PROJECT DESCRIPTION
From November 2008 till November 2010 Children of Slovakia Foundation (CSF) through the team of the Education Centre was a partner in the “Innovative Approach to Professionalisation of Work with Children” international project financed from the EU Funds – from the Grant Scheme of Leonardo da Vinci Program.
The Project is coordinated by a Romanian organisation Civil Society Development Foundation (Fundaţia Pentru Dezvoltarea Societăţii Civile, www.fdsc.ro) and there is also involved a Dutch NGO International Child Development Initiatives (www.icdi.nl).
Children of Slovakia Foundation (1995)
is well-known non-governmental non-profitable organization in Slovakia, focusing exclusively on children and young people. It supports interesting and quality programs, which sensitively and creatively respond to the needs of children and young people by either providing grants or through education. CSF have an extensive track record in the field of child and youth development issues, stimulation life skills and competences and encouragement of life long learning among the other professionals working directly with children and youth. CSF has been supporting development and implementation of innovative programmes into the existing formal and non-formal educational systems and has been cooperating with other institutions working in this field. It is the member of worldwide International Youth Foundation network.
Civil Society Development Foundation
is a nongovernmental, independent, non-profit organization founded in 1994, with at the initiative of the European Commission.
CSDF is actively involved at both national and European level in the public dialogue between civil society and authorities, and between national and international organizations.
Through information, financing, research, training and advocacy, CSDF aims to develop the capacity of civil society organizations and communities to improve people’s life.
CSDF’s research helped the public sector and the major international donors, active in Romania, to design their policies, based on relevant information regarding the impact of the NGO projects in society. Our studies were focused on issues like Romanian NGO sustainability, the associative and philanthropic behaviour in Romania, the influence of legislation on the associative life, social economy, corruption in public administration etc.
ICDI
promotes the well-being of children growing up in difficult circumstances. ICDI works to improve the policies and practices which affect these children by conducting research and training and developing programmes together with partner organisations. ICDI believes in the power of children and young people, supporting their rights and addressing the underlying causes for the problems they face. ICDI has 8 core staff members with international experience in the areas of programme management, policy development, training, teaching and research. In addition, we work with a pool of specialists, consultants and resource persons whose services are used on a short-term basis for specific assignments, either at ICDI headquarters or in the field.
IUVENTA
The Slovak Youth Institute is a state organization, directly managing by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of SR. Its area of interest is work with youth outside the school and the family and youth policy in Slovakia and outside as well.
The aim of the activities is the implementation of the state policy towards young people and children.
Čo deti potrebujú
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In what new situations we can see children today?
- Increasingly young children at the computer
- Preparation for school at the computer in the child's room
- Tiny baby playing with a cell phone
- Obese children in countries, which were always known because of the lack of the food (e.g. India, China)
- Teenaged girls, but also boys, suffering of eating disorders
- Two years old boy killed by two ten years old boys in a shopping centre
- Children soldiers and children suicidal assassins
- Young people close themselves in in their room and stops communicating with their surrounding, they only accept food from outside (Hikikomori phenomenon in Japan)
- 14-15 years old girls as models on the world fashion stages and magazines' first pages
- Group violence, bullying with a new phenomenon – recording of the violence on the cell phone and its spreading through the web
- Children in ads and commercials; publicity targeted on the youngest age categories
- Virtual friendships of children, their new identities
- Violence in increasingly young age
- Girls who “equal” boys, e.g. in drinking
- Children in multicultural and “atypical” families
About 20 years ago Rekha Wazir and Nico van Oudenhoven for the Dutch organisation ICID started to pay attention to phenomenon, events and needs, which related to children and were non-standard, heterogeneous and attracted attention of adults and media.
They started to ask the following questions:
Are these phenomenons interconnected/related?
Do they have potential to grow and become important?
Are we supposed to solve “old” needs of children and youth?
Can we “afford” to look into the future?
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How to fulfil children's needs?
Conference participants selected the following four areas of priority activities which lead to fulfilling of NENs of children and they suggested adults' tasks and responsibilities with respect to the selected areas.
1. Paying attention to children, communicating with children with respect
What is necessary to do for that (adults' tasks and responsibilities):
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look at problems also by children's eyes
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learn to respect each other
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be authentic, act authentically, speak true
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use effective communication, e.i. active listening, cooperative problem solving, uncovering our stereotypes in communication
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perform targeted activities for parents and children
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develop parental skills and competencies (strengthen parenthood)
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implement projects – training courses for adults and children to develop their social and personal skills
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use training courses and education for parents, and if necessary also therapies for parents and children
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offer training of communication skills to schools and teachers
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support teachers in achieving competencies for Highly Effective Teaching
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NEWLY EMERGING NEEDS OF CHILDREN
on Tuesday, 12th October, 2010, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
at Trenkwalder a.s., Bratislava, Námestie 1. mája 18
Conference is being held as a part of the project
INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO PROFESIONALISATION OF WORK WITH CHILDREN
financed by Leonardo da Vinci Program and co-financed by Iuventa.
Objectives of the Conference
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Spreading the concept of newly emerging needs (NENs) of children in Slovakia
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Providing examples of positive responses to NENs
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Sharing experiences with development of the topic of NENs of children
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Posledné diskusné príspevky |
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TOOLKIT_NEN_ENG.pdf