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Peer To Peer Trainings For Mothers With Special Kids

2017-1-TR01-KA204-0468202017Strategic Partnerships for adult educationfinalized
Countries: TR|SI|RO|EL · Grant: €124,196
Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) - basic skillsDisabilities - special needs

Project summary

This project is a KA2 Strategic Partnership Project: Engeli olan Bireyler ve Aileleri Gelisim Merkezi Dernegi,IASISAsociatia pentru Promovarea Egalitatii intre Tineri - ADAPTO and Zavod za izobrazevanje in inkluzijo ODTIZ are partner of project. ü Most of studies and projects focus just on individual with disabilities, not also on their family members. Training for family members, especially for mothers, is really important because families care for and teach individual with disabilities. So Our project focuses on women who have a family member with disability. These women will get trained in 4 main topics about issues of persons with disability. Then they will pass on their knowledge and train another persons who has a family member with disability and same needs and problems. Because we believe that experiences are really important- person will be trained and support other person who has same situations. Turkish people use a folk poem “shouldn’t ask doctor, should ask experienced oæane because experienced one knows illness better than doctor”. We will choose 16 women per country, they will get certificates from the program, they will become “a multiplier” and they will train other 24 women who have a family member with disability and their relative We will organize local “multiplier” event in the project and involve local persons who have a family member with disability in the project. Project’aim -To raise the capacity of women, who have a family member/child with physical and/or mental disability - to raise the awareness about Disability rights declared by UN and signed by all EU countries and Turkey. - To educate/train the target group about Technology usage in order - to benefit from Public services - to raise the capacity of NGO's which are working directly with people with disabilities and their families about Adult Education Techniques and Methodologies. - to support the target group about the importance of education inside the family. develop their own methods and they need support in this process. The project has 5 main results. 1. To build info desk in each partner organization in order to inform/to assist/to support the families with persons with disabilities about their rights and opportunities for them. 2. To activate and motivate the target group to take initiatives in NGO's in order to support families under the same conditions like them. 3. To raise the capacity of NGO workers/volunteers/adult educators about Adult Education Methodologies and Techniques. 4. To create a Training Module for NGO workers about Adult Education in Disability field. 5. To prepare Manuel for Adults and Training Kit for the target Group about the basic educational techniques you can use at home. I Our fist participant group involves women who will become “multiplier” and all trained after first. 16 woman per country Our second participant group involves women who have a family member with disability and their family member. 24 woman and 24 member Our third participant group involves persons who have a family member with disability. Each partner will invite people to local “multiplier” event 100 person who has a members with disability for Turkey ad Greece, 60 person who has a members with disability for Sllovenia and Romania Methodology Our first participants group is women who will become “multiplier”. Each partner will recruit 16 women. We will work on 4 topics about persons with disability and adult education in project’s learning teaching and training activities phase. Physical Activity & Healthy Nutrition, IT, Self Confidence and Personal Care are our topics. Each partner will be responsible for one of them. Each partner will work on their topic and develop a training course about it. Each partner will separate 16 women in 4 groups. A group per country will get training about one topic. They will get together in training course about their topic in local environment of partner responsible for specific training topic. After all trainings we will have 2 training in Greece and Turkey about adult education. Greece will be responsible about trainings. 8 women per country will be involved in this training. After learning teaching and training activities phase we will start project’s implementation phase. These women will be “multiplier” and our second participant group will be separate in 4 groups. Each group will get a training about one topic, this trainings will train by “multiplier” who already did training about specific topic and then they will work on this topic during 1 month. The project has 5 main project phase, all activities under this 5 phase. 1. Our first phase is Administration & Partnership Phase 2. Our Second phase is Research leading by Romania. 3. Our third phase is Trainings of Adults leading by Greece 4. Our Fourth phase is local trainings for adults leading by Slovenia 5 Our Fifth phase is Dissemination & PR leading by Turkey Projects tool box will be prepared and it will pu

Final report summary

This project was a KA2 Strategic Partnership in the field of Adult Education. It has been coordinated by EBAGEM- Engeli olan Bireyler ve Aileleri Gelisim Merkezi Dernegi- from Turkey and the partner organizations were IASIS NGO From Greece, Asociatia pentru Promovarea Egalitatii intre Tineri - ADAPTO from Romania and Zavod za izobraževanje in inkluzijo ODTIZ from Slovenia. The project was based on peer to peer trainings in adult education and designed on 5 main objectives. The partner organisations have taken the project objectives in consideration in every steps, activities, events and meetings of the projects. These objectives are: -To raise the Trainings capacities of caregivers of the people with physical and/or mental disability - To raise the awareness about Disability rights declared by the UN and signed by all EU countries and Turkey. - To educate/train the family members, particularly mothers, of the people with special needs about Technology usage, Physical activities & Healthy nutrition, self care at home and self esteem. - to raise the capacity of NGOs which are working directly with people with disabilities and their families about Adult Education Techniques and Methodologies. - to support the target group about the importance of education inside the family, and provide them support in this process. In order to achieve the project objectives, many activities have been realised in 4 partnering countries with regard to project Gantt chart. Firstly, researches have been run in all countries and the results reported. After that a manual was prepared for the families of people with disabilities. This manual included tips, definitions and activities on Physical Activity & Healthy Nutrition, IT, Self Confidence and Personal Care. Then multipliers, who implemented the local Trainings to the Mothers / relatives of the People with disabilities, were selected by the Partner organizations among the professional or volunteer staff to participate in LTT activities. In Total 4 LTT activities have been held during the project lifetime. C1 and C2 were thematic Training Courses. C1 was about Physical Activity & Healthy Nutrition and IT literacy and held in Romania; C2 was about Self Esteem and Personal Care which was held in Slovenia. C3 was in Greece and C4 in Turkey with the same concept, which is Adult Education. After the thematic Trainings Courses (C1 and C2), each of the participants have received a second training either in C3 or C4 about methodological aspect of Adult Education. After participating in 2 LTT activities, one Thematic and one on Adult education, the multipliers have implemented Trainings in their Locals. According to the activities carried out in the project, 3 different target groups have been involved in the project. - 32 Caregivers participated in 4 LTTA activities in Romania, Slovenia, Greece and Turkey, - Around 100 mothers/relatives of people with disabilities have participated in local training that have been held in 4 partnering countries. - Around 250 people, relatives of people with disabilities, representatives of different NGO’s, Public institutions etc, have participated in Multiplier events held in every partnering countries. Three intellectual outputs were studied in the project. The first intellectual output was the reports of researches that have been held in 4 countries. Surveys have been applied to the mothers with special kids about Physical Activity & Healthy Nutrition, IT literacy, Self Confidence and Personal Care and the results were reported at National Level. Romanian partner has prepared templates for research topics. These National Reports were then combined into a single Report which has been shared in social media and partner organizations’ webpages , as well as uploaded on Erasmus+ Project Results Platform. In the second intellectual output; A training manual for trainers and multipliers has been prepared about how to train Mothers / relatives. Greek partner was the leader of the output. This manual involved specific tools, workshops, and good practices. This manual has been also shared in social media and partner organizations’ webpages , as well as uploaded on Erasmus+ Project Results Platform. The third intellectual output was the project booklet. The first phase of the book is a summary and information. The second phase involved life experiences, some of the participants’ real stories. The third phase involved the project’s story. We put all the information and photos of the project. This booklet also have been shared in social media and partner organizations’ webpages , as well as uploaded on Erasmus+ Project Results Platform.

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