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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

• Health and Social Needs of Communities
• University Involvement
• Irena Gryga,
• PhD, MD, Head of the School of Public Health,
  Head of the School of Social Work
• Tetyana Semigina,
• PhD, MSW, Head of the Graduate Program in Social
  Work

2 July, 2004
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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla
AcademyObjectives

• Stress the necessity for SPHs to tune on real
  health and social needs and provide appropriate
  education, research, and consultancy
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• Share the experience of NaUKMA SSW and SPH in
  working within the community context

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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla
AcademyThe role of Schools includes

• Education
• Research
• Consultancy
• Advocacy
• Facilitating the healthcare reforming process
• II
• V
• Learning

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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla
AcademySchool of Social Work (SSW)

• First professional School in Ukraine
• Established in 1994 (TEMPUS/TACIS project )
• Partners London School of Economics (UK),
  University of Oporto (Portugal), Anglia
  Polytechnic University (UK), Alice Salomon
  Fachhochshule (Gemarny), Ljubliana University
  (Slovenia)
• Started with a Master program for people with the
  different background
• Member of European and International Associations
  of SSW
• Social Work is still a new profession in Ukraine

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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla
AcademyEducational Programs of SSW

• Bachelor program in SW
• Master program in SW with two concentrations
• Social Administration
• Counseling (individual, group, family)
• Post-graduate program (aspirantura)
• Modular courses
• "Practical social work"
• "Innovation and supervision in the social
  sphere"
• "Training of consultants and supervisors of
  social projects"
• "Methods of teaching of social work and social
  policy"
• "Methodology of research in social work and
  social policy.
•  Tailored courses upon request of NGOs
• Advocacy in SW
• SW with Children
• Applied Social Policy and Community-Based
  Programs.

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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla
AcademyCommon ground of Social Work and
Public Health

• Values
• people first
• acceptance of diversity and difference
• recognition of peoples rights
• participation
• quality of life
• empowerment
• advocacy
• Knowledge and Practice
• interrelation of health and social problems
• interdisciplinary approach
• quality assurance of services provision and
  clients satisfaction

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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

• Courses taught in SSW include topics
• Health Care Management
• Health Policy and Health Policy Analyses
• Health Education
• Prevention of HIV/AIDS
• Prevention of alcohol and drug abuse
• Reproductive health, sexual health and risky
  behavior.

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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla
AcademyPractice placements include
health-related services

• Hospitals
• Health Centers
• Centers for Family Planning
• Community Health Projects
• Harm Reduction projects
• Centres for Refugees
• Prevention of Smoking, Alcohol, Drug Use, HIV at
  Schools
• Health Education of Teenagers
•  So, the education at SSW includes Community
  health sciences

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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla
AcademyThesis requirements/characteristics

• 1. Needed/ ordered applied research
• stage of innovative projects implementation
  justification, monitoring, evaluation,
• improvement of existing service/ practice
• organizational diagnosis for changes and
  improvement description of the social phenomenon
• exploration of socialhealth needs
• 2. Practical component
• Participation/ implementation of innovative
  practical project (action research)
• 3. Positive impact (on practice or policy)
• 4. Good recommendations and dissemination of
  results (publishing, participations in
  conferences).
• So, students use their skills and knowlege for
  pushing new ideas, providing critical thinking
  regarding established practice

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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla
AcademyExamples of thesis

• Harm Reduction Program in Ukraine evaluation and
  ways of development
• Research on tobacco and alcohol consumption among
  youngsters in Dniepropetrovsk
• Perspectives of reforming of psychiatric services
  system in Ukraine expectations of professionals.
• Evaluation of the Tobacco Use Prevention
  Trainings in 20 secondary schools in Kyiv
• Prevention of early social orphanhood in Ukraine
  project of Charitable Organization Hopes and
  homes for children
• The model of community care for HIV-infected
  children (example of NGO Our family)
• Functionning of family houses supported by
  Charitable Organization Hopes and homes for
  children problems and needs of parents, family
  relations, emotional status and selfesteem of
  children

 
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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla
AcademyPractical projects of SSW

• Trainings for professionals working with HIV/AIDS
  (1995-7)- educational
• SocialHealth needs of rural communities in
  Donetsk region (1998) research
• Development of innovative solutions for Community
  Based Social Services Delivery Programs and
  Social Investment Funds (2003) - consultancy
• Reintegration of homeless women in Kyiv integral
  approach on the local level (2002-2005)
  action-research, consultancy, trainings,
  supervision
• Students role research assistants,
  interviewers, volunteers.

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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla
AcademyGraduates employment

• Health-connected settings
• Health promotion projects
• Policy consultant projects, international donor
  organizations

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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla
AcademyDirect advocacy

• Example 1 Support for the development of the
  community care for people with learning
  difficulties
• Participation in drafting the city program
• Participation in drafting the Ukrainian program
• Lobbying
• Students participation in the services delivery
  (practice, volunteering, evaluation)
• Trainings for specialists
• Trainings for careers
• Example 2 Consultancy for the production of
  brochure on legal issues of HIV/AIDS.
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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla
AcademyInformationcommunication(indirect
advocacy)

• Conferences
• Round tables
• Students Club
• Journals
• Social Policy and Social Work
• Magisterium Social Work and Public Health
• Books, textbooks, teaching guidelines
• Library

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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Our clients/partners

• Studentsgraduates
• Practitionerseducationists
• NGOsstate agencies
• Governmental institutionsinternational
  organizations

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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla AcademySPH
mission

• Mission of the School is to meet needs of society
  for public health improvement and strengthening
  of the reforming process in health care of
  Ukraine through training of professionals,
  providing of high quality teaching, research and
  consultancy.
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• School provides possibilities for training and
  retraining of health care professionals according
  to international standards and needs of
  Ukrainian society

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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla
AcademyGRADUATES COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS

• School graduates will be able to
• Plan and implement primary, current and final
  evaluation of health care service
• Apply management principles and cost benefit
  analysis to service in health care sphere
• Evaluate community demands for health care
• Apply concept of quality assurance and service
  evaluation
• Understand links between policy and practice
  conduct health policy analysis
• Conduct health care research using quantitative
  and qualitative methods.

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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla AcademySPH
- activities

• Experience
• Participation in pan-Ukrainian review of the
  Draft Law on Health Care Financing and Social
  Health Insurance
• Establishing of the journal Magisterium Social
  Work and Public Health
• Developing the curriculum of Master Program in
  Health care management, preparation country
  relevant materials and cases

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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
SPH - activities

• Plans
• Start the Master Program in Health Care
  Management on September 2004
• Offer Master Program in Health Care Management
  for international participants
• Deliver the modular course on Women Health in
  fall 2004
• Develop and deliver country specific Flagship
  courses on Health system reform and sustainable
  financing in 2005
• Establish Journal on PH issued in English

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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

• Faculties
• Social Sciences and Technologies
• Humanities
• Economics
• Natural Sciences
• Law
• Computer Sciences
• Business School
• The University as a hole serves to the community
  as an educational, scientific, cultural and
  spiritual center.