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August 25 at the Russian State social university with social support significant project"Ekoner" and the Resource Educational and Methodological Center for training disabled people and persons with disabilities held a round table "Disabled people and volunteers: aspects of interaction."
The event was attended by about 30 people, including representatives of non-profit organizations, resource centers and foundations, volunteer communities, and managers of various social projects. Together, both speakers and listeners figured out how to carry out interaction between volunteers and people with disabilities, how to teach young volunteers to provide “correct” assistance to people with disabilities. disabilities health, and people with disabilities - to put their skills and abilities into practice, get education and work.
Moderator Round table The head of the project “Econer: stimulating forms of participation of young citizens in social assistance people with disabilities" Elina Ibragimova. She greeted the event participants and said a few words about the activities of the project itself.
"Within of this project we have held a number of events, we are holding various master classes for children who have certain health problems. We are also developing methodological manuals, which may be useful in your Centers and NPOs.”
Today, the quality of life of people with disabilities is a leading social task for the state. It is based, first of all, on the implementation and socialization of people with disabilities, on obtaining vocational education and employment. This opinion is shared by the co-organizer of the event, the head of the Resource Educational and Methodological Center of the RSSU for training the disabled and persons with disabilities Anna Karplyuk. She notes that the main driver in this direction could be the Abilympics professional skills competitions.
“Already today, 75 constituent entities of the Russian Federation have joined the movement. The movement covers the category of participants from 14 to 65 years old, and this year will gather about 1,000 participants.”
In addition to regional centers for the development of the movement, competency centers will be created in each subject. They will be responsible for the methodological component, form an expert community, and attract employers. According to Anna Karplyuk, thanks to such large-scale projects, people who previously had nothing to do with the livelihoods of disabled people can now become involved in the solution global challenges related to their vocational education and employment.
Today is coming active movement on training to work with people with disabilities both employees of volunteer organizations and their leaders. Only such programs, according to the head of the RGSU volunteer center Leonid Nosonov, will be able to promote interaction between volunteers and people with disabilities, and not only in major cities Russia, but also in the regions.
“The decision was supported to transfer the volunteer training program to the regions. Currently, 60 agreements have already been signed with regions on the creation of volunteer centers based on the Abilympics project,- notes Nosonov.
Recently, a concept for the development of volunteerism until 2025 was created. The infrastructure for involving young people in volunteer activities is now being actively developed. Programs and social projects are supported at federal youth forums. One of these projects was a social movement called “Together with You,” which is aimed at training volunteers to interact with people with disabilities. The project talks about the evolution of society’s attitude towards people with disabilities, about the problems faced by “special” people in Everyday life, and based on the results of the theoretical part, conducts a quest to understand the term “disability”.
“The idea of the project is to carry out federal district two-day training seminar. We have already held such seminars in Tula, Kaluga, Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. During the implementation of the project, we attracted more than 25 different organizations to participate: 8 volunteer centers, 11 public organizations and 6 government organizations“, - said the head of the “Together with you” program.
It is possible and necessary to train not only volunteers, but also people with disabilities. About how you can turn a person with speech and hearing problems into a creative personality, why it is important to engage in such projects with people with disabilities, and how volunteers can help, art teacher of the Connection Foundation Anastasia Tarasova told the participants of the event.
“The success of our projects is determined by several links, each of which is very important. The most important link is people with disabilities, to whom our attention and care are directed; I see in these people some kind of boundless desire to do something, learn, interest, optimism.”
This project of hope for adults with disabilities was “ Quiet Don", who taught deaf-blind people joint activities, interaction with each other and volunteers.
After the speeches at the Round Table and under the leadership of moderator Elina Ibragimova, a master class “School good will" Volunteer participants and disabled people shared their experiences of interacting with each other. Volunteers spoke about frequently encountered problems in working with people with disabilities, how they came to this field of activity and why. Disabled people expressed their opinion on how to solve various problems communications independently, without resorting to outside help.
The topic of people with disabilities and the topic of volunteering will still be relevant in Russia for a long time. Until society overcomes the barrier in communicating with people with disabilities, learns to provide them with the necessary assistance, until citizens themselves want to be volunteers, and people with disabilities begin to help them overcome psychological barriers, such social and public events will exist, develop and gaining momentum throughout the country.
To help people with disabilities and people with disabilities, you can contact one of the volunteer organizations or one of charitable foundations. You need to help wisely: volunteers have their own rules that you need to know and follow.
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What organizations help people with disabilities?
Today in Moscow there are many public organizations of disabled people, societies and charitable foundations, and simply associations of caring people who provide the most various help people with disabilities. These organizations and people are related to providing for those in need, care and assistance to bedridden patients, providing medical and social assistance, mental and physical adaptation in society. Often, the necessary assistance is provided by volunteer volunteers who are willing and able to spend a little of their time and energy on those who really need it.
