The
Foundation for Social Welfare Services is organising a three-day intensive
Training on Intercountry Adoptions for our professional team in charge of
adoption services at Agenzija Appogg our Accredited Agency within FSWS led by
CEO Alfred Grixti. Experts at International Social Service are currently
in Malta to deliver the training to our professional team. This is an
investment for our families and for those seeking to adopt too! Our
International Relations and Research Department together with our Training
Department have worked hard for this to happen! #weinvest #wecare #wearethereforyou
FSWS is a member of the ISS network and is also represented on
the Governing Board by the CEO Alfred Grixti.
Line up of Experts
Lisa Robinson
Lisa is a lawyer specialising in child protection. Since
2016, she has worked as a Child Rights Specialist with International Social
Services / International Reference Centre (ISS/IRC). Here, Lisa has worked on a
number of rights and policy issues in the fields of alternative care and
adoption, on the needs of migrant and refugee children, and on children’s
rights issues arising out of assisted reproductive technologies. Lisa’s work
with ISS/IRC has included providing training to government officials in
developing countries, and acting as a representative on multi-stakeholder
groups. Lisa also works as a lecturer in the faculties of law at the University
of Panthéon-Assas and the University of CergyPontoise in France, and has
recently done some work with the OECD relating to protecting children in an
online environment.
Sandrine Pépit
Sandrine Pépit is a jurist specialising in human rights and
family law and she has a University Diploma on the theory of attachment. She
has considerable expertise in the field of intercountry adoption. After having
worked for the Central Authority of Quebec, she participated in the drafting of
the Guide to Good Practices Nº2 and in the organisation of the 2010 Special
Commission of the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private
International Law. For more than six years, she has worked for a public
adoption accredited body. Since September 2018, she is the director of ISS
France and she is running the hotline for missing children in France.
Jimmy Messineo
Jimmy Messineo is a jurist specialised in international family
law. He joined the ISS team as a children’s rights specialist in 2019. He
has a wealth of experience on intercountry adoption issues gained at the French
public accredited body, Agence Française de l’Adoption where he
worked for 4 years; and at the French Embassy in Haiti where he worked for two
years as a children’s rights and adoption officer. He also has concrete
experience in terms of preparation and support to potential adoptive parents
and on technical assistance to the authorities of countries of origin in their
reform of the child protection system and the implementation of the 1993 Hague
Convention.
