The Family Care Authority (FCA), in partnership with NYU Abu Dhabi’s Office of Executive Education (NYUAD OEE) and NYU’s Silver School of Social Work, marked the commencement of 18 FCA workers from the Household Instances Sector who accomplished the Case Administration Skilled Improvement Programme. This programme equips individuals with the information and abilities to coordinate and ship complete social care providers tailor-made to the distinctive wants of households and people throughout Abu Dhabi.
This pioneering programme, the primary of its form within the area, has outfitted social staff with specialised, evidence-based abilities derived from world finest practices. By way of empowering individuals on this method, the programme allows them to ship optimum household care, safeguard the elemental rights of households and promote the well-being and resilience of the group throughout the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
H.E. Salama Al Ameemi, Director Basic of the Household Care Authority, mentioned: “TheCase Administration Skilled Improvement Programme serves as a testomony to the Household Care Authority’s (FCA) ongoing dedication to reaching holistic targets throughout the social sector, together with strengthening household cohesion, elevating the standard of built-in providers and constructing nationwide capability to fulfill the dynamic wants of Abu Dhabi’s various group. Rooted in collaboration with key stakeholders, the programme enhances coordination, advances the effectiveness of the Emirate’s household care system and furthers our imaginative and prescient via empowering and creating extremely certified social sector staff.”
H.E. Al Ameemi, added: “At the moment’s commencement marks a pivotal milestone, our collaboration with our esteemed companions at NYU Abu Dhabi’s Workplace of Government Training (NYUAD OEE) has offered us with an revolutionary framework that may proceed to strengthen and scale our affect. Collectively, we’re fostering a extra inclusive, compassionate and resilient group, one the place each particular person is supported, outfitted and empowered to thrive and contribute meaningfully to the group.”
Consistent with 12 months of Neighborhood 2025 and its theme, ‘Hand in Hand’, the commencement displays the Division of Neighborhood Improvement – Abu Dhabi’s imaginative and prescient to strengthen the well-being of impartial and secure households. Moreover, it additional reaffirms FCA’s dedication to unifying efforts that improve collaboration and integration amongst related stakeholders, supporting the event of an built-in social case administration system and enhancing responsiveness and high quality of providers offered to focus on teams.
Dr. Michael A. Lindsey, Dean of the NYU Silver Faculty of Social Work, mentioned: “We’re proud to accomplice with NYU Abu Dhabi’s Workplace of Government Training and the Household Care Authority in delivering a programme that permits practitioners within the Emirate of Abu Dhabi to accumulate the required instruments, information, and world views for efficient social case administration. This social work skilled growth program is the primary of its form within the UAE, and it displays our shared dedication to creating compassionate, evidence-based social care methods that reply to the wants of people and households. The programme serves as a mannequin for the way educational establishments and authorities entities can work collectively to create a sustainable social affect.”
The graduates have commenced their work throughout service centres in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Al Dhafra. They’re actively making use of their newly acquired core abilities in integrity, honesty, transparency, respect, accountability, care and compassion, important for efficient case administration, to strengthen the supply and affect of household care providers.
The coaching programme, delivered by NYU’s Silver Faculty of Social Work, was launched beneath a joint memorandum of understanding (MoU) to reinforce case administration effectiveness via focused skilled growth. The programme centered on important abilities, internationally recognised finest practices and a specialised emphasis on youngsters, adolescents, the aged and other people of willpower. As well as, individuals accomplished discipline visits to main social establishments in New York Metropolis, gaining publicity to world finest practices in social care and safety. This expertise facilitates the mixing and adaptation of worldwide experience to successfully meet the distinctive wants of the Emirate’s group
Throughout the ceremony, graduates celebrated the information and abilities they acquired over the nine-month programme, reflecting FCA’s steadfast dedication to selling a tradition of steady studying and information sharing throughout Abu Dhabi’s social sector.