We hold "Yokohama Port Family Enlightenment Lecture" in 2019.

We hold "Yokohama Port Family Enlightenment Lecture" in 2019.
Foster parents are a "child system" in which children who cannot live with their families for various reasons are brought into their homes and raised as members of the family.
Currently, about 100 children between the ages of 0 and 18 live in foster homes in Yokohama. In addition, there are various motives of those who are working as foster parents and lifestyles such as child care and work.
Do you not think about child living in foster parent home, foster home together?
※"Yokohama Port Family" is a nickname for foster parents in Yokohama City.

Date and time Saturday, October 19, 2019 from 13:00 to 16:30 (opening 12:30)
Venue Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall No.6 Conference Room
Contents
　Part 1 from 13:00 to 13:50 explanation "about foster parent system of Yokohama-shi"
　Part 2 From 14:00 to 14:50 Lecture "What is Foster Parents for Children" (Department of Sociology, Meiji Gakuin University Faculty of Sociology, Meiji Gakuin University)
　Part 3 From 15:00 to 16:20 Experiences by active foster parents "Message to those who want to become foster parents"
Citizens interested in the foster parent system, 80 staff members of child welfare facilities, etc. (first come, first served)
Application Accepted on a first-come, first-served basis from Wednesday, September 11, 2019 (Please apply from the Child and Youth Bureau website).