Preventive Social Work in Russia and Europe/St. Petersburg (Russia)

November 10, 2008

to

November 12, 2008

St. Petersburg State University
The International Centre of Social Services Studies

with support of the University of Bielefeld (Germany), the University of Helsinki (Finland), the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Germany, Agency in St.Petersburg), the The Committee on Labour and Social Affair of St.Petersburg and the The Committee on Labour and Social Affair of Leningrad Oblast

welcomes to the International Conference “Preventive Social Work in Russia and Europe”
on November, 10-12, 2008 in St.Petersburg

The Conference provides a forum for involving professionals and academics in innovative discussion on theory and practice of social work. Its overall aim is to identify how the needs of a wide range of societies can be met through the generation of new knowledge, concepts and models in preventive social work. In doing so, the Conference focuses on:

• enhancing the development of knowledge, skills and experience of preventive social work;
• shaping organizational changes and new governance and non-governance processes of welfare systems;
• promoting a comparative approach to the analysis of preventive social work;
• analyzing quality criteria and reflecting on best practice of preventive social work with different clients groups;
• encouraging the international dissemination and exchange of information on significant developments in this field.

More information:

St. Petersburg State University
The International Centre of Social Services Studies
Contact (tel/fax):  007 812 2746054      
icasss@soc.pu.ru,         icasss@mail.ru
Coordinator Assoc. Professor Dr. Olga Borodkina
Secretary Yulia Victorova

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