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: 

  1. To provide a systematic support for professionals, working with vulnerable groups while promoting and developing the approach Resilience in Bulgaria and North East Europe.
  2. To provide sustainability of the practical application of the Resilience in Bulgaria.

Activities of the project:

  1. Creation of a functioning Resource Resilience Center .
  2. Internet page and bulletin on Resilience.
  3. 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.
  4. Development and publishing of handbooks on prevention from violence for children and teachers.
  5. Piloting of programs for prevention from violence in 3 schools in Shumen, Gorna Oriahovitsa and Pazardjik.
  6. Two practical internships in Switzerland.
  7. Exploring the cases in the bosom of Resilience.
  8. Supervisions and intervision groups for specialists and groups of trainers.
  9. Lobbying for changes in the system “care for children in risk”.
  10. 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..
  1. Accomplished practical application of the approach Resilience in 3 schools in Shumen, Gorna Oriahovitsa and Pazardjik.
  2. 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


 

 

                               ProjectSupport 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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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