Azores Commissioners' Office for Children promoted training to improve "quality of intervention" of CPCJ in the Region - Communication

Secretaria Regional da Saúde e Segurança Social

The Regional Secretariat for Health and Social Security, through the Azores Commissioner's for Childhood (CAI), promoted this week the initial training initiative "Principles and management of the intervention of child and youth protection commissions," which took place in Ponta Delgada.

Nearly two dozen professionals from the Commissions for the Protection of Children and Youth (CPCJ) attended this training session, which took place at the auditorium of the Regional Secretariat for Tourism, Mobility and Infrastructures, bringing together participants from São Miguel, Terceira, Pico and Flores.

In addition to covering technical content, the 17-hour training was an opportunity for the sharing of experiences and different realities from various territories, highlighting the need for faster responses to requests made to frontline entities.

This initiative stems from the ongoing commitment to provide professionals within the Promotion and Protection System with higher technical qualifications, as well as in-depth knowledge of the Law on the Protection of Children and Young People in Danger, with direct implications for the daily practice of their duties.

Today, at the end of the training, the President of CAI, Emanuel Areias, emphasised that "the better the training, the higher the quality of CPCJ's intervention will be." In this regard, he pointed out that a high-quality intervention is "the best guarantee that no rights will be left unprotected and no situations will be left unaddressed."

With this training course, the CAI, in addition to complying with its 2026 Activity Plan, is starting a training cycle in different areas aimed at members and technical support staff of the CPCJ, in both restricted and extended formats.

It should be noted that participants made a very positive assessment of the training, both in terms of the content addressed and the potential impact on their professional performance, the functioning of the CPCJ and the improvement of protective intervention.