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Project “Resilience* without Boundaries”
Funded by: Foundation ОАК ( Switzerland)
Duration:3 years (
from 1st June, 2008 to 1st July, 2011)
Leading organization: Institute for Social Activities
and Practices – Sofia
Partners:Association Center Maria – Gorna Oriahovitsa, Association
“Small steps” – Pleven, “Samariani” – Stara Zagora, ISAP – Pazardjik, ISAP
- Shumen
Main goals of the project:
- To provide a systematic
support for professionals, working with vulnerable groups while
promoting and developing the approach Resilience in Bulgaria and North
East Europe.
- To provide sustainability
of the practical application of the Resilience in Bulgaria.
Target groups:
- Teachers, pedagogic adviser, psychologists, headmasters, speech therapist from the municipalities of Gorna Oryahovitsa, Lyaskovets, Zlataritsa and Polski Trumbesh;
- Professionals from assistant professions and social workers from CPS (center for public support) - Polski Trumbesh, PH (Protected home)– Gorna Oryahovitsa, PH - Tserova Kouriya, SUPC - Gorna Oryahovitsa, CSRI - Lyaskovets;
- Representatives of OZD and MKBPPMN of Gorna Oryahovitsa and Lyaskovets.
Activities implemented by Association "center Maria" - Gorna Oryahovitsa:
- Trainings - six introductory training under the topic "Introduction to the Ressilience method", four building-up trainings under the topiс “Ressilience - new perspective on prevention" and "Ressilience - good practice";
- Mobile conference - radio show, two articles in local newspapers, Forum theater "Nothing's forever won, nothing's forever lost" with the participation of children from Theater club "Europe's citizens" from Gorna Oryahovitsa.
Achieved results:
- 76 professionals working with children have been trained (48 teachers, two pedagogic advisers, two headmasters, one speech therapist, five psychologistsm fourteen social workers, two representatives of OZD, two representatives of MKBPPMN);
- one primary school in Gorna Oryahovitsa implements the Ressilience method;
- Increased awareness of the professionals working with children and youth;
- Enhanced social skills for coping with various problems through the Resillience method implementation;
- Enhanced skills of the professionals for teamwork, established professional contacts among organizationas and institutions.
*The resilience is a new approach in the social, educational,
correctional and therapeutic work with children. The word “resilience” characterizes the
sustainability to hit i.e. it relates to the physics of the bodies. This word
gains different meaning in psychology – to the sustainability we add one
dynamic aspect – the person with trauma recovers and starts to develop
himself again.
The resilience can be treated as the ability of one person or social system
to develop itself or to grow under very difficult conditions. One similar
to this ability supposes: protection and defense, sustainability,
rebuilding and planning in perspective. It builds itself through a process
which continues the whole life in interaction between the individual
/social system/ and his surrounding. Therefore this ability changes
depending on the specific conditions and the stages in life. Never
everything is won entirely, never everything is lost entirely: in this
consists the realism and hope of the resilience. Another specific
feature of the resilience is that the accent is put on the shared
responsibility of all affected parties.
This
definition is formulated by the trainers of resilience Stephen Vanistendal
and Michiel Monseu
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