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Doha
The Orphan Care Center (Dreama) organised a training course for social and welfare service and care providers, Qatar University female trainee students of the Social Services Department, and students of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.
The course was presented by Dr Wissam al Ded, consultant psychiatrist at Dreama.
The course aimed at raising the efficiency of social workers and service providers for Dreama children, and supports the development of the orphan child needs. The course also targeted achieving the best standards, procedures, policies and protocols to provide high-quality services for orphans.
Mariam bint Ali bin Nasser al Misnad, executive director of Dreama, emphasised the importance of organising regular training courses to raise the efficiency of workers and care providers for the fostered children, as one of the main objectives of the centre for the development of methods and projects that directly enhance the status of orphans and empowering them.
She said the manual of procedures, policies and protocols of the centre includes the ethical charter for the employees and specialists of the centre.
She said, “Out of the vision and strategy of Dreama and in accordance with the founding document inspired by the objectives of Dreama, which guides the work of the centre to contribute to the provision of a safe and stable environment for the targeted groups in Qatar, we have to develop therapeutic protocols to meet international legal standards.
“In preparing the manual, the team relied on international legal standards in the development of a therapeutic protocol and guidance from the American Psychiatric School and World Health Organisation (WHO) protocols.”
The team also conducted several brainstorming sessions, reviewing the sources, compiling information that is appropriate to the centre’s specialisations and main objectives, analysing the practical aspect with regard to cases of sexual violence against children and developing the theoretical framework that works to achieve the main objective of providing a safe and stable environment for orphans.
The therapeutic protocols of Hamad Medical Corporation were also considered for guidance.
Dr Ded stressed the importance of the course in raising the efficiency of the staff of Dreama and the training of caregivers on the rights of this category of children and spread awareness of the rights of orphan children deprived of family environment, at the level of the centre staff and foster families. She praised the commitment of Dreama to promote and protect human rights through measures and actions to raise the level of services and care for children.
She also addressed the therapeutic services for the target groups in case of child violence, and how to refer the child to other centres under the umbrella of the Qatar Foundation for Social Work, or to other stakeholders we deal with, pointing out that the manual also aims to identify the mechanism of work in the centre, in order to ensure confidentiality, credibility and application of procedures to achieve the objectives of the Center.
Doha
The Orphan Care Center (Dreama) organised a training course for social and welfare service and care providers, Qatar University female trainee students of the Social Services Department, and students of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.
The course was presented by Dr Wissam al Ded, consultant psychiatrist at Dreama.
The course aimed at raising the efficiency of social workers and service providers for Dreama children, and supports the development of the orphan child needs. The course also targeted achieving the best standards, procedures, policies and protocols to provide high-quality services for orphans.
Mariam bint Ali bin Nasser al Misnad, executive director of Dreama, emphasised the importance of organising regular training courses to raise the efficiency of workers and care providers for the fostered children, as one of the main objectives of the centre for the development of methods and projects that directly enhance the status of orphans and empowering them.
She said the manual of procedures, policies and protocols of the centre includes the ethical charter for the employees and specialists of the centre.
She said, “Out of the vision and strategy of Dreama and in accordance with the founding document inspired by the objectives of Dreama, which guides the work of the centre to contribute to the provision of a safe and stable environment for the targeted groups in Qatar, we have to develop therapeutic protocols to meet international legal standards.
“In preparing the manual, the team relied on international legal standards in the development of a therapeutic protocol and guidance from the American Psychiatric School and World Health Organisation (WHO) protocols.”
The team also conducted several brainstorming sessions, reviewing the sources, compiling information that is appropriate to the centre’s specialisations and main objectives, analysing the practical aspect with regard to cases of sexual violence against children and developing the theoretical framework that works to achieve the main objective of providing a safe and stable environment for orphans.
The therapeutic protocols of Hamad Medical Corporation were also considered for guidance.
Dr Ded stressed the importance of the course in raising the efficiency of the staff of Dreama and the training of caregivers on the rights of this category of children and spread awareness of the rights of orphan children deprived of family environment, at the level of the centre staff and foster families. She praised the commitment of Dreama to promote and protect human rights through measures and actions to raise the level of services and care for children.
She also addressed the therapeutic services for the target groups in case of child violence, and how to refer the child to other centres under the umbrella of the Qatar Foundation for Social Work, or to other stakeholders we deal with, pointing out that the manual also aims to identify the mechanism of work in the centre, in order to ensure confidentiality, credibility and application of procedures to achieve the objectives of the Center.
