Description
The project aims to promote social inclusion and integration into the labor market of the association's members, retirement and pre-retirement age people, to encourage their participation in provision of innovative social service to enhance availability of social support and quality of service in Jelgava city. The target group - 25 retirement and pre-retirement age persons. Project activities- elaboration of the assistant job description and responsibilities, training programs and business model development, family assistant training, social service recipients - identifying of the social exclusion risk families with children and implementation of the service, cultural events and conferences. Results of the project - a family assistant training program designed, 25 retirement and pre- retirement age persons trained, new social services developed and introduced and integration of persons into the labor market promoted.
Summary of project results
The future policy is aimed at ensuring Deinstitutionalization and social services according to the place of residence, so the country is gradually being introduced a new service – family assistant service, including these services also ready for approval of Jelgava City. Pre-retirement and persons of retirement age are socially excluded and low-income because their experience and knowledge are not used, difficulties in the installation work, at the same time, as the statistics show in 2014, in Jelgava was 1252 underprivileged families, of which 380 persons of retirement age. In the course of project implementation, combining JSLP human resources and the Pensioners' Society has an important contribution to the achievement of the objective of the project: 1. The complete pre-retirement and retirement age of 28 people in the target group who participated in the training process in obtaining new knowledge and skills; 2. Developed learning programme „Family assistant” and innovative social service module of the transaction; 3. And introduced as the innovative social service - a family assistant service to provide support to at-risk families with children; 4. 24 persons are integrated into the labour market, 11 of them are ready to provide their services from 01.07.2016 as family assistants, they will be prompted to enter into service contracts for the family the assistant to the provision of services; 5. 24 families with 57 children, 6 months as part of the project received different types of assistance, developed his social skills and abilities, have resulted in social functioning favourable conditions. 15 families have been improvements in the social situation, as evidenced by the survey results. The implementation of the project strengthened cooperation between NGOs and Jelgava City Council of the common social problems solving and decision making, as well as cooperation between the generations. The team worked for a senior social worker, a mentor, activities, the curator, project manager. Families with children with family assistants, learning new skills, searching for solutions, learned to live positively, it was reinforced family values. The inclusion of families were promoted employment-friendly activities.
Summary of bilateral results