Description
The project intends to improve the quality of life to families with unfavorable conditions for a child’s development. The project will focus on creation of a new, innovative type of social services - a “Family Assistant”. The service will be available to families with children residing in Saldus region, Skrunda region and Kabile parish in Kuldīga region, where wholesome socialization of children is not ensured. Within the project it is planed to conduct a study “On collaboration forms, possibilities and needs of families subject to social risk and assistants to improve the quality of life of the local community”; to elaborate a programme “Training of family assistants” — selection of 37 assistants and their involvement in training, organization of camps and two consultations (seminars to family assistants); to ensure three hours of individual psychologist consultations to each family assistant. Target group: children, families with children and volunteers.
Summary of project results
The main aim of the Project „Innovative service – family assistant” was to form a new and innovative kind of service – „Family assistant” for families with children in where there is no full-fledged socialization of children and which are evaluated as dysfunctional with low level of social skills. The project goal is achieved - social service "Family assistant" is legally established and implemented in Saldus district municipality. The main project activities and results were: - conduction of study “On collaboration forms, possibilities and needs of families subject to social risk and assistants to improve the quality of life of the local community” - development of 40 hour training program “Family assistant”, - selection, training and consulting of 38 family assistants, - volunteer work of family assistants (3884 visits in social risk families performed), - 13 14-day camps organized for target group families with children (201 participants). The Project focused on two target groups: 71 families in which grow up 169 children from Saldus and Skrundas district, 38 volunteers, who mastered the basic knowledge and became the family assistants. Project was implemented in 15 places – 10 parishes of Saldus district, 5 parishes of Skrunda district.
Summary of bilateral results