ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, February 18th 2014 [ME NewsWire]
The Second Crime Prevention Conference continued its deliberations throughout its second day. The event, which is organized under the patronage of Lieutenant General HH Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, is being held at the Fairmont Bab Al Bahr in Abu Dhabi, under the slogan "The Family…Prevention and Protection.”
The conference, which is organized by the Abu Dhabi Police General Headquarters, represented by the Department of Social Support Centers of Abu Dhabi Police, featured two sessions that focused on motherhood and childhood. The first session, which was chaired by Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Salah Al Ghoul, Director of Law Respect Culture Bureau at the General Secretariat of the Office of H.H Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Interior, featured three papers. Johanna Lammi-Taskula from the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland, presented the first paper that addressed the Finish experience of investments in motherhood. The second paper, which was presented by Mariam Al Muntheri, Head of Studies and Researches, General Women's Union, Abu Dhabi, addressed ‘the national strategy for motherhood and childhood- reality and ambition.’ The financial consultant, Salah Al Halian, presented the third paper under the title ‘Investment in motherhood and childhood- How women invest their time to educate their children.’ He said that it is very important for mothers to invest their time in order to educate their children in the following fields: financial behavior; spending; saving; helping with shopping lists; personal budget organization. He also suggested that mothers should provide children with their own budgets and teach them how to invest. According to Al Halian, this helps children grow in a healthy environment, enhance their sense of responsibility and enables them to become financially responsible adults in the future.
The second session, which was chaired by Dr. Yousuf Alsharif, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Al Bayan Center for Studies & Researches, featured two papers. The first paper addressed the role of institutions in promoting maternity and early childhood development. It was presented by Mohammed Saeed Al Neyadi, Advisor of Strategic Planning & Organization Development, Family Development Foundation, Abu Dhabi. Al Neyadi introduced the attendees to the Family Development Foundation and its programs that aim to encourage effective maternity, in addition to the foundation’s success stories. He recommended the foundation’s programs that aim to encourage effective maternity at schools by targeting students’ parents and working with schools to attract them to the program and cooperate with government institutions to execute these programs that target both mothers and fathers. He suggested that such cooperation could count as training hours for government employees. Al Neyadi also called for cooperation with the correctional and punitive institutions, as well as social support centers, in order to target the parents of juveniles and victims of domestic violence and invite them to participate in the foundation’s programs.
Dr. Sami Abdulqawi, Psychiatry and Neurology Specialist at the National Rehabilitation Center (NRC), Abu Dhabi, presented the second paper, under the title ‘Psychological and social development of children and their relationship with behavioral disorders.’ A number of papers, which focus on family and children, were also discussed at the conference.
After that, the conference featured four workshops. The first workshop was presented by Lynne Peyton from the UK. The attendees discussed a number of matters related to investing in childhood, and set two recommendations according to what they had learnt during the previous day.
Samia Kazi, COO of the Arabian Association for Early Childhood Education (AAECE), presented the second workshop, in which attendees discussed a number of matters related to investing in childhood, in order to set two recommendations as a result of what they had learnt during the previous day.
The third workshop was presented by Dr. Geraldine Macdonald, Director of the Institute of Child Care Research, UK. The attendees discussed a number of matters related to group work and domestic visits programs that empower children’s growth.
Dr. Mary Young, International Consultant, Global Health and Child Development, Harvard University, presented the fourth workshop that discussed the role of institutions in supporting mothers to guarantee healthy growth for children. The attendees discussed a number of matters related to this subject.
The conference will conclude tomorrow. The discussion and revision of many papers will continue and will be followed by the announcement of the recommendations set by the participants.
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