VILNIUS UNIVERSITY MEDICINE FACULTY OCCUPATIONAL THERAPHY PROGRAMME

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VILNIUS UNIVERSITY MEDICINE FACULTYOCCUPATIONAL
THERAPHYPROGRAMME
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Back to the childhood

• OT involving into the work with Street Children
  in summer camp

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Background of the project

• In Lithuania there are 3 millions 491 thousand
  people.
• According to the data from the Department of
  Statistics, in the beginning of the year 2005,
  there have lived 746,300 (20 ) children, 365,149
  boys and 350,070 girls.

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• 3267 children lost the ward ship of their
  parents.
• 41 of them were not older than 7.
• Only 10 of the children were orphans.
• The biggest part of homeless children was from
  the socially rotten families.

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• According to the data of the services of
  childs right protection, during the year 2005
  the number of orphans and homeless children has
  increased by 306 and at the end of the year the
  total number was 14,5 thousand, from which more
  than half had been taken care of in the families,
  the others in various children care institutions.

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• Children on the Street - children who spend
  most of their time working on the streets, yet
  keep in touch with their family and usually do
  not sleep on the streets. Street is the place
  where they can find a job, bed and panhandle in
  order to maintain their selves and support their
  family. (UNICEF provides with this definition)

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• Homeless youth are the individual younger than 18
  years old, living without the appropriate care of
  their parents, tutors or related institutions.
• A big part of homeless youth has left their home
  because of physical and emotional violence,
  harmful habits of family members and lack of
  attention from their parents.

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• We are going to perform our project because
  kids spending their time in streets are very
  urgent and painful problem in Lithuania.

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• Usually, these kids dont attend the school and
  cant get any profession or education
• Smoking, alcohol and drug usage is widespread
  among children of the street and already become
  part of their life
• The main part of street children suffer from
  physical violence (commonly boys) and sex abuse
  (commonly girls)
• Children, that take drugs and practice risky
  sexual behavior, have to be appreciated as a
  carries of dangerous disease in our society, like
  HIV/AIDS

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• On the 31st of January 2001 police established a
  Day centre for children, which was registered at
  Vilnius City municipality.
• The main task of this centre is early prevention
  of drug addiction and criminality by rendering
  social, psychological, material help and
  organizing leisure of street children and young
  people.
• The founder of the club is Vilnius City Chief
  Police Commissariat.

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• About 80 visitors of the centre are children
  entered in to the risk records and preventive
  police lists as well as teenagers from
  problematic, socially supportable and large
  families, who have violated the law, have
  difficulties in attending the school or learning,
  do not work or study, have affective and behavior
  problems and street children.

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• This centre organizes summer camp Funny team
  every summer. The camp is located in recreation
  territories, which is organizing childrens
  leisure and strengthening their health.
• Children spend 14 days in this camp, which is
  located in Rudininku village, in the base of
  Department of the Interior. There are military
  activities, sports, different games every day
  from morning till 4 p.m. After that children have
  free time.

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The aim of our project is to organize leisure
time for children (from 4 till 7 p.m. two month
July-August) in order to improve

• occupational performance,
• self-sufficiency,
• productivity,
• self-confidence,
• play,
• knowledge,
• social skills (communication, learning from each
  other, relationship, cooperation),
• emotional skills,
• cognitive skills,
• creative skills,
• solving problems.

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Our partners

• Organizational Division of Vilnius City Chief
  Police commissariat
• Department of the Interior (2nd regiment)
• Vilnius university (OT students)
• Children Law Office of Vilnius City

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Justification (1)Organizational Division of
Vilnius City Chief Police commissariat

• have a good experience working with the street
  children
• have a psychological, social and communication
  knowledge
• we had a contact with this partner early, we know
  about their working strategies
• policemen are very good example and authority for
  children

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Justification (2)Department of the Interior (2nd
regiment)

• camp place is very suitable (in the forest, near
  Vilnius) to use it for OT students fieldwork
  place
• the soldiers can help to improve children
  knowledge and skills through special trainings
• soldiers can ensure safety of children
• soldiers are very good example and authority for
  children

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Justification (3)Vilnius University (OT
students)

• students have experience working with children
• University can support our project materially

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Justification (4)Children Law Office of Vilnius
City

• supports projects related with street children
• materially support

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Project objectives

• Wider objectives
• The aim of our project is to involve OT into work
  with street children and organize leisure time
  for them.

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• Project-specific objectives
• To improve the street children occupational
  performance (productivity, self-care, play,
  self-confidence) cognitive skills creative
  skills emotional skills solving problems and
  self-sufficiency social skills (communication,
  learning from each other, relationship, and
  cooperation). To help children in physical and
  social environment adaptation.

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Assessment

• Interviewing (talking with the children, to
  identify childrens needs, what they like, what
  they want to do, what they expect)
• Observation (how children communicate, how they
  involve into group working)
• Questionnaire (for children, soldiers and other
  camp staff) (we think we need 2 questionnaire. 1
  for children, 2nd for the camp staff. Also we
  want to use questionnaire in the beginning of the
  camp (it can help to identify individual
  childrens needs and wishes), and in the end of
  camp (it can be indicators of progress, OT work)
• Analysis the OT work sustaining questionnaires
  and monitoring

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OT activities
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• Batika (clothes coloring)
• Herbs, flowers and other plants gathering
• Painting, origami
• Ceramics
• Application
• Social evening (dancing, singing)
• Activity with the star
• Different contests

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Work plan
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Management of the project

• Community based rehabilitation is very
  important for this project. OT should involve
  every partner in the project and OT activities.
  Partners taking part in OT activities will
  strengthen the motivation and satisfaction.

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OT role

• Identify OT performance problems
• Suggest OT activities
• Apply the activities during summer camp
• Identify results of OT implementation

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References

• http//www.policeclub.lt
• http//www.jppc.lt
• http//www.unicef.com
• http//www.sos-vaikai.lt
• http//www.visalietuva.lt
• http//www3.vdu.lt
• http//www.vrm.lt
• http//www.policija.lt
• http//www.pvc.lt
• http//www.sociumas.lt
• http//www.osf.lt
• http//www.aids.lt
• http//www.children.lt
• http//www.lrv.lt
• http//www.socmin.lt
• http//www.std.lt
• IP course material

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Thank you for attention!