), and thus, Benjamin Perks’ speech from the TEDx event in Podgorica was presented to explain\u00a0ACE and offer\u00a0a reflection on life wellbeing. Additionally, a large-scale ACE survey conducted by UNICEF Serbia was presented, and participants heard a Case Study of one beneficiary of the Drop in Shelter for children in street situation.<\/p>\n

Attendees agreed that each system individually is not sufficient or capable of responding to the most complex life situations in which some children in a street situation find themselves, and therefore, the only real solution is a multisector response.<\/p>\n