Child-friendly space project strategy seminar held in Beijing

On the morning of October 27, the "Child Friendly Space Project" strategy seminar was successfully held at the Beijing China Children's Center. The meeting was hosted by Chen Yang, the convener of the Child Friendly Space Project and the former Chief Liaison Officer of the United Nations Command in Liberia. The participants were: Huo Yujia, Minister of Family Education of China Children's Center, Zhao Zhonghua, former Director of International Save the Children (China), and Shaanxi Family Tang Faliang, deputy chairman of the Education Commission, Zhang Hongying, a former official of the International Programme (China) Early Childhood Parenting and Development Project, and other child-friendly space project experts and project principals.

This seminar clarified the nature of the child-friendly space project, the development plan for the next five years, and determined the project concept, development strategy and path. Huo Yujia pointed out that a child-friendly space should reflect a child's perspective, improve child presence, care for children through resource flows, and emphasize the development concept of "experience is learning, participation is growth, and life is education". Zhao Zhonghua emphasized that children-friendly spaces should not forget their original intentions and take a purely public welfare line. Based on meeting the needs of children in the community and the masses, with the disadvantaged groups as the core, development projects should be few and refined to create a boutique brand. Tang Faliang believes that the essence of education knowledge of a hundred children at home and abroad should be absorbed, oriented to service groups, and the most simple and simple words should be used to understand and learn, and send childcare knowledge to families. At the meeting, Tang Faliang also shared his newly edited textbook "Experiential Family Education Guidance Service Lecturer's Manual" with the participating experts.

The child-friendly space project is jointly researched and developed by the Ministry of Education of the Home School of the China Children's Center, the International Plan (China) and the Hainan Chenyang Social Work Development Center. With physical space as the carrier, it integrates domestic and international resources in the areas of child health, child psychology, child protection, family education, etc., and provides professional services for children and families aged 0-6. The space has standard operating and operating models that are replicable, sustainable and monitorable. The child-friendly space project has been in trial operation in Quzhou, Hainan Province for seven months, and has guided and solved the practical problems encountered by community families in educating their children. It has greatly reduced the anxiety of residents in educating their children and helped build children. The growing community support system has cultivated a sense of social integration and security for children in distress, and has been recognized by the Hainan Provincial Department of Civil Affairs and the Provincial Women's Federation. At present, the large-scale replication of the project has entered the stage of substantial progress.

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