The activities of these organizations and volunteers are connected, sometimes inextricably, with other areas where “extra hands” are needed. We wrote about this in the articles “” and “”. Those who deal with the problems of people with disabilities closely interact with both commercial structures and the capital's authorities.
There are several charity websites through which you can raise necessary information about helping the disabled. These include, for example, Blago.ru and charity meeting " Together" These resources post information about charitable organizations, sell charity projects. Through them you can also transfer money to disabled people in need.
There is an Autonomous non-profit charitable organization " Center social development and Self Help Perspective”, which deals with the problems of disabled people under the “Help in Need” program.
In order to help, first of all, you need to read a kind of volunteer charter for the Center, which is called “Volunteering as a norm of life.” In particular, it emphasizes that: “Volunteers can help in different ways - this includes psychological support and the organization of educational or gaming activities, food delivery, cleaning, walking and other forms. If you have a desire to work as a volunteer in Moscow, we will be happy to tell you how and who you can help with us. In our Center people are the most of different ages, professions and abilities can find volunteer activity to their liking. And don't be afraid to try! Even the smallest help can make the world a brighter place.” In general, these words refer to the volunteer movement in general.
To become a volunteer at the Center, you must first fill out a form on the organization’s website.
The Orthodox help service also helps disabled people “ Mercy" Volunteers of the service help in medical and rehabilitation institutions (carried out at the St. Alexy Hospital, the First City Clinical Hospital named after N.I. Pirogov, the 2nd Infectious Diseases Hospital, the Hematological scientific center etc.), provide sanitary and hygienic care, provide moral support to those who need it; provide all possible assistance to the staff of medical institutions.
You can also make a monetary donation through the Mercy service.
Community « Tugeza» is engaged in volunteer assistance in all areas, including helping disabled people - children and adults.
Public charitable organization " Russian Red Cross”, which also provides assistance to people with disabilities, regularly looks for volunteers. According to the “Regulations on Volunteers of the Russian Red Cross”: “Volunteer activities do not have political or other selfish motives. RKK volunteers can be Russian, foreign citizens and stateless persons of all ages, regardless of gender, race and religion. RKK volunteers are not members of the All-Russian public organization"Russian Red Cross".
A volunteer is individual, who has reached 14 years of age and carries out its activities in the form of unpaid labor in the interests and on behalf of the RKK.
Carrying out great job to provide assistance to the population, RKK volunteers play important role in the implementation and promotion of the ideas of mercy, kindness and humanism..."
Separately, I would like to talk about an organization that trains dogs to help people with disabilities - this is the dog training center “ Assistance dogs for disabled people" The center is private charitable organization, whose activities are dedicated to the social rehabilitation of people with disabilities with the help of specially trained dogs. You can also work as a volunteer in this organization - for example, there is a need for people who raise a puppy at home. And if you are wondering whether to get a dog or not, then you can take it “to practice.”
The city authorities also, in addition to government social support measures, provide assistance to those who need it; exercise patronage over medical, rehabilitation institutions and centers for people with disabilities.
November 1, 2012 at a meeting coordination council for the Affairs of the Disabled and Other Persons with Disabilities, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced some results of the work done over the year: from January 1, 2012, the standard for financing the education of disabled children in kindergartens and schools for a disabled child is 2 times higher, and for a child with violations - 3 times more; in system social protection 18 additional rehabilitation departments have been opened, including four departments for disabled children; Since the beginning of the year, 2.2 thousand people have been employed in special jobs; More than 3 thousand public buildings are adapted for access by groups of citizens with limited mobility.
Unfortunately, there is not enough government support, and social services they don't always succeed. If you have the opportunity and desire, you can create a similar group on social networks yourself and organize other caring people. Remember, no matter who you are, you have the opportunity to help those who need it. The main thing is that there is a desire.
Assimilation of this meaning does not always happen quickly and easily: children do not know how to behave with a volunteer, how to speak, how to treat us. Often, direct work within the framework of events must be supported by personal conversations about what is acceptable and what is not in communication between the child and the volunteer. This process is usually labor intensive for both parties. However, most often it is possible to achieve the introduction of the volunteer role into recruitment social roles child. When asked by a third person, “Who is this?” the child answers, “These are volunteers, my friend.” The appearance of a volunteer correlates with the child’s expectation of new experiences and new practices.
Additionally, an important component of the value of the volunteer role is the unpaid and voluntary nature of the work. This phenomenon is often unique even to employees of institutions, who for some time cannot accept the fact that a volunteer does not receive money for his work. As for children, what is new for them is the fact that a volunteer works without obligations to them or to the institution (he is not an employee, not a parent, or even a student).
The second important form in which alternative social practices are transmitted to a child by a volunteer is the filling of sociocultural gaps through personal experience volunteer Very often, a future volunteer’s acquaintance with the specifics of work begins with surprise caused by the fact that certain social and moral phenomena, obvious to a person “from the big world,” are not at all obvious to the student child care facility. Such sociocultural and ethical gaps relate, first of all, to three main groups of concepts: firstly, family and personal relationships, secondly, material values and property, thirdly, social duties and moral responsibility.
