Description
The project's goal is to build a Children Day Care Centre (CDCC) in Silale to ensure social services home development and improve the welfare of children in risk groups. The project's target group is children at risk in the municipalities of the Silale district. The CDCC will not only address the physiological needs of these children, but also their need for self-expression. It will help form and develop their social skills and character. The project will also equip the first multifunctional sports area in Silale, introduce a new family empowerment service for risk group families, purchase equipment and CDCC performance measures, help develop life skills of children and provide inter-agency cooperation. This project will expand the scope of the CDCC to a socio-educational institution, with services aimed at improving the pedagogical care and extra curriculum activities of children at risk. Through actively working not only with the children but also with their parents, the project will help improve the microclimate in disadvantaged families and reduce the chances that these children have to enter into foster homes.
Summary of project results
National statistics show that not all the families in Lithuania ensure the welfare of children and proper course of child development and socialization function. These children lack the social skills that could enable them to establish and maintain friendly relations with peers solve conflicts in acceptable ways, participate in a range of socially meaningful activities. Therefor the need of children's social skills cultivation and children's day care centers services is constantly increasing. Project goal was to establish Children Day Care Center in Silale district, in order to provide social services home development, improving the welfare of risk group children. Children, who attend center activities, now have the opportunity to develop social skills and moral resistance to negative impact of the environment and to social - psychological counseling and emotional support from peers and adults. CDCC satisfices not on physiological needs of children, but also the need for self-expression, forms and develops social skills and character of children. Moreover, the Center provides a new family empowerment service for risk group families and measures, for development of life skills of children and inter-agency cooperation.
Summary of bilateral results