MEETING IN ROMANIA (BUCHAREST)
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The participants from
Italy and Portugal  |
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The participants from
Italy 
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The participants from
France and Spain  |
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The participants from
France and England  |
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The participants from
Portugal  |
Sunday 27.01.2002
Presentation and detailed description of the partners
Monday 28.01.2002
Exchange information about legislation concerning both disabled persons and continuous education of adults
Exchange information about types of education programs, materials used, work methods
Tuesday 29.01.2002
Meeting with Romanian officials, professionals and parents of handicaped people
· Mircea Vlad, Director in Ministry of Education and research
·· NicolaeSacalis, Director of the Dalles Popular University
· George Anca, Director of the national Pedagogic Library
· Ana-Maria Avram, Minister’s counsellor in the State Secretariate of the Handicaped People
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Representatives from the
· From practices of two handicaped coworkers of the H-Foundation
· Exchange need assesements methodologies
Wednesday 30.01.2002
Develop a common frame for target group (questionnaires, interview, focus group etc.). For the frame of this common tool, see Appendix 1.
Thursday 31.01.2002
Final details of the implementation plan for this year
Discussions about the renewal application for the next year
Visit at the Saint Ana Association (a parents’association) – Day Centre for children with mental handicap
Friday 1.02.2002
Evaluation of meeting
Visiting disabled children who attended the H Foundation’s program “School at home”
Identification of the needs of parents with disabled children
Tools to gather information
How can we gather the information concerning needs of parents:
I. Structured questionnaire (for parents, other bodies)
Here there are the conclusions about the principal needs of the parents, in the opinion of the most of participants:
1. Information (about the child's disability)
- medical : recover systems/programs, prognostic, what the child can and can't do - somatic and mental)
- psychological problems (agressivity, behavioral disorders)
- legislation (rights)
2. Training
- Facing the stress (firstly to recognize the problems, to accept them and to deal)
- How to behave and how to not behave with the child (link with the school)
-- education
-- how to deal with the agressiveness of the children
- How to handle with child behavior
- Free time and leisure
- Encounter with other families with similary problems
- How to use equipments
3. Mediation : counsellor, teacher, social workers, medical staff
4. Therapy
A. Individual (cognitive-behavioral, family therapy, ludic therapy, art-therapy)
B. Group Therapy
5. Support:
- psychological + counselling
- financial (information about governmental and non-governmental support)
- respite care (information about carrers)
6. Facilities / equipment for children (the parents have to ask to/adressed to: social services providers, health local system, schools, parents'associations)
II. Interview with open questions (parents, other bodies)
III. Group discussion (parents)
IV. Statistic enquiry : to know what services/help are required and which are mostly used (agencies, observatories)
V. Literature search
OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE PROJECT “LEARN TO HOPE TOGETHER”
THE ISTRATE MICESCU’S HALL OF THE NATIONAL PEDAGOGIC LIBRARY, 27.01.2002 – 1.02.2002
Participant institutions:
Fundatia H pentru Invatamant la Distanta Destinat Persoanelor cu Handicap –
Associacao Portuguesa de Pais e Amigos do Cisadao Deficiente Mental – Portugal (3 persons)
Asociacion Artistica Utrillo – Spain (2 persons)
Cooperativa Sociale Marchigiana di Servizi Sociali e Sanitari C.O.O.S.S. – Italy (3 persons)
TRAINING 2000 s.n.c.
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ENTENTE
GEIST DUNKERQUE –
Decisions for future activity
1. One
of the Italian partners, C.O.O.S.S., have proposed the next meeting in
March to be held in Ancona (Italy) instead in
Marinha Grande (Portugal), the number of days and participants
being those aproved in the project by National
Agencies. Consequently, the third meeting will be in June in Marinha Grande (
All the partners will ask for the approval from their National Agencies.
2. The details of the implementation plan for the next period were defined more accurately:
1.02.2002 - 17.03.2002 – each partner develops a tool for the analysis of the parent’s needs (based on the common frame established during this meeting)
18.03.2002 – 24.03.2002
– the second visit in
- presentation of the tool proposed by each partner for the analysis of the parents’need
- comparison of several tools and elaboration of a common tool
- definition of the modalities for the submission of the tool in each country
- meetings between visiting staff and host organization members
- meeting with professionals who work with parents of children with disabilities, with parents and beneficiaries
- attending the conference
24.03.2002 – middle of June 2002
- implementing the tool of assesement of parents’ needs in each country
- the development of a national report presenting the results
6
days in the middle of June – the third visit in Marinha
Grande (
- discussion of national reports presenting the needs of parents having in view the development of a comparative study
- meetings between visiting staff and host organization members
- meeting with professionals who work with parents of children with disabilities, with parents and beneficiaries
- demonstrations of an possible educational approach for the situations encountered
Middle of June - 31.07.2002
- development of a draft of the comparative study concerning the parents’needs (coordinator’s responsibility)
- development of the anual report (each partner)
General evaluation of the meeting
Each partner organization has received an meeting evaluation form to fill in. The main items has reffered to : how useful was this meeting, how new were the subjects discussed, how useful it will be this meeting for the development of the project, the meeting atmosphere, facilities etc. The general estimation of the meeting was between satisfactory and good.
Project coordinator,
Prof. Stefan Fatulescu