Often in the real experience of communication between a volunteer and a child, all these three groups of concepts are closely intertwined. For example, for a student of an institution, the concept of the cost of things, as well as the need to earn money through daily labor to buy this or that thing, is most often an absolute abstraction. Work concept, job responsibilities are also rather abstract, i.e. The very expressions “go to work”, “busy at work” are a kind of cliché for the pupil, which is conventionally accepted, but is often not understood, does not correlate with emotional experience (fatigue, busyness, concern, etc.), with the concepts of obligations and responsibility. This is also facilitated by the fact that most professions and activities are alien and unknown to the students of institutions. A similar situation is observed with the concept of family, which is undoubtedly familiar to children, but is also a kind of cliché that is not correlated with any real emotional experience, with the concepts of responsibility for loved ones, the peculiarities of life and relationships within the family, etc. It is natural that the most obvious ethical lacuna for a child raised outside the family is the concept of responsibility - moral, material, social, personal, etc. This is manifested in a lack of respect for material objects, in more pronounced childish egoism, in a lack of understanding of the requirements of honesty in communication with a volunteer, etc.
Partial and gradual filling of these gaps occurs in various forms: in the process of live communication and, rather, the child’s unconscious mastery of certain conventions “ big world» using the example of a volunteer, in the form of targeted conversations on relevant topics, in the form of events dedicated to certain fragments of social reality (be it mass educational events or personal correspondence between a volunteer and a child, including stories about the volunteer’s profession, the meaning of his work, the characteristics of family life, etc.).
From all of the above, several more conclusions can be drawn that are more universal in nature. This is the importance of the figure of the volunteer, firstly, as a psychosocial experience of another, and secondly, as a carrier of social mobility.
Volunteer as a psychosocial experience of the “other”.
The significance of the phenomenon of “other” in the process of cognition and self-knowledge by the individual was in to the fullest recognized and proven by a wide range of socio-humanitarian sciences of the twentieth century, enshrined in a variety of artistic forms. Thus, today, the a priori necessity of the “other” in the formation of the “I” is an axiom. In the context of social and medical institutions for children, the “other,” although not completely excluded, is greatly reduced. The limited space of the institution contributes to a gradual decrease in the degree of “otherness” (at least social) in the figures of the students and employees of the institution. Other standard social roles, as mentioned above, are rather fragmentary and often absent altogether. In this situation, the importance of the volunteer as an absolute “other” is beyond doubt. For a child, a volunteer as an “other” is equally significant in both a social and psychological sense. If the social component was discussed in detail above, then the psychological component of development lies, first of all, in the fact that, by getting to know the “other,” the child gets to know himself better and more effectively: his preferences, manifestations of his character, his desires, abilities, etc.
Volunteer as a manifestation of social mobility.
This category - social mobility - is also important, first of all, for the development of the child’s personality, for his cognition and self-knowledge. While discussing the typical set of social roles within which the child’s primary socialization unfolds, we did not note another important feature: all these roles, as a rule, are strictly fixed and limited. For example, the role of an employee of an institution (teacher, director, doctor) is of an official nature, and the bearer of this role rarely (although this is not excluded) enters the child’s personal space, becoming, for example, his friend, mentor, or close person. On the other hand, a friend can rarely act as a teacher, mentor, or assistant. The role of a volunteer is much more fluid and socially mobile. A volunteer can act as a sponsor, as a guardian, as a teacher, as a friend, as an assistant, as an educator, as an official. All these manifestations are not fixed either by a mandatory sequence or by any other mandatory factors. Most often, the degree of mobility of a volunteer’s social role depends on the specific conditions in which his communication with the child takes place. For a child, this opens up significantly greater opportunities for learning about the world beyond the boundaries of the institution, as well as the possibility of self-knowledge.
The need to form an institute for training volunteers in order to actualize the sociocultural and psychological potential of the volunteer role in working with children.
Today, when, despite the official approval of volunteering, this institution still remains controversial, the accumulated experience of volunteering still allows one to judge the significant benefits of such work. The benefit is mutual - both for the volunteer himself and for the institution and its students. Benefit, which is largely due to the fact that this work is voluntary and unpaid, which is a significant factor not only and not so much from an economic point of view, but from a moral and social point of view. The actualization of volunteer participation should concern, first of all, the creation and strengthening of the institution of professional volunteering. Professional volunteering involves pooling the accumulated this moment significant experience in practical work, its conceptualization and systematization in order to identify and develop the most important and productive aspects, as well as to improve problematic aspects that also undoubtedly exist. Volunteer work can and has every reason to become an integral part of the psychological rehabilitation and socialization of orphans, children in difficult life situations, children with disabilities, bringing much more tangible results than the use of exclusively traditional methods.
