Realization of Right to a Family is a Trend in Belarus

Specialists who are engaged in the work in social sphere and education, representatives of public associations, specialists of higher education, training social teachers are united by the theme of realizing the rights of children to life and upbringing in the family.
Belarus is confidently following the path of keeping a child in a family. The meeting, presentations of projects, discussions of all specialists within the framework of the interdepartmental conference "Achievements, Problems and Prospects of Interdepartmental Cooperation on the Comprehensive Deinstitutionalization of Children and Youth", organized by SOS Children's Villages, Belarus, created the attitude that a child can only be helped by helping his family.
Therefore, well-established interagency cooperation in preventing institutionalization is so important: identifying dysfunctional families, assessing the potential of a family to raise children and determining the needs for social support. Deinstitutionalization, the fundamental principle of which is interdepartmental interaction, is impossible without a reliable partnership to solve the problems of reintegrating children with disabilities into their own families and reintegrating into a substitute families.
The roadmap for the deinstitutionalization of the residents of Ivenets house-boarding institution was presented at this conference as an already created management tool based on the mechanisms of interdepartmental interaction. Specialists of territorial centers, social pedagogical centers, centers for development and education, representatives of the University named after. M. Tank were able to get acquainted with the advantages of the Roadmap:

proposals for improving legislation to ensure the expansion of the process of deinstitutionalization of children with special needs;
stages of work on deinstitutionalization, which are accompanied by methodological recommendations and forms of documents that have been tested in practice;
mechanisms for a comprehensive assessment of the individual needs of the family, taking into account the available resources to ensure the continuity and systemic nature of social support;
mechanisms for reorienting the activities of residential social service institutions towards deinstitutionalization;
approaches to improve social respite services (babysitting services);
approaches to creating conditions for the activation of the non-state sector, including the implementation of the state social order.
We offer cooperation with all stake-holders with the goal that children with disabilities will be brought up in a family and successfully socialized. We are in touch: wwb@tut.by.