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Description
The project proposal aims to provide support to children from vulnerable groups, including Roma communities in early childhood and their families to improve access to health care, develop parenting skills, improve the family environment, increase school readiness for children. inclusion in the education system, with the aim of reducing the transmission of intergenerational poverty. The complex integrated measures will be aimed at improving access to education, health protection and development of social skills for children aged 0-6 who do not attend / do not have access to kindergarten or nursery, or live in isolated rural / urban areas. and / or poor areas with a concentration of problems at risk of poverty, social exclusion and marginalization.
Specific objectives
• Creation of a complex of services (hub), providing functionally related services for education and care at an early age for the children from the target groups and their parents, including:
- Providing support for children in early childhood and support for access to education;
- Improving access to social and health services for vulnerable groups;
- Supporting the transition from a family to a formal educational environment.
• Engaging and activating families and the community to provide quality education and care in early childhood through a series of consecutive interventions; formation of parenting skills, health care, social and life skills, as well as the development and education of children.The main objective and the specific objectives meet and are in line with the objectives of the procedure.
Summary of project results
The challenge was to cover children from 0 to 6 from vulnerable groups and remote districts who do not attend nursery or kindergarten, as well as their families, in order to help them improve their parental skills, improve the family environment, increase the school readiness of children, improve access to social and health services and support the smooth transition form family to formal educational environment.
As a result of the project activities, 3 hubs were established, one fixed and two mobile, which provide individual and group consultations for children from 0 to 6 and their families. A team of 11 people was created to implement the project activities both in the fixed and two mobile hubs. The project partner “Centre for Regional Development - Roma” Foundation created a Methodology and 10 programs, which are successfully implemented in the multidisciplinary team’s work. During the implementation of the project 346 children were covered in various educational, health and social activities.
The project provided a complex of integrated measures for 346 children from vulnerable groups who had no access or did not attend nursery or kindergarten and helped them improve their educational and social skills through the project activities. The project activities helped the children to improve their Bulgarian language, provided them health and psychological services and assisted the parents in the process of applying for different state services. Working both with the children and their families, the hired experts managed to activate the communities and made them more responsible for their children’s health and family environment and improved their parental capacity.