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BI Klaipeda city social support centre
Liepu str. 15 Klaipeda
Phone + 370 46 311185, fax: +370 46 486678

Other national partners:

1. PI Large familys information and support centre
2. PI Klaipėda labour market education center
3. BI Klaipėda children crisis center
4. JSC NRD

DP Budget:

Action 1 Budget – 8.6020,00 Lt
Action 2 Budget – 1.055,653,00 Lt

1. Women with an age before pension
2. Long-term unemployed women
3. Social risk families, who have children

Strengthening the family as the most important institution for children’s socialization process having applied in practice and having integrated new model of good practice into the social policy of Republic of Lithuania enabling women pre-retirement age women after a long period of unemployment to enter labour market on equal terms.

1. To develop and implement “Development of social services for families with children” model, an innovative support model of employment for women in long unemployment and of pre-retirement age, taking into consideration good international practice.
2. To share the experience of implementing and using social services for families with children with other municipalities in Lithuania.

Product inovations

Qualitatively new training program for nannies – helper –social worker for social workers:

• Housekeepers training program revised and extended to fit requirements for nannies-helper- social worker for social workers profession;
• Registered as official training program for qualification raising.
  

Technological inovations

• Online labor exchange for nannies- social workers :
• Allows nannies to present more data about themselves;
• Allows families to evaluate qualifications instead of guessing about them;
• Makes selection process more professional;
• Available for all people that currently participate in the “black market” of nannies- social workers.
• Registers nannies CV, resumes, references, availability hours and other preferences;
• Multi-criteria search mechanisms;
• Special VIP status for nannies- social workers that completed the training in the project;

Social inovations

System for enhancing volunteers work in families with social risks:

• Establishment of new enterprise according to home start international system;
• Adjusting all Home-start international legislation to the local settings;
• Promotion for enhancing volunteers work in families with social risks.

New way of training nannies – helper for social workers:

• Theory combined with motivation;
• Theory combined with practice;
• Practice after training;
• Tools to follow-up after training.

Activities:

- Informational system filling; The activities of DP are pointed to creating and testing new innovative model in Lithuania also dispersion of its results in Lithuania and Europe Union. This activity is needed because it guarantees opportunities for, 60 women who are near pension age and were unemployed a long time, actively attend in labour market as soon as they finish learning course and achieve qualification of nanny/social worker.

Activity of DP is oriented to consolidation of model helping families that have children in Klaipeda city, region and Lithuania, so the creation of model is very important to Klaipeda citizens, Lithuania and EU.

Done activities:
-Creation of requirements for research;
-Selection of research executor;
-Execution of research according to requirements
-Purchase of expert services, who will value the reseach;
-Value of research;
-Organization of seminar to present the rezults of research;
-Preparation of pulications about research and publication of them;
-Preparation fo modified education programme;
-Considerations of modified education programme;
-Affirmation of education programme (aprobation);
-Determination of assesment tools for selection of target group (nanny-social worker helper modified education programme and Home-Start International adapted programme)
-Purchase of exepert services;
-Valuation of assesment tools (nanny-social worker helper modified education programme and Home-Start International adapted programme);
-Organization of round table with labour market representatives;
-Formation of selection commision;
-Preparation of pulications about project and target group selection and publication of them;
-Social workers – practice leaders education services purchase contest organization;
-Target group selection nanny-social worker helper modified education prgramme and Home-Start International adapted programme);
-Teaching of selected target group women under nanny-social worker helper modified education programme;
-Public purchase for education courses under adapted Home-Start International methodics.
-Creation of rulebook for Home-Start International subdivision in Lithuania
-Registration of Home-Start International subdivision in Lithuania.
-Home-Start Lithuania registration as Home-Start International member;
-Adaptation of Home-Start International help for family methodics, recenzation and aprovment (aprobation);
-Preparation of specification for technical base and internet informational system;
-Creation of Virtual nanny- social worker helper informational system under prepared informational system specification;
-Creation of interactive virtual nanny- social worker helper market design and it‘s appliance to created informational system;
-Purchase of technical base needed to keep up the virtual nanny- social worker helper informational system;
-Selection and registration of internet adress needed to reach virtual nanny- social worker helper informational system;
-Presentation of Virtual nanny- social worker helper informational system;
- Courses for project staff whoi‘s responsible for use of virtual nanny- social worker helper informational system;
- Preparation of activity procedures manual
- Creation of public purchases plan.