Directions and forms of work of volunteers with children
The specific forms of volunteer work with children are determined by a number of factors:
characteristics of the audience: age, health status, number of children in the group, etc.
the role assigned to a volunteer in a particular institution/children's group: household assistance, assistance with studies, in organizing leisure time, in rehabilitation work, etc.
mode and features of the institution: these factors determine the number of working volunteers, the possibility/impossibility certain forms work in accordance with sanitary and other standards, etc.
specialization of volunteer work: specially trained volunteers (specialists in a particular field) or ordinary people and so on.
other factors: seasonality, geographical location, etc.
In general, we can highlight the following most general directions volunteer activities in relation to children:
1. accompaniment of stay in medical institutions(hospitals, etc.): the possibility of such work varies significantly in different regions of the Russian Federation. IN Samara region Basically, this form of work is possible only in the form of providing material assistance (monetary or in kind).
2. facilitating family searches: cooperation with guardianship authorities, information work, formation of potential guardians from among volunteers.
3. leisure organization(on the basis of institutions or outside institutions): all kinds of leisure, developmental, entertainment activities - from holidays and hobby groups to organizing trips, etc.
4. rehabilitation work: activities using various rehabilitation techniques in accordance with age, tasks, health status, etc. (art therapy, fairy tale therapy, animal therapy, play therapy and much more).
5. material support: raising funds or in-kind assistance for the benefit of institutions, searching for sponsors, information work, etc.
6. post-boarding support, i.e. assistance to graduates of social children's institutions. This direction is perhaps the least represented both at the level government work, and from public organizations, volunteers, philanthropists. Meanwhile, this is a very important area of work, because graduates of orphanages and boarding schools, as a rule, are absolutely not integrated into society. More details about this problem can be found from the project of the Regional Public Organization of Volunteers of the Samara Region “Childhood House” “Concept of an Adaptation Center for Graduates of Children’s Social Institutions”:
« Every year, thousands of orphans leave Russian orphanages and boarding schools, who go beyond the threshold of state institutions into the big world... about which, alas, they know nothing. Today, a paradoxical situation has developed in the field of orphanhood: orphanages and boarding schools have already forgotten what material problems are - each has a plasma TV, donated by a sponsor, and a supply of educational games brought by public organizations. The children are dressed, well-fed, specialists and volunteers work with them, caring not only about their rehabilitation and development, but also that they have friends. Orphans are taken on excursions and even to the sea, they spend several hundred holidays a year, New Year showered with gifts. But... the time comes to start an independent life, and then it turns out that the most difficult thing is ahead. IN orphanage The orphan was fed ready-made food - the bread was always sliced, the tea was always brewed. He was dressed in ready-made clothes - the size and seasonality, material, color and quality were selected. The orphan never managed his money on his own, did not make the necessary purchases for everyday life, he did not even know what his borscht was made from. For example, the story of two brothers Vova and Nikita S. from Samara, graduates of an orphanage, who came to their burned-out and uninhabitable apartment, in which they, however, are registered and for which they are obliged to pay several tens of thousands of debts, is, unfortunately, not unique . And if only everyday life! You need to study somewhere, look for a job somehow, collect some documents. You need to know where to go if the temperature rises, and who to contact if the roof is leaking. You need to know that you also pay for the light - and the more often you leave it on, the greater the amount. And so on and so forth. The whole world, which seems familiar to us, but still conceals many problems and mysteries, is a completely alien universe for yesterday’s orphanage pupil. Having tried to imagine this, you begin to better understand where the terrifying statistics come from that 90% of orphans become drunkards, end up in prison, engage in prostitution, and die.
There are many stories about children literally thrown into the big world, about which they know absolutely nothing. Yes, at the state level, assistance is provided to orphans up to 23 years of age, however, as the real experience of orphans shows, this assistance is unsystematic, is provided in a targeted manner and, alas, in an insufficient volume and often not in the most relevant areas. Post-boarding support is an area in which there is practically no work being done by public organizations, but at the same time the area is extremely in demand and difficult.
How do ordinary young people raised in families cope with the challenges of independent life? They learn independence gradually. And on initial stage They are helped, first of all, by their parents. The mother goes with the child to the clinic, the father helps him choose a university. Parents will talk to officials in an adult language that is not yet understandable to the child, and then they will tell you which service to request this or that certificate yourself. Children spend years learning in the family all those little things without which normal life is impossible. adulthood: how to defrost a refrigerator, how to plan a family budget, how to change a baby’s diaper, and so on. And in all these little things, the growing person is guided by his parents. Of course, the adaptation center will not be able to replace or even compensate for this natural process of formation. But still, social parents (a special term that we are introducing to designate future specialists of the center) will be able to make integration into the adult world much less painful and more effective for orphans.
