A mobile approach for socio-pedagogical work with families at risk
The publishing house of “Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen” published the book
“A mobile approach for socio-pedagogical work with families at risk” with author Iliyan Rizov – chairman of the “Co-Participation” association.
For many years, the author of the monograph, together with his colleagues from the “Co-Participation” association, has been developing and researching models for socio-pedagogical work based on a mobile approach. The aim is to reduce cases of abandonment of children and their accommodation in institutions, to reduce violence and insufficient care for them. The contents of the book include results of quantitative and qualitative research, examples from practice, certificates and analyses, through which the driving mechanisms for changing families on the way to improving children’s welfare are revealed.
FOSTER CARE SOCIAL SERVICE PROVISION
A Model for foster care developed by „Co-participation” Association and the Department for Child Protection-Varna (Language: Bulgarian)
The need to put forward our method of work is driven by the fact that although the presence of standards for providing the “foster care” service, the methodologies the different providers use, correspond in a different way to the standards adopted by the State. Undoubtedly, the difference in methodologies would not be the cause of our anxiety, as long as it led to the development of the service itself.
FOSTER CARE SOCIAL SERVICE PROVISION
A Model for foster care developed by „Co-participation” Association and the Department for Child Protection-Varna
The need to put forward our method of work is driven by the fact that although the presence of standards for providing the “foster care” service, the methodologies the different providers use, correspond in a different way to the standards adopted by the State. Undoubtedly, the difference in methodologies would not be the cause of our anxiety, as long as it led to the development of the service itself.
CHILD ABANDONMENT PREVENTION IN ROMA COMMUNITY
The deinstitutionalization process of children care in Bulgaria will be brought off if efforts for prevention of abandonment cases are made together with moving children from institutions to family based care. It is obvious that the stream of children to the institutions cannot be limited without a systematic work towards abandonment prevention. Nevertheless, this sphere still expects development, innovations and good practices.
In reply to the necessity to reduce the cases of children abandonment and their institutionalization, we propose a preventive model resulting from our continuous work in the Roma neighborhoods in the city of Varna.
THE CHILDREN IN INSTITUTIONS
Difficulties in the deinstitutionalization process for children deprived of parental care
All forms of deinstitutionalization show that the problems related to children integration process are many and the opportunities of social workers, foster and adoptive families to cope with them are too limited. Once incentive measures for deinstitutionalization have been taken in the recent years, these problems came in the foreground and search for their solutions more and more pressing.