SOCIAL SERVICE FAIR

Welcome to the Social Services Fair of 35th International World Congress FICE International

The congress program includes the Social Services Fair – presentation of providers of social services for children and families, where participants will have the opportunity to meet different service providers in an informal atmosphere, connect, exchange information and start future cooperation.

Exhibitors will present:
• Empowerment and guidance of children and young adults with behavioral problems; prevention of risky and socially unacceptable behaviors; strengthening communication and social skills; empowerment and networking of experts who work with children and young adults with behavioral problems.
• The work of the mobile teams of the Center Maestral Split. A social worker and a psychologist provide services in the way that they go to the homes of the beneficiaries and in the premises of the institution, which are equipped and adapted for working with children through the project. This work in the community is an important factor in the process of deinstitutionalization and transformation of social care homes, considering that they visit families at risk, providing them with help in strengthening the family, improving the relationship between parents and children, and creating a healthy and stimulating environment for growing up, raising and educating children. In addition to primary families, we provide support to foster and adoptive families. A large number of families in these areas are isolated, isolated from traffic and without knowledge of support options, so the mobile team is the only way to provide them with help, which was recognized by the Ministry, which approved the employment and provision of services even after the end of the project.
• The activities of the Support Center are focused on targeted, selective and universal prevention of risky behaviors of children and young people and post-institutional support for young people leaving care, as well as a series of activities aimed at strengthening the protective factors of the individual, family, school, community
• Discovering the inner strengths and potential of children and young people, which ensure the conditions for the development of positive developmental outcomes.
• Support for the further process of deinstitutionalization and prevention of institutionalization of children and young people. Alternative care as a carrier of social change.
• raising awareness of the importance of regionalization of the spectrum of social services
• Presentation of opportunities for publication of experience from practice and professional papers
• Acquaint the participants with the goals, activities and results of the implementation of three-year programs to improve the digital competencies of foster parents
• Promoting the rights and needs of children without adequate parental care
• Shelter for victims of domestic violence – Provide care for victims of domestic violence through temporary housing in crisis situations and act publicly with the aim of raising awareness about the issue of domestic violence and the prevention of violent behavior. The basic goal of the shelter is achieved by providing temporary accommodation in crisis situations for women and children, victims of domestic violence – free accommodation, food and hygiene items, care and ensuring safety, psychosocial treatment through which we provide support and help to victims of domestic violence with the aim of mitigating the consequences of violence, empowering and strengthening the personal capacities of women and children to create prerequisites for an independent life, and through raising public awareness of the issue of domestic violence and implementing prevention and advocacy of victims’ rights through public action
• “Children’s Smile” is a Caritas program of the Split-Makar Archdiocese that helps families with children who live in poverty or are at risk of poverty and social exclusion. The activities are aimed at preventing and alleviating child poverty, encouraging the healthy development of children, developing their talents and capacities, as well as professional and spiritual support for parents, with the aim of ending transgenerational poverty.
• The activities of the family associate will be ensured within the social service of psychosocial support for the family or, exceptionally, with measures to protect the rights and well-being of the child prescribed by the Family Law only in situations where there is no safety risk, and a low or medium risk for the child’s development has been assessed. The activity family associate gives birth within the framework of psycho-social services, provides daily practical help to parents (e.g. establishment of healthy daily routines, learning how to prepare meals, support in planning the household budget, support in taking care of the child’s health and hygiene) and the like.

The exhibitors registered so far are:
• Center for providing services in community Varaždin
• Center for providing services in community Maestral
• Organization MoSt
• Center for providing services in community Selce
• Center for providing services in community Split
• “Croatia for Children” Foundation ‘
• Center for providing services in community Zagorje
• Annual of social work
• Rehabilitation center for stress and trauma
• Center for providing services in community „Kuća sretnih ciglica“
• Caritas of Splitsko-makarska archdiocese
• High School ¨“Braća Radić Kaštel Štafilić-Nehaj“
• UNICEF

Photos from the social services fair will be published after the presentation

FIELD VISITS

Participants of the 35th FICE International World Congress will have the opportunity to visit one of the locations of social service providers in Split. Organized field visits are:

Institutions offered as part of the field visit:

Center for providing services in community Maestral – headquarters in Split, is a social welfare institution that cares for children and young adults without parents or adequate parental care, pregnant women or parents with children up to one year old, biological, foster and adoptive families, unaccompanied foreign children citizens and children and young people after leaving care, and it operates in ten locations and through mobile teams in the area of the entire Split-Dalmatia County. Organized visit and tour of the headquarters of the institution in Split, where we provide accommodation services for children from birth to 18 years, psychosocial support and half-day stay. We will introduce you to the specific services in a presentation, and in the exchange of experiences with the professional workers who provide the services. It will also be possible to meet with service beneficiares.

Maestral Center for providing services in community – Miljenko and Dobrila branch in Kaštel Lukšić, 20 km from Split (30-45 min drive) – organized visit and tour of the institution where we provide accommodation services for children from 7 to 18 years old, and half-day stays . You will be introduced to the services in the presentation, and in the exchange of experiences with the professional workers who provide the services, and through meeting and socializing with the users, you will gain an insight into our activities.

Organization MoSt is a non-governmental, non-political, non-profit organization, founded in 1995, with the aim of improving the lives of children, young people, people living in poverty and the homeless. MoSt’s activities are focused on the implementation of local, regional, national and international strategies to combat risky behavior of young people, poverty and homelessness and social exclusion. Among the many activities, through a visit to the organization, the work of the Support Center for children and youth with behavioral problems will be presented, within which programs of selective and indicated prevention and treatment of behavioral problems of children and youth are implemented and provides post-institutional support to youth who leave alternative care. Post-institutional support intended for young people aged 15-30 who are just entering or exiting and are already outside social welfare institutions and penal institutions. The interventions are focused on information, counseling, group work, learning social and life skills, raising the level of competences for employment, assistance in independent living and creating personal and work documents, contacts with competent institutions and potential employers, etc. The program aims to reduce social exclusion and risk of poverty of this specific youth population.

Center for providing services in community Split is a social care institution whose professional activities are focused on children and young people with behavioral problems and those who are at risk of developing them, up to the age of 18 or exceptionally 21 years of age. Beneficiaries come to our institution on the basis of the Family Law, the Law on Social Welfare or the Law on Juvenile Courts. The types of services we provide as an institution include: Accommodation (multidisciplinary assessment, stationary accommodation, organized housing in 3 locations), half-day stay (half-day stay at service providers (4 groups) and half-day stay at schools (4 schools), counseling center – help for children and young people and families, and entry into the community through mobile teams, family assistants and a measure of intensive assistance and supervision over the care of the child, i.e. our employees who go to the families.

If you are a participant of the congress, if you want to participate in the field visits, and you have not registered yet, please check your email and fill out the doodle form in order to ensure transportation on time.