Project title
Co-creation of help for families in community
Helping families in community: co-creation of desired changes for reducing social exclusion and strengthening health
Programme
Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2009-2014
Project duration:
16/2/2015 – 30/4 /2016
1 year, 3 month, 13 days
Projects summary
Growing number of Slovenian families are facing social exclusion. The challenge is to establish collaboration with families that cannot find suitable help in existing programs. The aim is to mobilize sources of family members to attempt a more active approach to solving situation at hand. The goals are: to develop a model for helping families in a community; to educate professionals and prepare them for work in the field of family social work, kinesiology and physiotherapy; to cooperate in creating the desired changes with families; to implement knowledge into practice. Project will be beneficial for the families involved (20), the adults included in the exercise to increase mobility and promote an active lifestyle (50), students involved in this project (37), professionals and students by transferring the results into educational programs. With the participation of the Norwegian university (Høgskolen I Sør-Trøndelag) opportunity is opening for long-term cooperation between faculties.
General objective of the project:
- Reduced inequalities between user groups.
Specific objectives:
- Develop a model in SW for helping families in a community, with the cooperation of a foreign partner
- Training professionals in Family Social Work, kinesiology and physiotherapy
- Cooperating with families to bring changes in reducing the differences in health:
a) Establish IWPH to co-create the desired changes
b) Develop a set of exercises in order to reduce the differences in health
c) Finding solutions for family members with mobility problems - Implementing knowledge into practical work
Target groups:
Direct target groups:
- Families coping with complex problems (poverty, unemployment, violence, social exclusion, school failure, health issues, mental health problems, etc.) and whom system-oriented services and programs have greater difficulty reaching. The expected number of families involved is 20.
- 50 adults from low income families who will be invited to partake in the lifestyle changing exercise that we are formulating;
- 5th year students taking the master’s program Social work with families who will be working with the families; undergraduate and graduate students of physiotherapy and work therapy at the Faculty of Health Sciences, and undergraduate and graduate students of kinesiology at the Faculty of Sport. The students need support in transferring their theoretical knowledge into the sphere of practical work and in developing a professional identity. The expected number of students involved in the implementation of the project’s activities is 20 from the FSW, 7 from the FHS and 10 from the FS.
Indirect target groups:
- Professionals in the field of welfare (training of mentors aiding students in the course of their practical work in the context of a professional consultation, and professional staff in the context of restructuring the Centres for Social Work);
- undergraduate and graduate students at the FSW;
- Students at the FHS (undergraduate and graduate) studying physiotherapy and work therapy;
- Students at the FS (undergraduate and graduate) studying kinesiology.
