Citation

Lidchi VG. Child Abuse Rev. 2007; 16(6): 353-366.

Affiliation

Centro de Estudos Integrados, Inf�ncia Adolesc�ncia e Sa�de (CEIIAS)/O Instituto de Pesquisas Helena Marinho (IPHEM)/Instituto NOOS, Rio de Janeiro Brazil (victorialidchi@terra.com.br)

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/car.1003

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In cooperation with an international partner, Brazilian professionals based in Rio de Janeiro designed a training programme in child protection to respond to the particular challenges to effective practice posed by the local environment and to address obstacles to its achievement in the existing child protection system. Training participants used a structured process to identify and address such external challenges and internal obstacles. The use of the framework included an exploration of beliefs held by Brazilian child protection professionals. The training was itself envisaged as an intervention opportunity for participants to promote "bottom up" processes of local systemic change. The programme aimed to provide training that accessed the experience of the international partner's "community of expertise", but mitigated the risk to effectiveness of a "transplant" programme that fails to engage with the surrounding social reality and culture. As part of a nine-country international training project initiative (ITPI, International Training Project Initiative by ISPCAN) sponsored by the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN), standardised tools were adopted to monitor and evaluate the training process.