{"id":23943,"date":"2025-09-17T18:36:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/?p=23943"},"modified":"2025-09-17T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:37:10","slug":"hamed-farmand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/hamed-farmand\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamed Farmand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mfok7lr6-937ec4ba148d3e2f754df6ae46861928\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-mfok7lr6-937ec4ba148d3e2f754df6ae46861928 .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mfok7lr6-937ec4ba148d3e2f754df6ae46861928 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock member_tagline'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Affili\u00e9 communautaire<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-15fwi4j-3e26dd7a3e6fd8e38cc506a5d20ce836\">\n.flex_column.av-15fwi4j-3e26dd7a3e6fd8e38cc506a5d20ce836{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-15fwi4j-3e26dd7a3e6fd8e38cc506a5d20ce836 av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mfok8yfc-75c26aee3f18060b15aa001bd1cc3307\">\n.avia-image-container.av-mfok8yfc-75c26aee3f18060b15aa001bd1cc3307 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-mfok8yfc-75c26aee3f18060b15aa001bd1cc3307 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-mfok8yfc-75c26aee3f18060b15aa001bd1cc3307 av-styling-no-styling avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" class='wp-image-23941 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-23941 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hamed-7-300x225.jpg\" alt='' title='Hamed - 7'  height=\"225\" width=\"300\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hamed-7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hamed-7-1030x773.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hamed-7-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hamed-7-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hamed-7-1500x1125.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hamed-7-705x529.jpg 705w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hamed-7.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-nvfq77-03c48128eb4175b0f78fba0b293c6e27\">\n.flex_column.av-nvfq77-03c48128eb4175b0f78fba0b293c6e27{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-nvfq77-03c48128eb4175b0f78fba0b293c6e27 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mfok72y1-06af691b5b3ca32cd9ce0826795b6e19 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Hamed Farmand is a children\u2019s rights activist, educator, storyteller, and founder of Children of Imprisoned Parents International (COIPI). Born and raised in Iran, he moved to the United States in 2010 and currently resides in Montreal. His advocacy is rooted in personal experience\u2014his mother was imprisoned for five years when he was just six\u2014giving him a deep understanding of the emotional and psychological impact of parental incarceration on children. For over a decade, Hamed has focused on advocacy, education, and support services for families affected by parental incarceration, particularly within Farsi-speaking communities in Iran, and across the diaspora. Under the mentorship of Dr. Shervin Assari, he explored the psychological effects of parental imprisonment on children and studied foundational psychology at NOVA College. His work is informed by a strong academic background in child protection and social justice. Hamed holds certifications in Child Protection: Children\u2019s Rights in Theory and Practice (Harvard University), Resilience in Children Exposed to Trauma, Disaster, and War (University of Minnesota), and Advocating Social Justice and Change (University of Adelaide), as well as a MicroMasters in Social Work: Practice, Policy, and Research (University of Michigan). He is also the author of Missing Mum (in Farsi), a memoir of his childhood experience with an incarcerated parent. His life story and activism are featured in Remembering Contentious Lives, a scholarly book with a chapter by Nafiseh Mousavi (Lund University, Sweden).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affilie-e-s","category-affilie-e-s-communautaires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23948,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23943\/revisions\/23948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}