Nowadays, the single-parent family structure is increasing. These families often face many problems. The problems they face sometimes weaken their parenting skills. It is important to be aware of these families and to develop social policies to solve their problems. Both Turkey also needs to develop the materials needed in Europe to solve the problems of this family. In addition, the professional knowledge of the professionals serving these families should be improved. With this respect, a customized training program for improving single parents ' parenting skills are very important in terms of both the quality of life of these families and the developmental processes of their children. Although there are a lot of studies on single-parent families, there isn’t any training program for single-parent families to improve their capacity of parenting in Turkey and in European Countries. Starting from this point the basic aim of this project is to develop such a modular training program for developing their parenting skills based on the basic needs of these families. Aims 1) Uncovering the needs of single parents 2) Development of professional knowledge and skills on single-parent families 3) Increasing scientific studies for single-parent families 4) Developing materials for strengthening single-parent families 5) Reduction of social exclusion and strengthening of single-parent families 6) Resolving the adaptation and behavior problems of children with the strengthening of single-parent families 7) Raising awareness of the needs of single-parent families Partnership 1) Kırıkkale Family, Labor, and Health Directory. 2)Kırıkkale University (Continioning Education Center) 3) Yenimahalle Guidence and reserch Center. 4) Kirikkale Association for the Development of Lifelong Education and Vocational Training 5) Helix-Helezon, Austria 6) CENTRO PER LO SVILUPPO CREATIVO DANILO DOLCI, Italy 7) SZUBJEKTIV ERTEKEKEK ALAPITVANY, Hungary 8) Fundacja Family Center, Poland. All of the partners have experience working with single-parent families. All of the partners have experience working in the Erasmus project. Six partners have previously been involved in the Erasmus + strategic partnership project. Some of them have experience in developing training programs. The project will last for 24 months. For a project to be managed appropriately, a Process Management Team will be established at the beginning of the project. Under the leadership of the coordinating organization, this team will manage and evaluate the whole process of the project. At the same time, a project implementation plan Gantt Shema will be established at the beginning of the project and all activities will be carried out in line with this schema. All project process and meetings will be reported regularly by coordinator organization. And coordinator organization will arrange all communication tools such as whats' up and email groups. There will one representative of each partner in PMT. The team will hold online meetings on a monthly basis. In addition, the partners will worship themselves twice a month. International meetings, including all project participants, will be held quarterly. There will be 8 international meeting four which will be in Turkey including opening and closing meetings and the others will be in partner countries Italy, Austria, Hungry, Poland. Internation meetings will last in 3 days. Each project partner will participate in the project with 4 people. These people will be composed of experienced psychologists, social workers, teachers, and academicians. All project participants will be '32' people totally. All participant will attend international meetings and contribute all intellectual outputs of the project. intellectual outputs 1)Need Analysis for Single Parent Families 2)CUstimized Training Program for Developing Parenting Skills of Single Parents 3)Guide Book for Trainers of Training Program for Developing Parenting Skills of Single- Parents Families 4)Manuel For Single Parent Families 5)Outdoor Virtual Platform Multiplier Events Implementation of the customized training program to the families (E1.E2, E3, E4 E5). 120 Single-parent families in Turkey, 30 in Italy, Hungary 30 in Austria and 30 in Hungary and 30 Poland. Conference Related to Single Parent Families (E6).Contribute to the development of social sensitivity, and to emphasize the importance of training activates for empowering these parents. In short, at the end of the project, there will be resources for single-parent families to be applied by professionals apply. The program can be used by such organizations as public education centers, social service centers, NGOs. Keeping the website open for a long time and continuing to provide services to families and professionals will be effective in spreading and maintaining the project.
The main purpose of this project is to develop a modular training program for single-parent families to develop their parenting skills based on the identified needs. The sub-objectives based on this general purpose are; 1) Revealing the educational needs of single-parent families 2) Developing professional knowledge and skills of professionals working in single-parent families, 3) Raising awareness about the needs of single-parent families 4) Increasing scientific studies for single-parent families 5) Developing and implementing a training program that improve the parenting skills of single-parent families 6) Developing materials such as handbooks and web pages to strengthen single-parent families 7) Reducing social exclusion and strengthening single-parent families 8) Solving adaptation and behavior problems of children by strengthening single-parent families
Today, the single-parent family structure is increasing in Europe and the whole world, as in our country. These families often face many problems. Intervention programs designed to strengthen families are generally programs based on the nuclear family structure. There are some difficulties specific to the single-parent family structure, which occur with situations such as divorce, parental death or direct single parenting. The problems they face sometimes weaken their parenting skills. General programs designed to strengthen families do not include interventions and skills for the difficulties faced by these families. In this context, it is important for governments to be aware of the problems of these families and to develop appropriate social policies. In practices related to these policies, the development and implementation of family education programs for the development and strengthening of parenting skills of families emerges as an important need. Strengthening single-parent families is very important in terms of raising children as healthy individuals. This project was designed based on this need and a customized family education program was developed for single-parent families.