Organization Different

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Organization Different EqualAccommodation
and Reintegration of Former Albanian Trafficking
Victims

• Presented by
• Marjana Meshi
• Executive Director

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• THE GOAL
• - Provide sustainable and standardized services
  for former Albanian trafficking victims, and to
  contribute to the complete implementation of the
  Albanian National Anti-Trafficking Strategy.
• OBJECTIVES
• - Provide a complete short-term and long-term
  service package for trafficking victims in
  Albania.
• - Compliment other existing services in the area
  of anti-trafficking in the context of cooperation
  network against trafficking.

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REINTEGRATION ASSISTANCE FOR VICTIMS OF
TRAFFICKING IS DONE IN THREE STAGES

• Stage 1 - Accommodation at the Reintegration
  Center
• - Need identification and addressing.
• - Emotional stabilization and improvement of
  the psychological situation
• - Preparation of the beneficiary for the
  following stages of the reintegration process
• Every individual plan starts being
  implemented through
• Individual work with the beneficiaries
  consists of
• - counseling sessions with defined
  objectives,
• - vocational courses/training
• - preparation for resuming
  education/school, literacy courses,,
• - negotiation/intermediation with families
  for reestablishing relationships.
• Group work
• 1. Internal activities - discussions on
  various topics, social role plays, soires,
  readings, etc.
• 2. External activities - trips, sports
  events, cinema, shopping, visits, etc.

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MEDIUM-TERM AND LONG-TERM ACCOMMODATION

• Stage 2 Semi-independent life
• - Majors accommodation in apartments, monitored
  by social workers
• - Minors finding a foster family
• Stage 3 - Independent life
• The beneficiary is ready to cope with life
  independently.
• Monitoring and contacts continue

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REINTEGRATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR
BENEFICIARIES DURING REINTEGRATION STAGES

• - Employment and training services
• - Medical and health services
• - Individual or group psycho-social
• - Development of life skills during long-term
  reintegration
• - Legal assistance
• - Negotiation and intermediation with the family
• - Assistance for enrolling at/resuming school
• - Financial support for housing
• - Social assistance
• - Monitoring and follow-up of program
  beneficiaries

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CHALLENGES OF WORKING WITH FORMER TRAFFICKING
VICTIMS

• Re-establishing contacts with the family
• Finding foster families for minors
• Their social network is very weak and the work
  for recovering lost contacts and establishing new
  ones is difficult.
• Long-term reintegrating accommodation with the
  necessary support services is still limited for
  the increasing number of young and parent
  victims.
• Finding jobs for former victims remains difficult
  due to various reasons. Therefore, there is still
  frequent circulation in the labor market, and
  continuous monitoring is necessary as well as
  provision of counselling for beneficiaries in
  order to establish effective links with
  vocational training institutions and small
  skill-learning enterprises.

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• Many beneficiaries ask for more health services
  than the rest of the population, related
  particularly to SST, or being a migrant
  population they are vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.
• Beneficiaries lack social skills and literacy, an
  issue which needs to be addressed in order to
  achieve their long-term reintegration into the
  society.
• Monitoring and follow-up of the cases when they
  leave the program and resume their independent
  life

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• THANK YOU
• FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
• 
  October 2005