The Norwegian NGO Voksne for Barn invites you to an international conference with the following thematic focus:

How to develop good schools promoting children’s wellbeing and mental health

How to prevent mental health problems and illness in children at risk – the Second International Conference on Children with Mentally Ill Parents (COPMI 2).

We welcome anyone working with or are responsible for children and adolescents in schools and minicipal or specialist services.  We will present updated knowledge in fields relating to the conference topics, and show new ways of giving children an opportunity to develop strength and joy in life.

There will be parallel sessions both days where the main objective is to emphasize how we can 
Create a supportive and empowering environment in schools and the community for children and adolescents through:

• Research connected to health promotion and prevention
• Interventions – main focus in programmes and methods of social and emotional learning 
• Implementation of theory and methods 
• Experience-based knowledge 

A network meeting focusing on national strategies for the work on children with mentally ill parents (COPMI) will be held on 3 November.

Poster session - Interactive information exhibition 
We invite all participants to present posters related to the topics of the conference. You must register and pay for your participation before we can approve your poster. Load down the guidelines and the form.  

Press here to download the program for the conference. Some parts of the conference will be translated into norwegian.

Here you can download infomation about the speakers. You will find them in order of apperence.

The Conference
Date: 1st and 2nd of November 2010
Time: 1st of Nov. between 10:00 and 17:00, dinner 19:00
         2nd of Nov. between 09:00 and 16:00
Place: Soria Moria Hotell og konferanse, Voksenkollveien 
         60, Oslo
Price: NOK 3.100,- incl. coffebreaks, lunches and dinner (1st of
         Nov.)

The Network Meeting
Date: 3rd of November 2010
Time: 10:00 and 16:00
Place: Soria Moria Hotell og konferanse, Voksenkollveien 
         60, Oslo
Price: NOK 1.000,- incl. dinner (2nd of Nov.), coffebreaks and
         lunch (3rd of Nov.)

Hotelreservation
Single Soria Moria Hotel, incl. breakfast and VAT 
NOK 1.250,- pr night
         
1/2 double Soria Moria Hotel, incl. breakfast and VAT 
NOK 750,- pr person and night

Closing date: 4th of October 2010

You choose the parallels and make your hotelreservation on page 2 in the registration form. 

NB! You have to register the conference and the network meeting seperately!

Press here to download the overview of our arrangements and pick out the conference and network-meeting for registration