CP-PACK– Development of Supportive Packages for Parents and Teachers of Children with Cerebral Palsy(3-18 age group)
Project number: 510485-LLP-1-2010-1-TR-GRUNDTVIG-GMP

CP-PACK is a project financed by European Union within Lifelong Learning programme and joins partners from 6 countries: Romania, Italy, Denmark, Turkey, Greece and Portugal.

Short description:
Cerebaral Palsy is a disorder of muscle control which results from some damage to part of the brain. Functional deficiencies that develop to chidren with CP bring quite a difficult life and cohesion problem with the rest of the community. Therefore, the project has targeted both the parents and teachers of CP children. Training modules for them in EU standards will be the main output of the project and in this way knowledge and competences of parents and teachers of CP children will be improved. They will learn and share different approaches, strategies, services, good practices and assitive technologies for coping with CP children with other families&colleagues.

Implementation period: November 2010 – October 2012

Objectives:

1. To obtain reliable data on the needs of parents and teachers regarding CP
2. To improve actual approach on acceptance of CP children with actual abilities, skills and problems of them among family members and teachers.
3. To be acquired parents and teachers of children with CP vital knowledge and competences in order to assist these children in a right way at home and at school
4. To develop an information platform, web-based, providing support for teachers and parents according to their general needs
5. To contribute to raise awareness on decision-makers in education, parents and staff in education

Target groups and their needs:

1. Parents of children with CP
2. Class, branch and special education teachers
3. Psychological counselors working in nursery, kindergarten, primary, secondary schools, public education centers

Main project’s outputs:

1. Report on needs analysis
2. Piloting trainings for parents and teachers
3. Dissemination meetings
4. Valorization symposium
5. In-service training course
6. Web-site

Project's website: www.cp-pack.eu

Coordinator: Ankara Milli Egitim Mudulguru, TR, http://ankara.meb.gov.tr

Partners:
Instituto Politecnico Do Porto, Escola Superior de Educacao, PT
Pollo Europeo della Conoscenza, IT
Cerebral Palsy Greece, GR
Hacettepe Universitesi Saglik Bilimleru Fakultesi, TR
Centre of Professional Training in Culture, RO
Helene Elsass Center, DK

Contact data:
Camelia Popescu, project manager
, Mobile: +4-0788.889.343
Tel.: +4-021-3100815, Fax: +4-021-3100816

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
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