Submission Deadline Extended to: Wednesday, June 30th 2010 at midnight EST
The WorldForum 2010 Program Committee invites researchers, practitioners, service providers, youth and other interested parties to submit abstract proposals for oral presentations, panels, workshops and poster presentations.
Each year the International Forum for Child Welfare IFCW (www.ifcw.org) holds an international summit known as the WorldForum, which is co-hosted by one of its member organizations. The 21st WorldForum is being held in New York, USA and is being co-hosted by The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families (www.chcfinc.org), and Mentoring USA (www.mentoringusa.org). Last year, WorldForum 2009 brought several hundred delegates from around the world together in Jakarta, Indonesia where 32 different countries were represented.
The 21st Annual WorldForum will challenge the global child welfare community to think about its work toward achieving the “Millennium Development Goals” and “A World Fit for Children” in the context of three global trends that have already begun to fundamentally alter the child welfare landscape and change operating assumptions.
Over the next several decades, we will have to grapple with the effects of three significant trends. Demographics: Major shifts in population will profoundly reshape the world and the lives of children. Advances in Pediatric Neurobiology: New studies not only provide greater insight into the way children’s brains function, but also expand the deficiencies of childhood poverty to include bioethical issues as well as concerns of economic opportunity. Greater Understanding of the Effect of Information & Communications Technologies (ICTs)on Sustainable Poverty Reduction: ICTs must take into account content, language, literacy, education, and community and institutional structures rather than access to technologies alone.
Today’s child welfare efforts face new challenges, as unprecedented global trends converge in ways that directly affect the lives of children everywhere and alter the impact of current programs. It is in a climate of added urgency that the IFCW gathers experts from around the world for its annual summit. Whether these new conditions are resolved or exacerbated depends on our decisions today, making it vital that the child welfare community join forces to share information, re-assess priorities and plan for future action.
The Program Committee invites submissions on the trends mentioned above, as well as the following sub-themes and cross-cutting focus areas:
Theme: “A World Fit for Children: Advancing the Global Movement”
Sub-Themes:
- Promoting Healthy Lives
- Providing Quality Education for All
- Protecting Children Against Abuse, Exploitation and Violence
- Combating HIV/AIDS
Cross-Cutting Focus Areas:
- Poverty, Hunger and Nutrition
- Family Stability/Immigration/Migration/Mobility
- Minority and Indigenous Languages, Identity, and Culture
- Racial/Ethnic Disparities and Social Justice
- Active Participation and Empowerment of Youth and Families
A variety of perspectives and approaches is welcomed, including, but not limited to, submissions that offer critiques, case studies, policy critiques, cross-national comparisons, cross-cultural intersections, and models.
All abstracts will be considered on the basis of individual merit by the WorldForum Program Committee. Abstracts will be appraised in relation to the following criteria:
- Relevance to the global trends and four World Fit for Children goals
- Innovation of the proposed subject material
- Solutions and or Strategies demonstrating measurable outcomes
- Importance of the content to a multi-disciplinary, multi-national audience
- Clarity of the proposed presentation material.
For further details on the WorldForum theme, please review the Concept Paper.
Submission Deadline: June 30th midnight EST
Note
You will be notified by August 12th if your presentation has been accepted.
WorldForum 2010 reserves the rights to edit presentation abstracts and speaker’s biographies for brevity and space constraints.
ABSTRACT INFORMATION
Instructions
The person submitting the abstract will serve as the main author (the main point of contact for correspondence). Abstracts should not be longer than 350 words. All applicants will be notified, by email, of the results of the abstract evaluation process. Final acceptance of the successfully reviewed abstracts will be completed after the presenters have registered for the forum. Registration fees have been reduced for student and youth presenters.
Presentations will be in several formats: panel presentations, workshops, and poster presentations. Applicants are requested to identify their preferred presentation format. The Program Committee will make the final determination as to the presentation format for abstracts that are accepted.
Before completing the Abstract Submission Form, please save a copy to your computer. Ensure that you have complied with the Submission Procedure found in the Call for Papers. Once you have completed the form, hit submit, you will receive an automated response that your abstract has been submitted.
Abstract submissions must be received by June 30th 2010 midnight EST.
The official language for the WorldForum 2010 is English.