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CARE LEAVERS INTEGRATION PROGRAMME C L I P

CARE LEAVERS INTEGRATION PROGRAMME C L I P. Sharing ISS Switzerland’s experience in BULGARIA. The context of CLIP’s intervention. 300 orphanages in Bulgaria 35’000 institutionalised children 2% of children living in institutions (3 times European average)

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CARE LEAVERS INTEGRATION PROGRAMME C L I P

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  1. CARE LEAVERS INTEGRATION PROGRAMME C L I P Sharing ISS Switzerland’s experience in BULGARIA

  2. The context of CLIP’s intervention • 300 orphanages in Bulgaria • 35’000 institutionalised children • 2% of children living in institutions (3 times European average) • Most of the children are not orphans but left by their parents unable to raise them. • Lack of staff (1 care giver for every 22 child) • Lack of staff’s capacities to work with children • Lack of appropriate infrastructures

  3. WHY CLIP? Accompanying children toward autonomy PROJECT’S INTERVENTION: the transition period 15 years old 16 17 18 19 20 Age when the children have to leave the institution in Bulgaria Inside the institution Ouside the institution

  4. Why CLIP? The results of the needs assessment • No preparation for leaving the institution • No social network outside • No place to live out there • No prospect for future (no jobs)

  5. CLIP’s main objectives • Prepare youngsters for an independent and self-supporting life for the time when they have left the institution • Provide them with the means to positively tackle their lives (place to live, job, social skills and network) • Improve the professionalism of care-givers (social workers)

  6. Target group • Children and youngsters aged between 15 and 20 years old – just before and right after they have to leave their institution • Institution's staff working for the protection of children • 6 Municipalities (CLIP 1: Lovech, Sevlievo, Veliko Tarnovo – CLIP2: Stara Zagora, Vratsa, Smolyan)

  7. Methodology for the actors of the support system around the young people

  8. Aims and expected impacts for the young people

  9. The importance of an individualised approach. What does it mean concretely?

  10. The importance of an individualised approach. What does it mean concretely?

  11. The professionals’ attitude and values when performing the individual approach

  12. The Protected Living Spaces and the Half-Way Apartments: a mean to facilitate a progressive autonomisation for each child. The path to independence through PLS and HWA in CLIP’s logic of intervention Autonomy Accommodation in the halfway apartments, in the community, in foster families or on the working place CLIP’s intervention Inside the institution Accommodation in the PLS, in apartments designed for 4 to 6 youngsters Collective care

  13. The creation of a favourable socio-political environment: the necessary conditions for an effective work • The collaboration with the institutions at national level • The collaboration at local level: the Operational groups • The sensitisation and trainings for professionals INTERINSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION MULTI-DISCIPLINARITY ACTORS’ RESPONSABILISATION

  14. CLIP’s difficulties and lessons learnt • Involving the communities has been a challenge (“Peer Group Programme”) • Working with children as soon as the decision of their institutionalisation is being taken instead of focusing on the transition period would be much better (but requires more important means)

  15. Rolf WIDMER | Director |rolf.widmer@manarasoft.ch Tel.: 0041 22 731 67 00 Thank you for your attention

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