The company OPS Sirius, in cooperation with the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and with a number of experts, prepared a project for the support of employees of children’s socio-legal protection authorities:

The project consists of two parts:

1. An accredited two-day educational program - "Methods and skills in performance of the socio-legal protection of children"
2. A series of supervisions (five hours of supervision per month for each center in a total length of one year)

The project is designed for:

• employees of children’s socio-legal protection authorities in the Czech Republic - municipalities with extended powers (approx. 1800 employees)

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM – “METHODS AND SKILLS IN PERFORMANCE OF THE SOCIO-LEGAL PROTECTION OF CHILDREN"

General information:

• a two day accredited educational program (in total, incl. accommodation, meals and transportation)
• an educational program taking place in parallel in 6 locations in the CR (Olomouc, Brno, Tábor, Pilsen, Hradec Králové, Mělník) – own choice of location
• start of the educational program: February 2012
• frequency of the educational program: every week, always on Thursday – Friday
• maximum capacity of 1 educational program in 1 location: 20 persons
• teaching format: interactive, group work, individualized
• a team of instructors is provided for each location: 2 instructors

Content of the educational program:

1^st DAY

Introduction

• Mapping of the participants’ expectations, assessment of their current skills and abilities in the area of the socio-legal protection of children

Human and legal aspects of the socio-legal protection of children

• The historic and theoretical context of socio-legal protection
• Legislative changes and approach to the socio-legal protection of children
• International experiences and contexts of the socio-legal protection of children

Socio-legal protection of children in the publication administration system

• The socio-legal protection of children in the state administration and self-administration system
• Definition of helping and controlling roles of socio-legal protection of children employees
• Methodical management of the performance of the socio-legal protection of children

Case management in the socio-legal protection of children

• Theoretic definition of the case management concept
• Methods and forms of case management work
• Cooperation with other helping entities, multi-disciplinary cooperation
• Case conference

Systematic work with endangered families/children

• Detection of endangered families/children
• Initiation phase of social intervention
• Assessment of the degree a child is endangered
• Creation of an individual plan for the protection of children
• Evaluating interventions
• Multi-disciplinary cooperation

2^nd DAY

Clients and their position in the system of the socio-legal protection of children

• Children and families as clients of socio-legal protection
• Reflections on clients’ perceptions of interventions by the socio-legal protection system
• Work with client expectations, needs and biases
• Protection of the rights of clients, rights to complaints etc.

Roles, powers, personality and values of socio-legal protection of children employees

• Personality and value characteristics of professional socio-legal protection employees
• Self-reflections of the value system and life experiences of professional socio-legal protection employees
• Systematic professional and personal growth of socio-legal protection of children employees

Professional support of socio-legal protection of children employees

• System help and support of socio-legal protection of children employees
• Supervisions, intervisions, Balint Groups
• Mentoring

Conclusion

• Participants’ feedback
• Overall evaluation and summary of the educational program, especially with regard for utility in practise

SERIES OF SUPERVISIONS

General information:

• 5 hours of supervision monthly for each center (3 hours for case supervision in a group, 2 hours for individual or team supervision depending on own choice)
• total length of the supervisions: 1 year (resp. 10 months, i.e., 10x 5 hours, except July and August)
• optimum number of persons for group supervision: 8 – 10 persons
  - multiple working groups are planned for centers with more than 10 employees
• - centers with a smaller number of employees will be merged with another center of their choice for the purposes of supervisions
• start of supervisions: February 2012