OBJECTIVE
To promote the knowledge and analysis and encourage exchange on national experiences, considering the best models and practices of foster care, in the framework of the development of comprehensive child protection systems.
Specific goals
- To provide the actors that work for the wellbeing of children with an opportunity to meet and to reflect on, assess and analyse the situation of children separated from their families and the existing mechanisms for the protection and exercise of their rights.
- To offer access to scientific evidence, to the best standards for the practices regarding the right of children to live in a family, and to the foster care and other alternative care models, all within the framework of the creation and reform of the Comprehensive Child Protection Systems.
- To better know and understand the relevance of the global strategies that intend to achieve the implementation of the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, identifying those aspects that, at a national level, contribute to the effective protection of the rights of the child.
- To bolster the analytic abilities of the professionals and technicians that work in the field of childhood and to promote the development of innovative solutions in complex, intersectorial areas of childhood, such as that of children separated from their families.
- To identify national tendencies, models and practices regarding foster care and to accompany the incorporation of new theoretical views and practices in order to strengthen and enshrine them.
- To identify compared models and practices already enshrined in other countries of the region as well as those in the process of consolidation, in order to extract guidelines that can boost the previously existing national models and other models that are in the design phase.
- To know and analyse the contents and the scope of the National Reform Roadmap for the deinstitutionalisation and alternative care of Mexican children.
- To identify short-, medium- and long-term actions to be taken in the production process of the National Reform Roadmap for the deinstitutionalisation and alternative care of Mexican children, in order to establish the necessary initiatives to create the public policy required to achieve the Roadmap’s goals.
SEMINAR
ABOUT THE OFFICE OF THE OMBUDSPERSON IN THE STATE OF GUANAJUATO AND THE SYSTEM FOR THE INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE FAMILY (DIF) OF THE STATE OF GUANAJUATO
The Office of the Ombudsperson in the State of Guanajuato was created on October 6, 1992, thanks to the “Law that creates the Office of the Ombudsperson in the State of Guanajuato”, and started functioning on May 3, 1993. It is a public, decentralised organism with autonomy and its own legal personality, as per the Law for the Protection of Human Rights in the State of Guanajuato of September 26, 2000.
Its main goals are to protect, defend, promote, study and popularise human rights and to boost a culture that respects them. To achieve its objectives, the Office receives complaints regarding administrative acts or omissions by state or municipal servants that violate human rights.
The DIF System was created on September 19, 1986, through Law Decree 51, “Law on the State’s Social Assistance System”. The DIF is a a public, decentralised organism with autonomy and its own legal personality, as per the mentioned Law.
Its objectives are to promote social assistance, the provision of social assistance services and the promotion of the systematic interrelation of actions carried out on the matter by public and private entities.