The II All-Russian online forum of Orthodox foster families will be held on November 26-27, 2024. The organizer of the event — ANO «Center for the Development of Social Projects». The online forum will be held with the support of the Foundation for Humanitarian and Educational Initiatives «Sorabotnichestvo» and the Center for Family Placement of Children and Church Care for Children of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Ministry.
Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service.
Supplementary parents — adoptive parents, guardians, custodians, foster parents, candidates for substitute parents, priests, experts in the field of foster parenting, representatives of specialized non-profit and Orthodox organizations are invited to participate. You can register for the forum at Adopt.ru.
The two-day forum will include plenary and breakout sessions where foster parents from all over the country will be able to share their experience of raising foster children in the Orthodox faith, discuss with experts the peculiarities of working with teenagers, children with disabilities, and talk about possible forms of support and the difficulties faced by foster families.
The program of the online forum will be posted on the website and in groups in the social networks of the Internet project «Adopt.ru». Registration of participants for the forum is available at the link.
Fostering family placement of orphans is one of the priority areas of social ministry of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Church publishes manuals, holds training seminars and workshops, operates two Orthodox schools for foster parents: the Center for Family Placement at the Staropigial Nunnery — Marfo-Mariana Cloister of Mercy in Moscow and the Orthodox school for foster parents «Umilenie» in St. Petersburg, and develops the work of Church specialists with children's crisis families.
Family Placement Center at the Staropigial Nunnery — Marfo-Mariana Cloister of Mercy in Moscow and the Orthodox school for foster parents «Umilenie» in St. Petersburg.
The Center for Family Placement of Children and Church Care for Children has been established at the Synodal Department for Charity. The tasks of this Center include assistance in the development of family forms of child placement in the Church, coordination of the work of church institutions for children and interaction with specialized Orthodox projects, as well as with guardians and foster families, with state guardianship agencies, training and certification of church specialists, inspection of the activities of church shelters and projects to help children with the creation of a database of shelters and projects, involvement in the development of a database of children's shelters and projects. grant and charity funds in the field of activity, creation of church schools for foster parents, creation of support services for crisis families.
News and stories about church social ministry are published in Telegram channel «Church Affairs» and in the groups of the Synodal Department for Charity in VK, OK, on Youtube channel.
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