Theme

Our conference will provide a forum to share and learn about the strengths and challenges of fostering in today’s world. The aim of the conference is to highlight best national and international practice in foster care.

We are calling for the following themes throughout the conference:
• Kinship / relative foster care
• Education and foster care
• Aftercare
• Ethnic minorities in foster care
• Attachment in foster care
• Quality and standards in foster care
• Addiction issues and foster care
• Mental health issues in foster care
• Taking care of the foster family
• Gay and lesbian foster care issues
• Promoting the positive contribution of men in foster care
• Contact issues and birth families in foster care
• Youth and foster care
• Family diversity in global foster care
• Behavioural issues in foster care
• Supports in foster care
• Disruption in foster care
• Safe care in fostering
• Disability and foster care

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