That is why the initiative to create an adaptation center for graduates of orphanages of the Regional Volunteer Organization “Childhood House” receives approval and support not only from understanding people (public figures, former orphanage residents themselves and those who work with them, for whom they are not indifferent). This initiative, announced in the report of the “Childhood House” at the off-site meeting of the Council under the Government of the Russian Federation for Trusteeship in the Social Sphere, held on January 30, 2013 in Samara, received full approval from both officials and representatives of large public and charitable organizations.
We believe optimal creation such a center on the basis of an already existing and successfully operating organization. Why start from scratch and spend time, effort and money on this if we already have experience, have a team working in the field of orphanhood, have an office and certain developments. And what is perhaps even more important, there is a clear understanding of the urgent relevance of this large and very complex work. Of course, it is almost impossible for volunteers to complete it alone. In this regard, we encourage business representatives, patrons and philanthropists to cooperate. Moreover, today, when the topic of both orphans and volunteers is being discussed throughout the state and even the world, we call for attention to those true needs that are long overdue and that can be solved together - by the state, the public, business and the charitable sector».
Lecture 5. Volunteers and children with disabilities. (I. Kirillova)
Volunteering is becoming increasingly popular among the younger generation, being effective way obtaining new knowledge, developing skills for active social life, socially useful leisure. The role and potential of volunteering is increasing in such areas of public life as education, healthcare, sports, culture, landscaping and development of territories, and the implementation of urban, targeted programs. The reasons that bring a person into the volunteer movement are different: these are ideas about duty towards people who need his help, the universal human need for compassion and mercy, the acquisition of additional skills and qualifications, the expansion of professional experience, obtaining the necessary information and useful connections.
SGOO DIID "Sail of Hope" cooperates with volunteer organizations of various educational institutions of the city. Samara. The mechanism of interaction with the Center for the Development of Volunteering of the Samara Region, the Volunteer Center “DOOR TO GOOD”, organized on the basis of the Municipal Budgetary Institution of the city of Oblast, has been established. Samara “House of Youth Organizations”, Samara regional public organization “Swallows”, Regional public organization of volunteers of the Samara region “Childhood House”, the priority area of work of which is the work of volunteers, main value– voluntary work of people who want to help children.
Parents of a child with special needs, members of youth organizations, students, schoolchildren. It is impossible to provide for all options for volunteers to help children with special needs. In each specific case it may be something special.
It is important to organize such assistance and ensure that it is regular and not episodic. The development of the volunteer movement to provide assistance to families raising children with disabilities occurs in close partnership of the State Public Educational Institution “Parus of Hope” with the “Family” Center of the Industrial District. This interaction allows you to inform a large number of
families in this category about volunteering, identify family problems and, together with volunteers, look for ways to solve them. It should be noted that our volunteer staff has been resilient for a long time. Attracting volunteer labor allows us to expand the range of services provided: organizing holiday events, organizing congratulations at home for children who use wheelchairs, physical assistance in transporting children, accompanying them to school, training English language , tailoring suits. The range of services is constantly expanding, thanks to the requests of parents and active position
1. Creative therapy is an important component of social rehabilitation. The amateur theater “New Generation” is open to teenagers over 16 years of age thanks to the initiative of student volunteers of the Faculty of Psychology of SaMSU. The actors are teenagers and youth with disabilities, students and schoolchildren of Samara Samara State University and Municipal Educational Institution No. 96 of the Kirov District. During this time, the integrated amateur theater troupe presented the performances “The Twelve Labors of Hercules”, “I Live Like in Pushkin’s Fairy Tales”, “According to Krylov’s Fables” at various city venues: D/K Zheleznodorozhnik, TTU Club, etc.
2. Since 2007 systematic work is being carried out between the State Public Educational Institution "Sail of Hope" and the Faculty of Special Education of the Volga Region State Social and Humanitarian Academy to prepare families to accept the services of student volunteers. For this purpose, families are identified that are the most socially vulnerable and require special help and support. These are families in which children do not attend educational institutions or are home-schooled, i.e. These are guys in any case, limited in communication, with little social experience. The coordinator for working with volunteers of the State Educational Institution "Parus of Hope" and teachers of the "Family" Center of the Industrial District hold preliminary meetings with parents, inform them about the role of a volunteer in the family, about the opportunities for the child that the volunteer movement opens up, supervise the work of volunteers, constantly supporting connection with family.
The volunteer communicates with the child in a mode that is convenient for him and the family: as a rule, this is once a week for 2 hours. Depending on the age of the child, his capabilities, needs, as well as the preparedness of the volunteer, various forms of interaction with the family are chosen. This could be communication, games, modeling from plasticine, drawing, walking.
3. Our organization has a very long-standing partnership with the Samara regional public organization “Swallows”, engaged in the organization, coordination and implementation of international projects to attract volunteer assistance in various organizations cities and regions. In 2001, the Swallows Volunteer Movement Center became a member of the ICYE Federation. International Cultural Youth Exchange or ICYE is a non-profit organization promoting intercultural learning and international volunteerism. ICYE organizes long-term projects and short-term programs in more than 34 countries around the world.
