IN.VO

1. IN.VO Inclusion of People with disabilities through the inclusion of Volunteers

2. What are we going to tell you today? • Problematic • Methodology • Diagnosis • Ethical considerations • Intervention methodology • Expected results • Final considerations

3. Social problem and problematic • As a matter of fact, the Social Sciences, as Psychology or Educational Sciences, normally has a silence about the disability issue (Barner & Mercer, 2005: 532). • The wide project of modernity has invented a way to normalize the behavior, control the deviance and regulate conducts so that can get some predictability (Magalhães & Stoer, 2005). • The identity of “mad people” is a stigmatized identity(Goffman, 2006). • “Mental disorder” is questionable or, at least, a social construction. • Citizenship is seen as a set of rights and duties that State guarantee and make a subject a citizen within three kinds of rights: civic (i.e., right to express), political (i.e., right to vote) and social (i.e., right to be paid for a work) (Marshall, 1950). • Charity/Assistencialism versus Rights. • The politization of disabilities began in 1960’s in order to deinstitutionalize. Since then disabled people were seen as helpless victims, disabilities as a personal tragedy. • 1981 of Disabled People’s International, comprising organizations controlled by disabled people, and the United Nations nominating 1981 as the International Year of Disabled People - “paradigm shift” -.

4. Methodology, method • Our methodology to research in order to make the diagnosis of institution was an ethnographic approach. • Our option for ethnographic approach is justified by being this register the most appropriate to get (some) access to the context, the micro or local context, inserted into the macro environment (in this case, Slovakia) and the institutional culture of this particular organization. • The entrance into the context demands a particular attention and a constant vigilance and negotiation (Silva, 2004) with the Others, the discourses, the relations of power. • Science is «(…) a condensed node in an agonistic power field» (Haraway, 1988: 577). • Standing point as researchers.

5. Macro-contexts • 1. Until 1989: There were no acts or laws regarding disabled people because they were refused by communist regime and communist ideology. • 2. After 1989: After the fall of communism, CzechoslovakSocialisticRepublic changedintothe CzechoslovakFederalRepublic. • 3. Between 1993 and the present day: In January 1st 1993 the Slovak Republic was born and in the 1st of May 2004 it became a part of European Union. Slovak government adopted many laws in social policy, some about disabled people

6. Micro-contexts • tries to provide social care for people with disabilities and mental illness • to increase their self-realization and independence. Basically the aim is to live independently. • It has been opened since 1991, being present 85 clients divided in two groups: those with social needs and those with mental health problems; there are also 58 employees, which include social workers, therapists and medical personnel, among others. They are most old people and male and can be there since 18; they can come from internalization or transference for whatever reason. • periphery of the village • They have lots of activities and services: Psychology, Nursing, Basic Counseling, Woodworking, Ergotherapy, Textile Work, Work Therapy, Assistance in Kitchen, Photography, Dance, Music Therapy and Computer. Sometimes they organize groups discussion and football matches. They have library, a common room, gymnasium, relaxing room, snodezelen, and canteen. In “Open Days”, they’re used to organize fairs to sell some products which they theirselves made.

7. Diagnosis • SWOT-table

8. Ethical considerations • Ethical is an aspect that sometimes it seems to be ignored or forgotten in investigation or intervention • Ethical of the care (Held, 2006) • “(…) Gaining informed consent, ensuring confidentiality/privacy, sustaining rapport and gaining trust, protecting participants from harm” (Anning, s/d: 66).

9. Intervention methodology • Timeline, management and sustainability • Recruitment phase • Intervention phase • Monitoring and evaluation

10. Timeline, management and sustainability • Project management • Transdisciplinary team • Volunteer coordinator • Educational mediator • Psychologist

11. Timeline, management and sustainability

12. Pre-test • Questionnairs and interviews • See what the clients need and want • Get a view on the villagers’ perspective

13. Contact and cooperation with institutions • Organise a meeting with other social organizations • Goal: Get other perspectives • After meeting report • Every three months send email to organizations to keep them posted

14. Recruitment phase Professionals Volunteers • Educational mediators • Psychologists • Social workers • Physical therapists • Psychiatrics • Contact between people of the village and people of the institution • Ability to respect and work with the topic group • Social skills • Daily care • Entertainment • First aid • Group mediation • Education

15. Formation of volunteers • After three weeks volunteers will be divided over diffirent tasks based on their skills and interests

16. Intervention phase • Town sensibilization • Integration • Inclusion • More prominent place in the community

17. Town sensibilization

18. Integration • Tearing down thefence • Extension ofchurchservices: • Lunch • Theatreact • Sport activities • Cultural events: • Lectures • Music nights • Theatre • Comedy

19. Integration • Participating in lifeofthevillage: • Visit Coffee shops • Userecreationabilities • Go forwalks

20. Inclusion and more prominent place in the community 1. To involve more people from village in events and develop inclusion of people with disabilities into public 2. To forge closer ties between village people and people with disabilities 3. To include volunteers giving them more responsibility and power 4. To improve the financial position of institution

21. Events • The first event is an exhibition of wood products made by people with disabilities • The aims of this event are to show that people with disabilities can be useful to society through their works and collect money

22. Another event is coffee afternoon with people with disabilities • The aims of this event are to forge closer ties between village people and people with disabilities and collect money. This event will be in the church parish • The third event is an evening of music • The aims of this event are to show musical skills of people with disabilities and change opinion about these people

23. Help from church with voluntariat work • Maybe church can give a place for garden, where people with disabilities and volunteers could grow vegetables • Church also can help in volunteer recruitment

24. Inclusion of volunteers • Volunteers in this case will have more responsibility • Volunteers not only teach clients basic skills, they mazalso serve as role models to eachother.

25. More prominent place in community • Recruiting of volunteers to help disabled people in this context could be done by using two sectors: • 1. The government sector–local authorities • 2. The non–government sector–church

26. More prominent place in community • The integration of jobseekers into the labor market dual training and supported employment.

27. Positives: removing barriers between healthy people and people with disabilities, removing prejudices of public for people with disabilities, creation a new social relations, getting a new skills, possibility of applying. • Negatives: low qualification level of jobseekers, prejudices, risk factors of jobseekers, apathy to solve their social situation. • Problems: misunderstanding purpose of education and preparation, lax approach of employees of labor office in addressing unemployment this form, simplifies administration.

28. Monitoring and evaluation

30. Expected Results • For the people of the village, this could be an opportunity to make their community grow, by feeling more accepting of those that are being excluded from this community, for coming in contact with other realities, to give and be given the possibility to experience new people and new situations and to develop their skills and knowledge further • For those who live with some kind of disability, the opportunity to be active and help, instead of being mainly helped, and to expand their horizons regarding the world and be given a shot at social life could be very important. • .For the volunteers, life experience and various kinds of skills and competences are to be expected as well. • For the new and old staff, could come as a way to further their skills, to see their work come into fruition and to be able to deal more effectively with the stress and emotional discharge that are part of working with this topic group.

31. Expected Results • After this project is over, we also expect this village and its community to continue to grow, to face difficulties and to enjoy successes together, for the most part at least.

32. Final considerations • Limitations • Potentialities

33. Thank you for your attention! 