Dreama forum mulls ways to enhance family stability
The event aims to integrate the children of Dreama into the community by living with alternative Qatari families
THE Orphan Care Center (Dreama) organised the activities of the first forum for fostering families with a focus on ways to enhance family stability.
The forum aimed at identifying ways to inform the children of their status, exchange their experience and ascertain the reactions of children in fostering families.
The forum highlighted difficulties and exchange of experience on ways to report and learn the reactions of children, break the barrier of fear for mothers when reporting, and working to overcome difficulties with a view to achieving family stability.
“Family fostering project at the centre is one of the most important projects,” said Maryam bint Ali bin Nasser al Missned, executive director of Dreama Orphans Care Center.
She added that the event aims to integrate the children of Dreama into the community by living with alternative Qatari families capable of providing varied aspects of care for those lacking such care according to specific conditions.
She said the families are responsible for the child’s care and education, stressing that the forum promotes efforts to upgrade the services offered by the centre to the orphan child and to train alternative foster families and specialists to support and develop the needs of the orphan child.
“Dreama is keen to implement its vision on how to make the children of Dreama have independent personalities, make them able to interact and integrate into society, in addition to self-reliance, by bringing them up in line with our religion, culture and customs of the society to become active persons serving themselves and their country,” Missned.
Dr Amani Yahya al Taher, consultant psychiatrist at Dreama, said the project (INFORM) is part of a plan for collective treatment for foster families.
Dreama centre has organised awareness workshops for foster families on the importance of informing the fostered child of his status.
The methods of providing psychological counselling to foster families vary throughout the year, including weekly individual counselling and monthly collective counselling.
These workshops have had impact on the centre’s fostering families.