Activities
- Social support in the placement centres
- Theoretical and practical courses delivered by one of the ASIS group coordinators.
The activity with each small group of youngsters (10 – 12 persons) was carried on for six months and the group coordinators met the group for 3 – 4 hours, twice a week.
The curriculum of those courses covered the following topics: verbal and written communication, personal budget management, work place, personal identity, sexual education, cooking, persons trafficking, legislation, state authorities/ institutions, socializing and leisure time, community life- Individualized assistance and counselling
Provided by the group coordinator to each young person individually, the assistance and counselling focused mainly on identifying solutions for social and professional integration (integration in family/ host/ ASIS residential structures, follow on studying, health, education, etc.)
- Progress evaluation for each beneficiary
The courses delivered in the placement centres mandatory included information consolidation and checking exercises as well as permanent activities for monitoring and evaluating the progress of each beneficiary.
- Intervention within the residential structures of ASIS
The activity was based on the personalized educational projects developed by each beneficiary together with the related social worker and the implementation of those projects was achieved through a wide range of specific activities related to the development and consolidation of independent life skills (personal hygiene habits, housekeeping, cooking and occupational skills, written and verbal communication, budgeting exercises, etc.).
The ASIS team used strategies and methods whose efficiency had been tested along the time (and which have been already taken over by similar organizations from abroad), namely work methods with small groups and individuals (1 youngster – 1 social worker) and innovative tools for case monitoring and evaluation..
- Training the staff in the placement centres
The training of the staff in the placement centres consisted of a know-how transfer session related to the work techniques and instruments used by ASIS with a view to socially integrate, monitor and evaluate the youngsters emancipated from the placement centres.
After a two days training session for each group of participants, two representatives of each governmental institution involved in the project were included in the ASIS team.Good Practices
- “Social support in the placement centres” and “Staff training”:
- Cooking activities
Developing food purchasing and cooking skills and even using the kitchenware are certain, touchable and verifiable results of those activities.
- Training the youngsters for a profession demanded on the labour market
The activity was successful due also to the fact that the youngsters who attended the courses previously benefited of specific counselling and afterwards were constantly monitored by the ASIS staff up to graduation and assisted to get a proper job in the field of training.
- Know-how transfer to the educational staff
The activity proved to be a good practice as far as the trained staff considered ASIS’ principles and methodology as being very useful and took them over partially.
- “Interventions within the residential structures of ASIS”
The work system developed within our residential structures proved that the independent life skills are better assimilated, both quantitatively and qualitatively, in an environment where the youngsters are “challenged” to find out, regularly practice and turn into value those skills.
Due to the fact that the social support is provided constantly in our residential structures and the youngsters carry on the stages of their own educational project assisted by a social worker through the work method “one-to-one”, the independent life skills are consolidated not only in a correct manner but also in a shorter time than in other types of programmes.