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Comprehensive assistance in the prevention of social orphanhood and support for those involved in helping orphans PROJECT GOALS Prevention of social orphanhood. Modeling family values ​​and principles. HOUSE. Helping social orphans find a home and a loving family. BASIS OF LIFE. Prevention (prevention) of social orphanhood - assistance and support to parents - candidates for deprivation of parental rights and families of SJO. MOTIVATION AND SUPPORT – volunteer mentors and parents raising orphans. WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? 1. Prevention of social orphanhood Families and, above all, families with children face poverty, insufficient level of medical care, unfavorable social environment, etc. Today, 118 thousand families are low-income, 67 thousand families have been identified who find themselves in difficult life circumstances. More than half of young families (55.4%) consider themselves poor. The birth rate remains low, the tradition of large families is dying out, family values ​​are no longer a priority for young people, therefore the number of marriages among young people is decreasing, and there is no effective system for preventing the emergence of crisis families. Today, such a sad phenomenon of our reality as a socially disadvantaged family has become a very common phenomenon. Every 75 children in Ukraine are raised in a boarding school. Every 3rd child grows up without a father. Every three days, 250 children end up in residential institutions, mainly due to poverty and the inability of the family to provide the child with the basic necessities. At least 600 thousand children live in dysfunctional families, and they, in fact, “stand in line” to get into boarding schools. 2. Children in boarding schools There are more than 106,000 orphans in Ukraine. Only 8% of them are orphans, while the remaining 92% are social orphans with living parents, children without status. Most orphans in boarding schools and orphanages cannot be adopted for various reasons (age, health, legal status). For children over five years of age, the chances of finding their parents decrease sharply. There are only a few people who want to adopt a teenager. This causes significant damage to their emotional and mental health. As a result, children are not prepared for independent life, therefore, most of them, after leaving the boarding school, lead an asocial lifestyle (crime, prostitution, drug addiction, alcoholism, vagrancy, etc.) After leaving boarding schools: - every second child commits crime; - every fifth person becomes homeless; - every seventh person attempts suicide; - only 1% of orphans receive higher education. All this happens because orphans are not ready for real life outside the walls of the boarding school, they do not know basic things - how to cook food, earn money, make purchases, etc. After leaving the boarding school, teenagers are not able to live independently and quickly fall to the bottom society. 50% of 100,000 children will commit a crime! Many will become hooked on alcohol and drugs. 23% will be left without housing at all, 14% will try to kill themselves, as they see no point in such a life. 30% of children from boarding schools will grow up, give birth early and bring their children to the same chairs; there are families who have grown up on the Internet for 3 generations! PROJECT ACTIVITIES • Association of mentors. Association of foster parents and parents from DDST, guardians, foster families. • Help and support for those who work with families of life-support organizations and orphans. • Help and support for adoptive parents. Foster parents, guardians, adoptive parents need communication, exchange of experience, support each other, support at the social, emotional, spiritual level, etc. Support must cover not only foster families, but all forms of family placement for orphans and children left under parental care . Help is needed at all stages, from creating a foster family, supporting future adoptive parents, to supporting the process of family functioning, with the necessary pedagogical, psychological, legal, material and other necessary support. PROJECT OBJECTIVES: • Support of family-type orphanages and other forms of family education of orphans through the work of volunteer teams to help and support parents and children, consultation and support of specialists; creating conditions for the exchange of experience among parents. • Support and motivation of orphans raised in family-type orphanages and other forms of family education for orphans (consultations of specialists, tutoring, etc.) • Creation of platforms for parents and children to spend time together - exchange of experience, motivation, prevention of emotional burnout , assistance in building trusting relationships (camps, forums, parents’ association, etc.) • Volunteer visits to families and planning a “Parents’ Day Off”. • Support and motivation of mentors for orphans. Exchange of experience, training, prevention of emotional burnout (trainings, communication evenings, forums, camps, etc.). Association of Mentors. 1. Training of Mentors. 2. Cooperation with Family, Children and Youth Centers, boarding schools in achieving the goals of the “Mentoring” project; 3. Development of a program for coordinating the work of mentors, timely assistance, training, and advanced training. 4. Development of teaching aids to help Mentors, covering situations and methods of assistance in the most common situations; 5. Creation of self-help groups of Mentors. 6. Creation of advisory centers for volunteer mentors (psychological assistance, advocacy, etc.) 7. Organization of Forums for volunteer mentors, camps, training meetings, etc. 8. Corporate Mentoring. 9. Career guidance. Help you decide on a profession and educational institution. Coaching Center 1. The Family Support Center regularly conducts support work for DDST families, guardians, mentors, adoptive parents and foster parents; 2. Through holding camps for DDST families, adoptive parents with children and mentors, it prevents the PROBLEM OF EMOTIONAL BURNOUT. 3. Exchange of experience between parents and mentors. 4. Creating conditions for parents and children to relax. 5. Obtaining new knowledge on working with children (through trainings, consultations with specialists, round tables, etc.) 6. Obtaining answers and support for parents who have special problematic situations in their upbringing. 7. Renewed strength for further service to children. 8. Spreading the impact of the PROJECT EFFECTIVENESS and ATTRACTING NEW FAMILIES to serve in this area. 9. Creation of self-help groups. 10. Creation of mobile teams to help families DDST, SHO... Career guidance and training in housekeeping skills and... (volunteers, trainers, specialists) 1. Assistance in choosing a profession and finding employment. 2. Assistance in studying courses to obtain specialized education. 3. Conducting clubs of interest for parents of SJO, graduates of boarding schools and children and parents from families of DDST, etc. (training in housekeeping, cleaning, hygiene, child care, cooking, family budget planning, time planning, relationship building, etc. .) Details for supporting the project: UA 313052990000026008050276317, CB PRAVATBANK, MFO: 305299, BO ICF “Krok s nadieyu”, organization code (EDRPOU): 39442574 currency account 26000050249450