FFP (Organisation for Families and Friends of Prisoners) and EUROCHIPS welcome you to:
Children with Imprisoned Parents
Exchanging experience and good practise
7 May 2010
Chairpersons: Kjersti Holden, FFP Counsellor /EUROCHIPS Board member
Lucy Gampell, EUROCHIPS Vice-President
12.30 Registration at Håndverkeren Kurs- og konferansesenter, Rosenkrantzgate 7
(Fruit/biscuits, coffee/ tea)
13.00 Welcome: Hanne Hamsund, Head of FFP
13.05 Prisoners' children: what are the issues? Alain Bouregba, EUROCHIPS
President
13.20 The Correctional Service of Norway: maintaining family ties.
Terje Moland Pedersen, State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice.
13.40 Let the children’s voices be heard.
• Children's expert groups. Reidar Hjermann, Children’s Ombudsman Norway
• Children’s Ombudsman’s Office as catalyst. Maja Gabelica, Deputy Children's
Ombudsperson Croatia.
14.15 Break
14.25 Experience and good practise:
Parenting in prison. Lia Sacerdote - Bambinisenzasbarre, Italy
Children visiting prison. Geneviève Moumal - Relais Enfants Parents Belgium
Kate Philbrick - KIDS-VIP, Great Britain
• Questions & Answers
15.15 Break (Fruit/biscuits, coffee/ tea)
15.45 Experience and good practise:
Working with prisoners’ children. Madelein Lofgren & Niina Koivuuma - Riksbryggan,
Sweden
Awareness-raising and training. Mario López & Kjersti Holden - FFP, Norway
• Questions & Answers
16.30 Break
16.40 New research
• Children of incarcerated mothers. Menno Enzinga — VU University Amsterdam
• Children of Imprisoned Parents: The Danish Study and European Perspectives.
Peter Scharff Smith & Sisse Straede Bang Olsen — Danish Institute of Human Rights
• EU Grundtvig Programme for Lifelong Learning: Supporting Parenting in Prison
• EU Framework FP7 Programme: Interventions & Mitigations to Strengthen Mental
Health of Prisoners’ Children
17.20 Closing remarks: Liz Ayre, Project Director EUROCHIPS
17.30 End
This seminar is organized with the support of the European Commission
