Accompanied accommodation or foster care?

From 27 to 29 August, a workshop was held in Polotsk for employees of the departments of accompanied accommodation of house-boarding schools and territorial centers of social services on organizing comprehensive support for graduates of house-boarding schools for children and young people with disabilities. The seminar was also attended by representatives of the Labor Research Institute of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Republic of Belarus.
Employees of the departments of accommodation for house-boarding schools and territorial centers of social services received important knowledge and skills related to the main aspects and methods of preparing pupils of departments for regaining their legal capacity and graduating from institutions, to the organization of post-graduate support, professional training, employment and independent living of graduates, to the right which people with disabilities have and their implementation, to employment opportunities, accommodation issues, e types and forms of social assistance and ways to receive it.
We hope that this event will have a significant impact on preparing the pupils of the departments of accompanied accommodation to regain their legal capacity and exit from boarding houses and will help to organize the process of post-graduate support for graduates of boarding schools including the support provided in social hostels more effectively.