Meeting | family homes: equal cooperation
Datum n.t.b. | Utrecht
How do you work with young people on life skills within family homes? How do you create a positive home climate in family homes?
Within family homes, family home parents have the role of educator and professional, this brings various challenges. From the Knowledge Center Samen Redzaam (Leiden University of Applied Sciences) we have been supporting the family homes with projects and research for years. For example, a practical life skills tool has been developed in co-creation with family homes, which is actively used within family homes. In addition, we monitor and investigate the home climate together.
In this meeting we would like to take you into our cooperation with and cooperation in the family homes from research and we will talk about questions such as how can we involve the parents of children from family homes? And what role do parents give their own children and how can you work with them?
Researchers Veronique van Miert (Research group value (N)full care), Nienke Veenstra (Research group parenting & youth in development) and David van Tol (Research group parenting & youth in development) of Leiden University of Applied Sciences will supervise this meeting.
Veronique van Miert be senior researcher and lecturer in social work. In her work she focuses on research into the living, learning and working climate. In addition, she conducts doctoral research into the professional actions of employees in the (residential)care
Nienke Veenstra studied Clinical Neuropsychology at Leiden University. She has been working as a researcher since 2023 and focuses on developing, implementing and evaluating practical life skills tools within family homes.
David van Tol has been a researcher in the project ‘ordinary life: Life Skills for special children’since January 2024. He focuses on the (further) development, implementation and evaluation of the life skills intervention for family homes
This meeting is connected to the theme: equal cooperation between youth, parents/educators and professionals.