Currently, there are not many organizations in Samara that are officially accredited to accept volunteers and have received a certificate confirming their status and authority. These are SROO "Swallows", SGOO DIID "Sail of Hope", Waldorf kindergarten, War Veterans Hospital, kindergarten No. 325 for children with Down syndrome (Mekhzavod). They are united by the public organization “Salto”, which develops, organizes and finances volunteer exchange programs. The Alliance Française Samara organization has also shown interest in the problem of accepting volunteer help and is currently preparing documents for accreditation.
I must say that this volunteer help is in great demand. Volunteers from different countries come to Russia for various projects that are organized for them by the host country. As part of this work, volunteers come to many families to study or just play and communicate with children. Volunteer assistance to families raising children with disabilities is very important, since they have the opportunity for additional developmental activities and communication (after all, there are children who do not attend kindergarten or are educated individually school curriculum at home and experience an acute lack of communication). In addition, for children it is also an invaluable experience of communicating with speakers of another language, another culture, an opportunity to learn and learn something new and interesting. For parents, volunteer help also helps free up some time (while the child is occupied with a volunteer and is under his supervision) in order to do some things that they previously did not have enough time for.
4. In 2009, a collective decision was made to open our own editorial office of the youth newspaper “Sail of Hope” in the premises of the Family Center. The participants in the project were young people with disabilities and volunteers - journalists from the Volga Region State Social and Humanitarian Academy. By getting involved in publishing and journalism, teenagers and young people broaden their horizons, develop communication skills, and creative abilities. Gradually, the newspaper “Sail of Hope” became a participant and winner of various competitions. A special Diploma in the category “The Most Unexpected Information” was awarded by the radio station “Echo of Moscow” in Samara. In July 2010, the newspaper’s editors received a letter of gratitude from the Social Information Agency “For coverage of the activities of civil society.”
5. Currently, the organization has developed a mechanism for including parents in volunteer activities. why everyone’s capabilities are identified and created the necessary conditions for his activities. This is how a short-term stay group for children was opened preschool age, volunteer - mother with higher pedagogical education, father-volunteer is an instructor in a bookbinding workshop. Thanks to the activity of the parent community, the provision of transport, costume tailoring, and entertainment services was organized. Through public organizations, we send interested parents to training in fundraising, accounting, PR technologies, and then involve them in activities. The work of parents is indispensable in the work of the editorial team of the newspaper “Sail of Hope”. We definitely honor active parents, many of them received letters of gratitude from the Government of the Samara Region for their volunteer work, for winning the “Give a Smile to Children” competition, held as part of the city target program “We are different - we are equal”, there are those who received medals as part of the regional holiday “For the Glory of Fatherhood”.
6. Involving volunteers in organizing festive events: These are only 12 large traditional events on city sites, in which up to 14 educational institutions of the city are involved. Samara, for example: Neptune Day in Victory Park; “Youth smiles at spring; "Day of Knowledge"; "New Year", "Children's Day".
The established cooperation of the State Public Educational Institution "Sail of Hope" with the Family Center of the Industrial District, with the Volunteer Development Center of the Samara Region and other institutions allows you to keep abreast of all the events taking place at the level of Samara and the Samara region. This is participation in the annual event “Spring Week of Kindness”, “Volunteer Job Fair”, participation in the volunteer forum of the Volga Federal District “Good Neighborhood”. The administration of the State Public Educational Institution “Sail of Hope” makes entries in the volunteer’s personal book and always notes their work with letters of gratitude and respectful attitude to their work.
Volunteers represent youth, enthusiasm, and creativity, allowing parents to strengthen their belief that society is ready to accept an “atypical” child. On the one hand, a volunteer is as a senior comrade, as a friend on whom you can rely in many ways, from whom you can ask for advice and help, and on the other hand, a volunteer as a representative of the “big world”, as a person who is ready to share his knowledge and experience , a person who brings something different into the world of a child.
From 2003 to the present day, the State Scientific Organization for Foreign Affairs “Sail of Hope” has accumulated experience and technologies indicating that volunteering is an effective strategy for solving pressing social problems. Volunteers help us develop a variety of rehabilitation programs, thanks to which families raising children with disabilities no longer feel excluded from society.
On behalf of all the parents and children who were visited by volunteers, we express our deep gratitude! Their patience, understanding, work and care brought a lot of positive emotions and a lot of new knowledge into the lives of our children and ourselves. We wish you further creative success and we will be waiting for new guys to visit.
Lecture 6. Features of volunteer work with children with special educational needs. (E. Brytkova)
IN modern conditions volunteer movement is one of effective means implementation government programs social work with the population. Despite the fact that today the number of children with special needs is growing rapidly, it is necessary to change and improve approaches to the concept of “volunteering”. In particular, involve children with special needs in this species activities, because in the modern understanding, a volunteer is a conscious citizen who actively participates in the life of the community.
