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Child Development Course Vital for Staff Working with Children

COSECAM's Institutional and Human Resources Development (IHRD) program offered a five-day training course on Child Development, starting Monday 1st May, 2010, for 26 staff from its member organizations who work in the field of anti-human trafficking and sexual exploitation against women and children in Cambodia.

The purpose of the course was to help build the capacity of staff in membership organizations' who work closely with children who were victims of or are vulnerable to trafficking, rape, labor exploitation, and violence.

The course is also aimed at providing the staff with an understanding of the psychological development of children from the time that they are born until 18 years of age.

IHRD Program Officer, Mr. Em Poul, said that understanding the development of children was very important for social workers because they need to understand children's physical, psychological and intellectual development and how to take a good care of children. He also said that most staff members in member organizations do not possess this knowledge.

He said, “Most caretakers do not know about the psychological development of children. We just raise or take care of the children in a traditional and habitual way.”

One of the participants, Mr. Ven Savoeun, Director of Good Day Center of Healthcare Center for Children, said the subject was very new to him but he could absorb most of the contents. He said that he would apply the new knowledge to his work at the center.

“After the training, we have new ideas to work with children. We understand the children's flexibility and development and we think we can improve our work with them,” Mr. Savoeun said.

Mr. Savoeun also said that he would transfer what he has learned from the course to his staff members at the center.

Miss Phai Sineng, an educator from Domnok Toek Poipet, who also participated in the course, said that after receiving the training, she has come to realize that her habitual practice in taking care of children at the center didn't match with the theory she has just learned from the course.

Miss Phai Sineng said, “It's also a kind of a life experience for me. When we have children, we must not do anything which will later affect their intellectual development. For children at the center, we shall encourage them and try to understand their feelings and the sufferings they sustained when they were at home with their parents. Try to understand why they committed thefts or violence?”

The Child Development training is one of a series of training courses COSECAM's IHRD program identified during a training need assessment that was conducted amongst membership organizations in order to build the capacity of their staff members.

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