|
Project “Resilience*
without boundaries”
Funded by: Foundation ÎŔĘ ( 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.
Activities of
the project:
- Creation of a functioning
Resource Resilience Center .
- Internet page and
bulletin on Resilience.
- Training of specialists:
- 36 introductory and
supporting trainings for inter – disciplinary teams in Sofia, Gorna Oriahovitsa,
Shumen, Pazardjik, Stara Zagora, Pleven;
- 7 introductory trainings
on Resilience of the teams of the Complex for social services for children
and families;
- 4 trainings for the
application of the approach Resilience while working with children,
victims of violence;
- 2 international
trainings;
- Supporting trainings for
the team of trainers.
- Development and
publishing of handbooks on prevention from violence for children and
teachers.
- Piloting of programs for
prevention from violence in 3 schools in Shumen, Gorna Oriahovitsa and
Pazardjik.
- Two practical internships
in Switzerland.
- Exploring the cases in
the bosom of Resilience.
- Supervisions and
intervision groups for specialists and groups of trainers.
- Lobbying for changes in
the system “care for children in risk”.
- Promotion of Resilience
in Bulgaria and of the project results.
Expected
results:
- Held 52 trainings which
will increase the professional competency of the multi-disciplinary
teams in more than 10 towns..
- Accomplished practical
application of the approach Resilience in 3 schools in Shumen, Gorna Oriahovitsa and
Pazardjik.
- Accomplished sustainability
and practical application of the Resilience in Bulgaria.
Achieved
activities on the project from the team of the Center Maria until now:
- Participation in the work
meeting of the coordinators from the country in Pazardjik;
- Participation in training
on Resilience in Sofia;
- Participation in training
on intervision in Sofia
- Seminar and work meeting
of the coordinators from the country in Velingrad;
- Work meeting of the
coordinators in Shumen;
- Organized and
accomplished basic training of specialists, who work with children in
Gorna Oriahovitsa;
- Organized and
accomplished follow up training of specialists, who work with children
in Gorna Oriahovitsa
- Created group for
intervision from the trained specialists in Gorna Oriahovitsa and
Lyaskovets
*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
Project: „Support of victims of domestic violence”
Funded by:
Bulgarian fond for women on
Program “Life without violence”
Duration: 6 months (1st November, 2009 – 30th April, 2010)
Main goal: Providing of protected environment and
effective support of women – victims of domestic violence.
Activities:
The psychological and social
consulting for coping with psycho traumas of women -victims of domestic violence
will be achieved every week on schedule in the consulting office of Center
Maria by a trained member of its team with 6 years experience in consulting
women, victims of violence.
The legal advising for the
applying of article 5 from the Law for protection from domestic violence
will be achieved every week on schedule in the consulting office of Center
Maria by a lawyer
with 6 years experience in consulting women, victims of
violence.
Promotion of Open telephone line for easy
access to consulting aid and information for women, experienced violence
who using the telephone line could stay anonymous:
Via Preparation and printing
of 250 stickers with data including
the telephone line, working hours, coordinates of Center Maria and the
consulting services which we provide for women, victims of violence, and
250 business cards of the regional police inspectors from the police
stations in Gorna Oriahovitsa
and Lyskovets with details of
their working hours.
The stickers and the business
cards will be printed on the first month from the execution of the project
and will be disseminated by the regional police inspectors and
volunteers. The stickers will be
placed in the city transportation in the institutions and public places.
In the monthly programs of the
cable radio “Minutes for Center Maria”
Training of volunteers for
work on the open telephone line will be achieved by a trainer from the team
of Center Maria during the first two months of the project (total 16 training hours). The training will be held in the training room of
Center Maria.
Weekly team meetings for
discussions of specific cases.
Internal monitoring of the
activities of the project will be achieved on a monthly basis by the
coordinator of the project according to preliminary prepared plan for
observation and evaluation.
Media campaign in connection
with the 16 world days against the violence over women:
Two broadcasts on the
municipal cable radio in the rubric “Minutes for Center Maria”;
Two publications in the
regional newspapers “Ustrem” and “Sedmitsata”;
Interview via the cable
television “Videosat” – Channel “Rahovets”
The media campaign will be
achieved in the period between 25th November and 10th
December, 2009.
