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The project Street Work for Children and Youth
Support
of Social Work with At-Risk Children and Youth at the Area of Prevention of
Pathological Phenomena
Focussed on Clients' Work-Skills Training (Social
Entrepreneurship) and Mobile Social Work in Excluded and Remote Areas.
At the
turn of the years 2012 and 2013 the Centre for the Quality and Standards in
Social Services, one section of the National Training Fund in the partnership
with the Czech Streetwork Association has got a large project focused on
children and youth at-risk. The project was awarded and is generously financed
by THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS from Denmark. We are very happy to say that our
organizations have succeeded among more than 200 projects.
The
VILLUM FOUNDATION and the VELUX FOUNDATION are non-profit foundations created
by Villum Kann Rasmussen, the founder of the VELUX Group and other entities in
the VKR Group, whose mission it is to bring daylight, fresh air and a better
environment into people’s everyday lives.
The
Foundations support among others major social initiatives, cultural projects
and projects on the environment and sustainability in Denmark and other
European countries.
Main
project activities
The
activities will be targeted at socially excluded and remote locations as well
as the fast growing suburbs of big cities.
Activity
No. 1 Social Entrepreneurship - a chain of charity stores with training job
positions for the target group of 16 - 25 years olds.
The
development of the chain of social enterprises will start in Prague (Czech
Region), later on in Brno (Moravian Region). Other places will be determined
later on by real situation and needs.
Activity
No. 2 Providing mobile social work services in excluded and remote areas aimed
at a target group of 6 - 20 years olds and their families.
During
the first months of the project we actually determine the need for provision of
social services and identify areas for youth oriented social field work in
excluded locations where it would be inefficient to build ”brick and mortar”
facilities.
Activity
No. 3 An ongoing support of the project activities sustainability - fundraising
and lobbying targeted at local/regional/national authorities.
Specialist
- fundraiser/lobbyist will do seek for support and cooperation of local and
national authorities.
The target
groups of the project
Target
group No. 1 Young people between 16 and 25 years of age who are failing in
their roles at school and employment, have dropped out of school, and/or leave
their original family or orphanage without having created their own background.
Typical traits: insufficient work and social habits (problems with being at
work on time, consistency in attention-demanding activities, communication with
other people - especially with the authorities), education only at a primary
school level, which substantially disadvantages them in the job market.
Solution offered by the project: training job positions for disadvantaged
clients.
Target
group No. 2 Children and youth aged 6 - 20 years in excluded areas who hang out
around their neighbourhoods, skip classes, gradually start using alcohol and
drugs. They are disadvantaged in their access to social services (street work,
counselling) that are concentrated primarily in the cities. Solution offered by
the project: providing access to social services and providing preventive
educational programmes to clients and their families (support of financial
literacy and fight against usury).
Main
objectives of the project
Specific
short- and long-term objectives defined for the project
Principal
objectives aimed at introducing new approaches, which would help to address
this situation.
Activity
No. 1: The aim is to use training positions to provide clients with employment
experience, basic work habits and required work experience that would increase
their chances of success in the job market.
Activity
No. 2: The aim is to make social services in the CR available to clients living
in excluded areas through mobile street work aimed at youth, children and their
families.
Expected
outcomes of the project
Activity
No. 1 An operational chain of stores run as social enterprises. Dissemination
of know-how (guidelines, professional backup, training) to other regions
through CAS with the methodological support of NTF).
Activity
No. 2 Providing of mobile social work in the selected areas using prepared
methodological guidelines and trained workers - transfer of the practice to
other regions.
Activity
No. 3 Establishing of contacts with local administration officials in order to
obtain further financing of both social enterprises and mobile field work
introduced by the project.
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