Volunteering will allow you to focus, first of all, on developing the strengths and talents of children, and not on their physical or mental problems. Interaction with other children will support the cognitive, physical, speech, social and emotional development of children with special educational needs. At the same time, child volunteers will demonstrate appropriate behavior patterns and be motivated to purposefully use new knowledge and skills. Volunteering will help to establish friendly relations between children, thanks to which children will learn to naturally perceive and tolerate human differences, to be more sensitive and ready to help.
Volunteer activities include the following stages of work:
- Preliminary preparation stage - at which they will be formed general concepts about the essence of volunteer activity, its main types and forms, content, features, the necessary knowledge regarding communication, diagnosing their problems and providing the type of assistance they need will be acquired. In addition, volunteers become familiar with the rules of conduct, acquire the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities;
- Deepening knowledge and developing skills that are necessary for self-realization in the process of volunteering.
- to practice skills and consolidate skills at this stage there are trainings and methods role-playing game- consolidation and improvement of skills in different conditions and transforming them into skills (practical volunteer activities). It is in the process of volunteer work that a person’s inner subjective world, his individuality is revealed, and the spiritual and moral qualities of the individual are revealed. In addition, volunteer work performs the function of social education - strengthening fundamental values in society, among young people, such as goodness, mercy, compassion, citizenship, freedom of choice, justice, solidarity, mutual assistance.
Socially- pedagogical Job With children And youth with special needs in rehabilitation institutions of the Department of Labor, Social Protection of the Population and Health Protection
Children and youth with special needs, unlike their healthy peers, have different opportunities for biological, mental, social and spiritual development. At the same time, children and youth with physical and physical disabilities intellectual development should have conditions for the development of their abilities, like healthy peers. Of course, this is a complex, multidimensional problem that requires specific means and methods of comprehensive rehabilitation to be solved. In order to solve these problems, centers for social rehabilitation of disabled children are being created, which provide day care, social rehabilitation, consultations and psychological support families.
The main task of these institutions is to create conditions for the formation of a socially adapted and socially productive personality, to help find their place in life.
In order to improve the quality of rehabilitation services, the centers create appropriate conditions for attracting people with disabilities to the team, where there is an opportunity to get rid of loneliness, overcome the psychological barrier of isolation, and gain skills social behavior, communication and self-care.
When working with disabled children, center specialists use practical and visual teaching methods. During training, elements of various teaching and development techniques are used.
The premises of the centers are equipped with modern medical and recreational equipment, gaming equipment and rehabilitation means. In groups day stay disabled children undergo rehabilitation and social adaptation.
An important place in the work of the centers is given to psychological correction. The main goal of the work is psychological diagnosis of children and correction of deviations in their mental development.
One of the forms of work aimed at developing household skills in children is learning to cook. Training in self-service labor skills is carried out in specially equipped rooms for social and everyday orientation, which in sufficient quantity provided with household equipment.
The main tasks of physical education for disabled children are to develop large and fine motor skills, adjust physical development. Physical education carried out during regime processes, morning exercises, on a walk, special classes in health-improving physical education. Development motor activity children continues in music classes.
The result of all correctional and educational work is children's holidays.
Specialists of the centers conduct surveys of the material and living conditions of families raising disabled children and monitoring of persons in need of social and pedagogical patronage in order to be covered by social services more disabled children.
When a 25 year old Galina Lobova Valerik was born in the spring of this year, she left the maternity hospital not only happy, but also famous - the doctors were proud that they were able to accomplish the almost impossible...
Grow arms and legs!
This dramatic story began in Voronezh on July 4, 1989. Elena and Nikolai Lobov were expecting their second child. But the expected happiness did not happen then...
From the words of her mother and from her letters, Galina learned that after her first cry was heard, all the doctors suddenly fell silent. The child was quickly taken away. The young mother was left alone on a gurney after giving birth. Even then, the mother’s heart sank with a bad feeling. At the appointed hour, Elena Lobova was not brought the baby for feeding; they asked for a long time about how the pregnancy proceeded. And then they finally said that the child was born defective: the girl had underdevelopment of all limbs. The answer to the question why Galina left hand there is only up to the elbow, and the right one is almost up to the hand, no one knows. Mom was healthy, the pregnancy proceeded without any abnormalities. There are no children with special needs in the family. In addition, Galya has completely healthy elder sister and younger brother.
But then, in July 1989, Elena was allowed to look at the child only once, after unwrapping the diapers. They told me not to put it on my chest so that it wouldn’t make itself known. maternal instinct. She was strongly advised to abandon the child. They say he won’t live long, and if he does, he will become a burden for the rest of his life. With a heavy heart, Elena returned home. There were no flowers or memorable photos on the porch of the maternity hospital. Only tears. Elena told all relatives that the child had died. Showing delicacy, they, in turn, were not interested in the details of the tragedy. Meanwhile, Galina grew up in an orphanage until she was six years old - very close, in her native Voronezh. Like all children, I dreamed of growing up quickly and finding my mother. She also prayed to God to help her grow not only her body, but also her arms and legs. Then she was sent to the Kusinsky orphanage.
