Advancement of Promoting Developmental Care in Belgium
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The Belgian Federal government promotes Family Centered Devel-opmental Couplet Care nationally. Since 2012 the Federal Public Services (FPS) has encouraged hospitals to train their medical and nursing staff in developmental care (DC) through educational contracts. Belgian hospitals with such an educational contract are offered financial support and four free DC conference days annu-ally. Moreover, the FPS assigned two DC coordinators to visit these neonatal units. From 2015 till 2017 NICUs training their staff in Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP®) received financial support by the federal gov-ernment. In June 2017, the FPS began subsidizing DC training, specifically Family Infant Neurodevelopmental Education (FINE) and Compréhension de Langage de L’enfant (CLE) in neonatal units had not didn’t receive financial support up to that point.
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