The theme is treated through 4 modules

Module 1: General overview

• Child Welfare: Historical perspective

• Children’s rights: Concepts and principles

• The child welfare system – a comparative international perspective

• Child abuse and neglect – understanding it scope and nature

Module 2: Policies and services

• Legislation and regulations in child welfare
• Community-based services for children at risk
• Out-of-Home placement for children at risk (residential care and foster care)
• Adoption
• Decision-making in the child welfare system
• Balancing parents’ rights with state’s interests leading to children’s protection
• Children’s voices in the child welfare system
• Child advocacy and child welfare

Module 3: Interventions and practices

• Best practice in child welfare and protection
• Interventions with family and children at risk (e.g, trauma-informed treatments for children and parents)
• Prevention – can we prevent child abuse and neglect?
• Family-centered practices
• Intercultural interventions with children at risk and their families

Module 4: Research

• The state of the child in the welfare system
• The child perspective regarding the welfare system – studying children as subjects
• Long term studies – from childhood to adulthood