“Children Outside Prison”, the year-long project in which COPE participated with Türkiye Çocuklara Yeniden Ozgürlük Vakfı (TCYOV, Youth Re-autonomy Foundation of Turkey), a COPE affiliate, came to a close in January. Founded in 1992, TCYOV is the largest independent non-governmental organization in Turkey working in the field of juvenile justice. Through its advocacy and fieldwork, … Read More
Year: 2017
Second Framing Analysis Workshop to take place in Naples
After the positive feedback from the frame-reflective analysis workshop on 21 May 2016 in Zagreb, a second workshop will take place 20 May 2017 in Naples, following the COPE international conference and network meeting. The workshop in Zagreb was an “Introduction to Framing as a tool in Policy Analysis”. The focus during this workshop was … Read More
Second Family Relations Expert Meeting organised by EuroPris in Finland
On 6-7 April 2017, in Helsinki, Finland, EuroPris organised the second Family Relations expert meeting. Lucy Gampell and Madelein Kattel, COPE Board members, were present at the meeting, which was a follow-up to the first meeting held in Zagreb, 18-19 May 2016. The Family Relations expert group comprises 11 experts from European National Agencies (Czech … Read More
MOOC: Implementing the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children
“Getting Care Right for All Children: Implementing the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children” is the title of a new free training MOOC offered by an International Inter-Agency steering group focused on child rights. For many different reasons there are children all around the world who cannot live with their parents. The UN … Read More
Social work and social rehabilitation in the Polish penitentiary system
From 3-8 April 2017 the Jagiellonian University organised their third Social Labor Seminar in Cracow as part of the framework of the Polish Social Work Week PSSPS, targeting students and professionals. The theme on day four concerned the penitentiary system in Poland, addressing questions such as: “Is there a place in the Polish penitentiary system … Read More
8th annual campaign “Not my crime, still my sentence” focuses on schools
COPE is pleased to announce that the recent schools-based fundraising initiative through GlobalGiving has been quite successful, thanks to the generous donations from supporters. Over $6,700 of the $7,500 goal has been raised, allowing preparations to get underway for the 2017 edition of COPE’s awareness-raising campaign “Not my crime, still my sentence”. The campaign, to … Read More
New publications from Families Outside
Families Outside (Scotland) published a number of new resources for families in 2016. Picking up the Pieces is a handbook for families of people convicted of a sexual offence, written with input from families themselves. This has since been translated for use in Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The Families Left Behind is a handbook for families, … Read More
Quality of Childhood European Parliament session
How to support children to cope with their parent’s imprisonment and enhance their potential to lead safe, included, happy, achieving lives? On 10 January, MEP Julie Ward and the Brussels-based Alliance for Childhood European Network Group invited COPE to co-organise a two-hour Quality of Childhood (QoC) session at the European Parliament devoted to the issue … Read More
Solrosen partners with Swedish Correctional Services to renew prison visits rooms
In the second half of 2016, Solrosen was involved in a study organised by a Masters student studying “Child Culture Design”, a new Master specialisation focusing on play. Her focus was on children’s perceptions of the visits rooms in prisons. Children at Solrosen took part in the study and created their own models of how … Read More
First Portuguese conference on children of prisoners
On 31 January, COPE’s Secretary General Nancy Loucks OBE of Families Outside represented COPE at a Parliamentary expert meeting and a national-level conference on children with imprisoned parents in Lisbon, Portugal. Nancy spoke on behalf of COPE about the network, recent European developments for children of prisoners and the Italian model Memorandum of Understanding. Among … Read More