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After the kick-off event at the Centre Charlemagne at the beginning of November, the new series of events "Families in Focus" by the AG Family-Friendly City of Science is now moving to Aachen City Library at the beginning of December: On Sunday, December 1, the Foster Children's Service in the City of Aachen will be providing informal information at the Family Sunday in the City Library at Couvenstraße 15, about the prerequisites that foster carers need to bring with them, how they are prepared for the fostering relationship, what previous experience the children bring with them and which situations of origin they come from. In addition to the information for interested parties, the foster children's service will also read and show the little ones beautiful stories and pictures from children's books on the subject of "foster children".

"Families in Focus" is a new series of events organized by the "Family-Friendly City of Science" working group (AG) on family issues, in which some of these questions are specifically addressed in lectures and concrete solutions and tips for families are provided.

Further dates, topics and content will be added regularly and published at www.aachen.de/familienfokus. The lecture series is open to all families and single parents. All events are free of charge.

The "Family-friendly science city" working group

The working group was founded a few years ago in order to identify challenges faced by families - not only, but also in the area of universities - and to work on solutions through regular exchange. In addition to the City of Aachen, the working group includes Familiäre Tagesbetreuung e. V., Aachen University of Applied Sciences, the Haus für Familien der evangelischen Familienbildung Aachen, the Catholic Association for Girls' and Women's Social Work IN VIA Aachen e. V., the Aachen branch of the Catholic University of Applied Sciences North Rhine-Westphalia, Studierendenwerk Aachen, the Equal Opportunities Office and Family Service of RWTH Aachen University and the Family Service Office of Aachen University Hospital.