Expected results:
Provided consulting help,
support and protection of women, who are in actual situation of violence;
Increased level of public
awareness for the problems of domestic violence and improved access to
information and giving the right for informed choice.
Reinforcement of the
professional and institutional capacity of Center Maria for work on cases
of domestic violence and in solving of important public problems in
partnership with the local authority, state institutions and NGOs.
Providing publicity of the
goals, tasks, activities and the results from the work on the project and
of the provided financial support for their accomplishment.
Project “ The prevention – effective counteraction of the
traffic of women and children “
Funded by: Foundation for Reform
in Local Government in partnership with Foundation Eco Community- operator
of Fund for NGOs – Bulgaria - FINANCIAL MECHANISM OF THE
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC SPACE
Duration: 8 months ( 1st November, 2009 – 30th
June, 2010)
General Goal: To limit the risk
for trafficking of women and children from five municipalities from the
district of Veliko Tarnovo
Specific
goals):
·
1. Enrichment of the knowledge of
children, young people and women in risk for their rights and building of
skills for counteraction to the ways for involving in traffic.
·
2. Increasing of the capacity of the
specialists from the mass schools and institutions for working on the
prevention of the traffic of women and children.
·
3. Increasing of the awareness and
sensitivity of the society on the problem of traffic of people and its
involving in specific activities on the problem.
·
4.
To achieve effective monitoring on the application and execution of
the Program of Center Maria for prevention from the traffic in the small
settlements of the district of Veliko Tarnovo.
5. To develop the capacity of Center Maria
in the management of projects with over district character in solving of
the important society problems.
Target groups:
Unemployed young women from
the small settlements of 5 municipalities in the district of Veliko Tarnovo;
Pedagogues, psychologists,
pedagogical advisors, social workers from schools and social institutions
in the municipalities of: Gorna Oriahovitsa, Lyaskovets, Polski Trambesh, Zlataritsa, Strazhitsa;
Children and youth aged from
10 to 18, trainees in the elementary and high schools of the five
municipalities;
Youth, raised and trained in
institutions from the district of Veliko Tarnovo.
Main activities:
1. Work meetings on the project in the
five municipalities from the district of Veliko Tarnovo.
2. Training on prevention from
the traffic of women and children in five municipalities from the district
of Veliko Tarnovo(Gorna Oriahovitsa, Lyaskovets, Polski Trambesh, Zlataritsa, Strazhitsa):
-
Children and
youth from the elementary and high schools;
-
Youth from
social institutions;
-
Pedagogues,
pedagogical advisors, psychologists and social workers;
-
Unemployed
young women.
1.
Informational
campaign.
2.
Final round table
on the problems of traffic of people.
5. Internal monitoring on the activities of
the project
Expected results:
Trained 288 young people and specialists from
institutions, students and unemployed young women from five municipalities
of the district of Veliko Tarnovo
on prevention from the traffic of women and children;
Increased level of informing of students from mass
schools, of youth, raised in institutions and of women from risk groups
regarding the potential risks for involving into traffic;
Probation of preventive training program in 9 mass
schools and two social institutions from three of the municipalities on the
territory of Veliko Tarnovo district, which agreed to include in their
educational plans classes on prevention from the traffic of women and
children.
Created effective system for monitoring of the
work on prevention from traffic in educational and social institutions in
five municipalities from the district of Veliko Tarnovo.
Built network of professionals in five of the
municipalities from Veliko Tarnovo
district, which will coordinate the work on prevention from traffic in the
small settlements in the district of Veliko Tarnovo.
Increased level of public awareness on the
problems f traffic of people: five radio broadcasts, three publications in
local and regional newspapers, issued 3000 booklets, 150 posters, 600
brochures; updating of the internet site of the Association Center Maria.
Increased influence of the civil society on
decision making on local level regarding problems f the present day.
Reinforcement of the
professional and the institutional capacity of Center Maria in management
of project with over district character in solving of important public
problems
|
