Chairperson will open the floor for discussion covering following areas:
What are the distinctive contributions of family-centered program models in health care and social services?
How does a family-centered approach change conventional program design and implementation strategies?
What are the challenges/obstacles to establishing family-centred services in both health care and social support environments?
What good practice lessons are emerging from country experience with using family-centered models to reach large numbers of vulnerable children?
What can be done for children whose families are not capable of providing appropriate protection and care?
How can wide implementation of family-centered approaches most effectively be enabled by influential stakeholders? Who needs to do what, in order to move this agenda forward nationally and globally?
What key gaps in knowledge about family-centered approaches remain, and how could these best be tackled through research?
