An educational program implemented by SOS Children's Villages and SIBUR
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Program description
To be by each other’s side 24/7 and still be able to remain loving parents and children. That was the kind of challenge posed to us by the pandemic that brought with it its recurrent restrictions: lockdowns, self-isolation, having to work and study remotely. Because of constant exposure, families started to experience more conflicts, mutual resentment, and problems communicating.
The goal of an educational project by Children's Villages SOS is to teach parents how to handle crisis situations properly and to provide care professionals with effective tools for helping families in crisis. To attain this goal, the project’s organizers conduct training webinars and seminars for parents and social services professionals.
Over the program’s history, its experts have helped both families and care professionals from Nizhegorodskaya, Tyumen, Voronezh, and Amur Oblasts develop their competences and learn how to deal with challenges in the most appropriate way. Using both online and offline formats, the program’s speakers have given training seminars for the attendees from Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. With each year passing, the program has been generating increasingly more interest and positive reviews.
In 2019, this educational program was delivered in Nizhegorodskaya and Tyumen Oblasts. A three-day June session in Dzerzhinsk was devoted to discussing new approaches with public welfare sector professionals employed by both state-funded institutions and non-profit organizations. The October session in Tobolsk brought together not only current practitioners but also students of teaching discipline and parents. The program’s experiences were discussed at a round table session in Saransk held as part of the "Bring Back Childhood" festival.
2020 saw a two-day seminar for staff of institutions working with families and children at risk, as well as for SIBUR volunteers, take place in Nizhny Novgorod. A full-day online webinar was held in November for professionals from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Tyumen Oblast, and, for the first time, for professionals from Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
In 2021, the project' s organizers held 5 online webinars and 3 face-to-face sessions in Amur, Nizhegorodskaya, and Voronezh Oblasts.
2022 is expected to see monthly online meetings and face-to-face meetings take place in Voronezh and Nizhegorodskaya Oblasts. In addition, a 3-day seminar will be held in Amur Oblast with the support of the regional government. Plus, a special activist group charged with the task of engaging professionals and families with the volunteering community on a large scale will be set up in the city of Svobodny.
SIBUR and Children's Villages do not simply provide purely theoretical information according to a pre-set plan, but instead tailor their webinars and seminars to the practical needs and aspirations of a particular city. For this purpose, the project’s organizers conduct polls and surveys and use their results to develop custom-made training programs.
Online webinars for parents
Charitable organization Children's Villages - SOS has, with the support of SIBUR, been holding educational online webinars for parents conducted within the framework of the "Family Ecology 2020" project. The seminars provide answers to questions on how to control one' s emotions during moments of stress and teach how to communicate with school-age and teenage children in a constructive manner. Experienced experts show parents how they can help their children achieve academic success, choose their future profession, and generally teach them how to interact with their families in a healthy way.
Online webinars for professional practioners
The project includes online webinars designed to foster the development of a professional community focused on preventing and reducing social dysfunctions within at-risk families. These sessions help build a support network of social connections, improve one’s qualifications and develop the necessary competencies needed for working with families in crisis.
A series of webinars on psychological trauma
These webinars teach participants to better understand and diagnose a child's psychological trauma and provide tools they can use to help children and their parents. The speakers explain the latest effective methods and techniques, and teach support practices and tools. By making timely adjustments to the parents’ parenting behavior and to the environment in the family, the problem can be dealt with before it becomes critical in the absence of qualified help.
Topics for discussion:
- Key concepts, causes and consequences of a child’s psychological trauma incurred in the course of the child’s development in a family.
- Factors influencing a child's perception of various distressing situations.
- Parent’s behavior patterns.
- Practices for supporting and helping families.
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Topics for discussion:
- Variations of psychological trauma’s latent capabilities and resources.
- Options and practices to be used in supporting families in distress.
- Exercises for mastering independent practices for supporting children and their.
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Topics for discussion:
- What is a childhood psychological trauma?
- Types of childhood psychological trauma.
- What are the visual techniques used in dealing with childhood psychological trauma.
- How to find resources for assisting with childhood psychological trauma.
- Practical experience and application.
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Topics for discussion:
- The types of requests for counselling that parents make.
- Basic scenarios for the development of RAD in birth and adopted children.
- Individual and group forms of counselling when working with parents.
- Tools for counselling families with a RAD child.
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A series of webinars on case management
The problems families in crisis face may, at first glance, seem identical. But this is far from being the case. It is important for a professional to know how to identify an acute crisis situation in each individual family and offer the family the most appropriate solution for dealing with such crises. The series of webinars on case management arms its attendees with practical techniques and methods, and teaches them how to ensure there is effective interaction between the expert and its clients.
Topics for discussion:
- Pace and feedback when counselling families in crisis.
- Visual techniques for measuring progress using case management processes and procedures.
- Using checklists and their capabilities in social counselling of families and children.
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Topics for discussion:
- Principles of social counseling when working with families and children.
- Specific aspects of the work done by specialists in the helping professions in line with the family-centered approach.
- A contemporary crisis family: the implications of applying case management techniques to counselling crisis families.
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Topics for discussion:
- Experience in the use of visual techniques in working families in distress.
- Methodologies for assessing the family’s and the child’s needs
- Genogram, Ecocard, Sociogram, Social Contacts Map, and Relationships Circles methodologies.
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Topics for discussion:
- Counselling practices when handling a conflict.
- Client-practitioner interactions in social counselling settings. Techniques for conflict resolution.
- Protection of the rights and interests of the child when handling a family conflict.
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Module 1: Approaches to Social Counselling of Families and Children
Topics for discussion:
- Graphic testing methods.
- Visual methods of interacting with families and children. Checklists.
- Application of visual techniques.
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Module 2. Techniques and Methods of Social Counselling of Families and Children
Topics for discussion:
- Resolving a psychological trauma.
- Working with resource lists. Free writing.
- Corporal practices.
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