Regular activities:
- Maintenence of nanny- social worker helper virtual market informational and technical base;
- Public purchases;
- Project team meetings;
- Activities suited with creation of transnational cooperation products;
- Press conferences;
- Publication of articles;

- Project team objective seminars;
- Organization of round tables;
- Attendance in TV shows.

Underway activities:
- Production of signboards in busstops;
- Production of easels;
- Production of placards.

Planned results:

• Evaluated activities of I round.
• Researches and studies. There will be made reasearh defining the need and impact of the model.
• There will be made nanny-social worker helper modified education programme.
• Not less than 55 qualified nannies – social worker helpers will be prepapred.
• Home-Start International adapted for Lithuania needs programme of managers preparation will be prepared.
• 15 Home-Start managers will be prepared under modified programme.
• Home-Start International subdivision in Lithuania will be established.
• There will be created and tested virtual nanny- social worke helper labour market and informational system and manuals of it.
• Project results will be presented to society and politics.
• There will be created two transnational products.

• Home-Start International adapted for Lithuania needs programme of managers preparation will be prepared.
• 15 Home-Start managers will be prepared under modified programme.
• Home-Start International subdivision in Lithuania will be established.
• Project results will be presented to society and politics.
• There will be created two transnational products.

Prospective impact:

• There will be long-term informational – commercial impact to society.
• The motivation of target group to integrate into labour market will grow up.
• The motivation of employers will grow up and the format of it will change, they will get more information about European practice.
• The level of target group unemployment and social disjuncture will decrease.
• There will be less problems suited with children liberties protection in social risk families.

Improving home care services

DPs involved

Netherlands

De Witte Motor

Portugal

ADAPT – Apoio domiciliario na Amadora em Parceria

Italy

Nuove famiglie, nuovo welfare mix tra pubblico e privato sociale

Lithuania

Women giving Job Model

Activities:

The methodology to pursue common interests is:

• Exchanging information on current situation in each country/region/city
• Exchanging approaches developed in each national project
• Face-to-face meetings of experts and trainers
• Joint development of new approaches, tools, instruments
• Implementing new approaches, tools and instruments

Planned results:

Transnational cooperation products:
I. Overview of needs, overview of existing and new innovative home care
services
o Survey of needs, mapping of needs against current services,
identified areas for innovations
o Overview of services that can be improved (and how)
o Overview of new innovative home care services
II. A set of selection criteria and assessment tools to enable selection
of participants of the project from the disadvantaged groups
III. Training modules and coaching modules
o Certified and accredited training modules
o Coaching modules
IV. Best practices how to deliver the home care services
o Description of the governance models in which is described how
national/regional/local public authorities work together with
regional/local NGO’s and commercial institutions to deliver
home care services to the citizens
o The business plan for service providers of home care services
V. Quality standards and evaluation methods
o Quality standards for delivering the home care services
o Evaluation methods how to evaluate the service deliveries of
the service providers (customer satisfaction, operational
performance, cost/price quotients etc)

GAIA

DPs involved

Spain

REDESpor la Igualdad: Reduccion de desequilibrios de genero en el Bierzo

Italy

Donne in politica

France

SORTIR

Lithuania

Women giving Job Model

Activities:

Concerning the activities of the development projects, the trans-national cooperation aims at:

• Exchanging information on experiences and results.
• Increasing the value of the national projects.
• Making propositions on methods that can be transferred between zones and/or work collectivises.
• Motivating the different trans-national partners to participate in the development of the program.
• Widely spreading the trans-national results.
• Applying the concept of equality between men/women throughout the trans-national program.

Planned results:

Transnational cooperation products:
-A web page extranet for exchanging information and work in common.
-The printing of joint materiel and in particular:
o A repertory of good practices (which includes bibliographies, methods, legislation, work agreements)
o A text on the model and tutor system for women (balance of work, family and social life).
o A manual on the cognitive and cultural problems in a woman’s political and social life with their solutions found (eg: sexist language, stereotype images of women in the mass-media and in the general culture,…).
Also, the collaboration between the different countries’ projects will allow:
- The comparison and dialogue on common subjects between similar actors from different countries (eg: mayors, trade-unionists, entrepreneurs) by visits and exchanges.
-The elaboration of an operational model of action, for the enterprises and complex organisations, on the “tutoring” of women.