She remembers that time without offense: there were no evil teachers or cruel children there. On the contrary, Galya was often carried in the arms - first by the teachers, then by the older students. She remembers how the teacher rocked her in her arms, no longer a baby. And the boys pulled her out of the water when one day, while swimming, she began to drown.
"I'm not a vegetable!"
There, in the orphanage, on the second floor, a boy lived next to her Denis Shurenkov. It was brought from the other end of the country - from the mining town of Novokuznetsk. Alcoholic parents were deprived parental rights. Two brothers were scattered to orphanages. Denis was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and was sent to Kusu. The boy learned about family life from letters from his grandmother, who wrote to him until her death.
Together, Galya and Denis first appeared in common boarding school photos - Denis was always nearby. And one day Galina realized that she would really not like to see another girl next to Deniska. Carefully, as if afraid of getting burned, Galya and Denis began dating.
As an orphan, Denis was given an apartment in Novokuznetsk, but he did not want to return there after boarding school. And there was no one to go to - my father still drank, my mother died. After her 18th birthday, Gala was given a room. The young couple pooled their space, and now the family has a spacious two-room apartment with a separate ramp for access to the street.
Before leaving the orphanage in Kus, Galina wrote a request to the social services of Voronezh about her parents. The response stated that her parents were alive and ready to communicate. Then Galya first sat down to write a letter to her mother. “Hello, Elena Germanovna and Nikolai Alexandrovich! I am Galina Nikolaevna Lobova, born in Voronezh on July 4, 1989...” Then there was a story about how Galya lived all these years. She listed all her merits to her parents so that they would understand that there was no need to be afraid of her. She is a person, not a vegetable.
Imagine what it was like for parents to read this letter from the past, out of nowhere?! Elena and Nikolai urgently came to Chelyabinsk to visit their daughter. The burden of the mistake made in youth never fell from the parents' shoulders. To make up for lost years, Galya and her parents went to Anapa and gave her the sea. They became parents not only to her, but also to Denis. Today they are one family. In fact, for the guys, they are the only family people on the entire planet. But Galya still cannot call them mom and dad - she is afraid to frighten away the long-awaited happiness.
Mom Galina and dad Denis dote on little Valerik. Photo: AiF / Alexander Firsov
Last year, Galya and Denis learned another happy news. Galya is pregnant! They got married quietly, without a banquet and a white dress.
It happens that somewhere you need to sign on documents,” says Galina. - The officials look at me and ask my husband to sign the papers. But I always sign it myself. And at the registry office, at the registration of our marriage with Denis, I myself signed.
Seeing the doubt in my eyes, Galya asks me for my work notebook with a smile. Holding the pen in her hand, she deftly writes out her initials in even handwriting.
I can't draw, I can't peel potatoes and vegetables. But we have a vegetable cutter for this case. Denis washes our floor, and I handle the vacuum cleaner. In the mornings Denis makes me a ponytail, and sometimes he braids it.
Having only two semblances of fingers on right hand, Galya learned not only to write, but also to embroider.
Train ride
When Chelyabinsk gynecologists found out that Galina was pregnant, they did not dissuade her from motherhood. The geneticist admitted that there was a risk of recurrence of the injuries, but, despite everything, Galina decided to give birth:
“I wouldn’t give up my child in any case - whether he was born healthy or handicapped like me,” Galina firmly states.
Galya's parents were so happy about their grandson Valerik that they gave the young family a car. The young dad has already received his driver's license.
Despite his mother’s peculiarities, Valerik is not deprived of either care or attention. Denis bathes and swaddles the baby, and Galya washes and applies cream.
This one is walking a happy family by train: Galya on wheelchair carries a stroller with a child in front of him, and Denis carries it behind. Parents hope that Valerik will grow up to be an obedient baby and will not throw toys around the house. After all, in Galina’s family this is not a tribute to order and cleanliness, but required condition for moving mom.
And recently Galina and Denis became heroes of the federal television channel. General Director of the Prosthetics Center Tigran Gharibyan announced that it is possible to make Gala modern prosthetics for one arm and leg. Their cost is about 3 million rubles. Within federal law You can make dentures for free. After the program, funds from caring people began to flow into Galina’s bank account. In total, we managed to collect about 100 thousand rubles.
Valerik, by the way, already behaves ideally in infancy - he eats actively and sleeps soundly, without causing much concern. Mom and dad make plans for the future in their free minute and look at vacancies for dad. Both of them graduated from a college for the disabled. Galina is a computer service specialist, Denis is an accountant, graduated from college with honors. So far they have not worked a single day. Finding an honest employer to work remotely from home is difficult. A young family lives on a disability pension - almost 30 thousand for two. Galina does not ask for help, she only asks for fate, so that everything continues to go just as well.