The Conference of the Family Group (KGR) as a Method of the Working with the Families in Danger of Social Exclusion (results of the work District Centre of the Family Help in Bytów)
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Akademia Pomorska w Słupsku, Bohaterów Westerplatte 64, 76-200 Słupsk, Polska
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Powiatowe Centrum Pomocy Rodzinie, Miła 26 , 77-100 Bytów, Polska
Submission date: 2011-10-01
Final revision date: 2011-12-31
Acceptance date: 2011-12-31
Publication date: 2011-12-31
Corresponding author
Wiesław Lesner
Akademia Pomorska w Słupsku, Bohaterów Westerplatte 64, 76-200 Słupsk, Polska
Wychowanie w Rodzinie 2011;4(4):183-195
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ABSTRACT
Conference of the family group (KGR) is a method of the work with
the family leading families in functioning to positive changes, giving the possibility of
constructive and effective solving her problems. The specificity of this method causes
employing the wide circle of members of a family, as well as other persons important
for the child: of acquaintances, of neighbors, of friends; on the established forum
discussion is being entered into with the possibility of using the participation of
professionals, granting technical consultation; plans concerning solving difficult
situations of the child and the family are being formulated. The KGR method is applied
in final years in, bringing unprecedented beneficial results. Thanks to conducting
fifteen conferences of the family group in the district of Bytów over twenty children
missed to institutions social and behavioral, and it stayed in related and unrelated foster
families and around their families. Moreover the families received the psychological
support, possibility to use the services of the assistant of the family and the assistant of
the person with disabilities. Drawing fifteen social contracts up was a final result of held
conferences. All members of a family are becoming involved in the problem solving,
behind taken decisions lives concerning them have a sense of responsibility, they are
establishing positive reports with employees of the system of the welfare. Apart from
that a number of children is reducing at institutions social and behavioral, a time of
staying foster children in substitute forms of the care is undergoing shortening, also
a number of institutional intervention is reducing in families.
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