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Description
The project focuses on helping single parents to whom it brings information, advice, tips, recommendations to help them better orientate themselves in their new life situation. Practical solutions will facilitate and alleviate the difficulty of the situation. It also comes with civic initiatives aimed at naming and highlighting the need for help, the challenges and obstacles that single parents face in our society. There are up to 150,000 parents in Slovakia today raising their children without the regular help of the other parent. Single parents cannot rely on the help of raising children together or rely on a partner''s earning capacity. They are under psychological, societal and economic pressure. Many parents suffer from failures and self-blame. The enormous overload results in serious mental and health problems.
The project will focus on 2 areas: 1. Capacity building for single parents (sufficient relevant information and the ability to work with them adequately), 2. Civic initiatives focused on areas that affect single parents.
An e-learning platform will also be created, divided into sections: My health and well-being, My children, My relationships, My rights and responsibilities, My finances and future, My work and education, I am a child and this is my world. Inspired by foreign experience (eg https://mylifeandme.opfs.org.uk/), project promoters find it useful to prepare a clearer website with interactive elements. Guides parents and children through tutorials, advice, tips, lectures, interviews, stories - case studies, tests and recommendations on how to manage different life situations and what to do. Parents and children, hereinafter referred to as "users", undergo self-education in the first phase. Users will go through a series of steps to help them find solutions to life situations. The main target group of the project are single parents, children and youth, as well as elected politicians.
Summary of project results
The project We support single parents online had the ambition to be a stepping stone in creating a platform for single parents. At the same time, he set himself the goal of creating a framework document that would draw attention to the problems and needs of fathers and mothers taking care of children and households without a partner.
3 main activities were implemented in the project:
1. Creation and maintenance of the e-learning platform - the platform was successfully created. The project implementers filled it with content, including educational videos. They noted a high interest of the target group in registration. Thanks to the platform, several single parents contacted the One Parent organization with a request to provide follow-up services.
2. Advocacy activities - the result of meetings, negotiations and working meetings is the document We advocate for the dignified life of single parents. The implementers of the project used it to address the key actors influencing the living environment of these families. Already during the project, as well as to the present, follow-up meetings are held, from which proposals are made to improve their conditions.
3. Updating the website - www.jedenrodic.sk has been updated with new useful information for (not only) the target group. In terms of outputs, it is considered a good result that the number of registered single parents exceeded the plan (in the end there were more than 700 and new registrations are increasing even after the end of the project).
The above-mentioned document, as one of the results of the project, opened up other possibilities for the project implementers. Some will catch up gradually and will probably also get into legislative (application) practice. In the long term, the project was a "starter". Thanks to him, this topic opened up, and politicians, officials and the media became interested in it. Grant calls have been announced that respond to the target group of single-parent families. State representatives publicly proclaimed their interest in supporting this topic and solving the problems of the families.