elefkaditi@uniwa.gr
Academic area
Social Work
Teaching modules
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Practice Placement with Supervision I & II
Brief CV
Stavroula Kofina is a Social Worker – Social Scientist with PhD Studies in Social Policy and Msc in European Social Policy. Her doctoral thesis was on “Understanding and addressing child poverty through the experiences and representations of children themselves”.
She works at the Special Secretary for Unaccompanied Minors of the Ministry of Immigration and Asylum in the Monitoring and Supervision Unit for the Long – Term Accommodation Shelters for UaMs.
Member of the National Mechanism for the National Action Plan for the Rights of the Children.
She has worked for 25 years in the Department of Social Policy of the Municipality of Agia Varvara, initially as a front-line Social Worker (Social Work with individuals, families, groups and community, child protection, social exclusion) and since 2014 as Head of the following Departments a) Social Protection and Public Health, b) Social Welfare c) Social Solidarity and Protection of the Elderly. She has worked as partner of the General Secretariat of Popular Education in training and providing support services to Roma and juvenile offenders and as a group animator for children and youth.
He was a Member of the Scientific Committee of the National Intermunicipal Network of Healthy Cities (EDDYPPY) certified by the World Health Organization (WHO) and representative in the WHO Working Group “Healthy Cities Environment and Health Working Group”.
Trainer of Trainers in Human Rights for children and youth (Council of Europe /Compass – Compasito). Trainer of Trainers in the empowerment of social workers (Building Competencies of the Social Service Workforce in Europe and Central Asia, Columbia University School of Social Work, SKLE, Unicef). She is also trained in dementia diagnostic and mental empowerment tools, risk assessment tools in child protection, empowerment tools for at-risk youth.
Instructor at the National Training Center of Public Administration in the academic subject “Social Protection”. Instructor of Field Practice for students of the Social Work Department since 1999.
Her research on social exclusion, child poverty and protection and other issues has been presented at international and national conferences and published as original papers in Greek scientific journals and in collective volumes.