Transcript R.T. PRIME MINISTRY GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF SOCIAL SERVICES AND CHILD PROTECTION AGENCY Sefer KOÇ Deputy Director General May - 2009

R.T.
PRIME MINISTRY
GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF
SOCIAL SERVICES AND CHILD PROTECTION AGENCY
Sefer KOÇ
Deputy Director General
May - 2009
Protective-Preventive Social Services for Families
Today societies are in a process of rapid change. This change brings along the
following:
• Rural to urban migration and emergence of new settlements without basic
infrastructure
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High population growth and lack of education-training
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Failure in adapting to new environments/communities
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Inter-generational clashes
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Weakening family and neighbourhood ties
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Dissolution of social values
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Conflict with law and addictions of various kind
These problems affect all sections of society and their particular impact on
family unity.
Hence the protection and strengthening of family institution is considered as
one of the fundamental responsibilities of the state and guaranteed under the
Constitution.
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 As a result of newly emerging social conditions triggered by rapid
process of change as well as rapid urbanization and development
processes families need various support mechanisms for
preparing and adapting to these processes in social, economic and
cultural terms.
 Community and Family Counselling Centres under the SHÇEK
have been phased in to respond to these needs.
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COMMUNITY CENTRES
 “Community Centres” are daytime social service units in charge of
extending preventive-protective, training-developmental, guidance
and rehabilitation services in an easily accessible way in order to
enable individuals, groups, families and communities to cope up with
problems brought along with rapid social change, urbanization and
migration.
 80 Community Centres under the SHÇEK have extended services to
98,190 persons as of the end of 2008.
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Services Extended by Community Centres
-Building information and awareness in local communities,
-Making individuals more productive,
-Improving the status of woman within the family and community,
-Informing women in such fields as health, nutrition, child development
and training, family planning and home economics,
-Informing women, youth and children about citizenship rights, human
and child rights and how to exercise these rights
-Extending guidance services in various areas,
-Developing multi-dimensional areas of interest in socio-cultural terms.
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FAMILY COUNSELLING CENTRES
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are centres extending protective-preventive, trainingdevelopmental and rehabilitative as well as guidance and counselling
services to support families in solving their economic, social, cultural
and psychological problems.
 There are 41 family counselling centres operating under the General
Directorate of SHÇEK.
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Services Extended by Family Counselling Centres
 Ensuring the welfare, unity and happiness of families by improving
and strengthening family life,
 Contributing to smooth family relations and strengthening bonds that
keep family members together,
 Healthy development of the personalities of family members,
enhancing the capacity to grow up as independent individuals and
ensuring their adaptation to social life,
 Striking a balance between freedom, responsibility and social values
in family system by improving information and skills regarding child
raising.
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CHILD SERVICES
Support to the Child while with Family
• The worldwide adopted approach in child protection services especially
in recent years is the one that focuses on maintaining family unity.
In countries developed economically, socially and culturally, children in
need of protection are given care as placed with families and institutional care
is preferred only as a last result when family care seems impossible.
• In Turkey, on the other hand, services to children in need of protection
are more oriented to institutional care, which is known to be insufficient in
ensuring sound physical, emotional and mental development of children and
their socialization.
Thus, there is more weight given to family care in Turkey especially in
recent years.
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Priorities in Childcare Services
 Childcare with families
 Since April 2005, 5,850 children for whom institutional placement
decisions had been given have been returned to their families or relatives
through strengthened social assistance and services.
 In 2008, 18,081 children who need the services of the agency were
supported while with their families without any decision for special
protection.
 Foster family services
 Foster family services provide care to children who need protection
through their placement with qualified persons or families for short or
longer periods either on voluntary or payment basis.
 At present 1,103 children are placed with foster families. There is
payment for dresses, courses and some other services.
 Adoption services
 This is the establishment of parent-child relationship through legal ties
whereby children are adopted by qualified persons/families.
 So far 9,895 children have been adopted.
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Home Care Services for the Disabled
 Each family having a disabled member in need of care and officially
qualified as in economic deprivation is entitled to a monthly support
at minimum wage level (477 TL) for the care of the disabled family
member.
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TRAINING PROGRAMMES FOR FAMILY MEMBERS
IMPLEMENTED IN FAMILY COUNSELLING AND
COMMUNITY CENTRES
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 Training Programme on Women’s Human Rights (KİHEP)
 Mother and Child Training Programme (AÇEP)
 My Family and Effective Parenting (ages 0-6 and 7-19) Training
Programmes
 Age 0-6 Family Training Programme
 Age 7-19 Family Training Programme
 Father Support Training Programme (BADEP)
 Programmes for children and adolescents
 Training Programme in Citizenship and Child Rights
 Programme for Supporting Early Childhood Development
 Programmes for Supporting School Performance and Achievement
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Programme for Supporting Early Childhood Development
(Equal Opportunities in Preschool Education)
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They are Learning about their Rights and Taking Part in
Celebrations Related to Child Rights
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Impact of Family Training Programmes
on Mothers
It is observed that participating mothers
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Have more confidence in themselves
Learn and find out more about their children
Communicate better with their children
Have their husbands ask more for their opinion
Have improved spousal relations
Start to read easier and faster
Have improved social relations and act more independently
Have improved and more peaceful family life.
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Kadının İnsan Hakları Eğitim Programı
Kadınların Kendisine Güven Duymasını,
Bu Güveni Farkeden Eşlerinin de
Kadınlara Saygı Duymasını Sağlamaktadır
Human Rights Builds Self-confidence in Women and Motivates Respect to Women
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Impact of Family Training
on Family Life
 It contributes to the development of democratic culture,
 It plays a role in avoiding domestic violence,
 It helps eliminate circumstances which may make family dissolution
inevitable,
 It facilitates switch from institutional to family care by ensuring
peaceful environment within the family and giving economic support
to families in need,
 It contributes to the development of problem solving skills of parents,
 Ot facilitates families’ access to other social services needed by
families without compromising family unity.
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While their Mothers are Informed
Children too Take Part in Training
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Conclusion
 Since the cost of institutional care is higher than the cost of
protective-preventive services geared to maintaining family unity,
preventing domestic violence and ensuring the upbringing of children
with their families and since expected outcomes could not be
obtained through the former, it is the policy of the Agency to give
priority and weight to the latter.
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In case community centres work more effectively, there are
decreases in the number of
 Children to be taken under protection,
 Women in need of female guest house,
 Children living and/or working in streets.
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In this context, in the delivery of services geared to strengthening
and protecting family unity, there is cooperation with other
governmental institutions and agencies, local governments,
universities and non-governmental organizations.
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Cooperation and collaboration are both assigned importance in all
efforts and initiatives.
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THANK YOU
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