Post-residential Adaptation of Graduates of Orphanages and Other Types of Alternative Care

 

The program is aimed at providing primary and secondary vocational educational institutions with additional staff such as psychologists and social workers, case workers and sports activities coordinators to carry out rehabilitation work with orphaned teenagers. 

 

Purpose: to provide psychological, legal, and social support to graduates of orphanages and other types of alternative care who live and study in professional educational institutions during the transition period from residential dependency to independent life. 

 

Program Objectives: 

 

- assistance in acquiring adequate life skills for successful integration of graduates of orphanages and other types of alternative care into society; 

 

- providing psychological, legal, social, and medical support during the transition period from residential dependency to independent life; 

 

- development of legal, moral, and social culture of graduates of orphanages and other types of alternative care; 

 

- development of communication skills, budget planning skills, free time, healthy lifestyle skills; 

 

- training of graduates in orientation to existing State and public organizations (employment centers, Departments of Education, social protection agencies, etc.) and the correct use of their services to solve their problems; 

 

- finding out the immediate needs of orphaned children in order to provide more effective targeted support; 

 

- conducting trainings for employees of professional educational institutions working under the program "Post-residential Adaptation of Graduates of Orphanages and Other Types of Alternative Care"; 

 

- providing methodological and psychological support to employees in educational institutions working under the programs of the Nadezhda Fund. 

 

In 2019, 9 secondary vocational schools of the Vladimir and Kostroma regions participated in the program. The work of 3 additional specialists was set up and provided for, and in other educational institutions, remote classes were conducted by employees of the Fund. A total of 125 students from orphanages took part in group classes, trainings and seminars aimed at developing life skills and social competencies of graduates of orphanages. Individual sessions were conducted with all the participants in career guidance, budgeting skills, social skills, and charity work.