Description
The project is focused on comprehensive assistance to families with social disadvantage and the aim is to achieve the goal of children could stay in these families and don´t have to go to institutional care. Comprehensive help means socially legal advice, field work, psychological support and interdisciplinary collaboration with subjects that work with these families. Another goal of the project is to increase awareness of professional and lay public on how to help families with social disadvantage, for this purpose media outlets, handout and website with useful information will be elaborated.
Summary of project results
The necessity of this project is based on the experience of Respondeo gained from citizens counselling and dealing with OSPOD Mladá Boleslav, revealing the absence of complex aid to children and socially disadvanteged families. Therefore, the ultimate project objective is to ensure that socially disadvanteged minors could be raised in their biological families. To achieve this, specific measures were taken in form of a complex aid to children and their families, establishing functional interdisciplinary cooperation as well as informing both non-professional and professional public about possibilities of this aid. The project triggered tight cooperation of OSPOD Mladá Boleslav and other participating organizaitons, families were provided social and legal counselling including field work that was sought out the most. Families were also given the option to receive therapeutic support of a trained psychologist. All above mentioned activities are sustainable even after the project termination thanks to acquiring additional finances, and we expect them to continue in the future. During the project we worked with 14 families having 36 minors in total, 228 consultations (in person and via telephone) and 163 field interventions took place. Three interdisciplinary meetings were carried out, and interdisciplinary-cooperation-focused casework methodology was created, while continuous cooperation with other organizations was in motion according to needs of particular families. To raise awareness of this project and available help, leaflets were distributed, a website was created, and two press releases as well as four educational articles issued. The project contributed to reduction or elimination of sources of danger to minors. The families were not to deal with their situation alone and isolated, they could get a starting point and support in solving their respective problems. The families also had support of social workers, a lawyer, and a therapist at their disposal, which together with interdisciplinary cooperation ensured a wide range of available aid.
Summary of bilateral results