Examples of good practices of the Swiss social system for children and young people at risk

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Youth

Examples of good practices of the Swiss social system for children and young people at risk

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Auteur
Fredi Küffer, Charlotte Christener, Nils Jenkel, André Wyssenbach, Rudi Beiner, Sissy Raebel, Martina Suter, Reto Züblin
Éditeur
Association for work with young people - Breza/Birch
Année de publication
2021
Résumé

In Switzerland, awareness has been developing for decades in working with children and young people with social, psychological and/or family difficulties, from work education and coercive measures to differentiated services in the fields of social pedagogy, social work, education, therapy and psychiatry. This booklet is an educational material that aims to clearly and concisely convey insights into the good practices of the Swiss social system. At the beginning, it is important to emphasize that Switzerland carried out the deinstitutionalization and decentralization of its social system in the early seventies of the last century, which is continuously empirically confirmed as a good solution, while the same processes are only current in Croatia today. The constant adaptation of the Swiss social models and the dynamic growth, modification and extension of their own approaches are aimed at the real and current needs of children and young people, which is a discourse to strive for. Association Breza, the author of this publication and the holder of the TOGETHER project, has been a partner in the provision of social services for children and youth at risk in Switzerland since 2002 and, together with Swiss organizations, participates in the development of the provision of quality services that meet the needs of young people. During the long-term cooperation, a partnership relationship developed through the exchange of experiences and practices, which ultimately resulted in the implementation of the TOGETHER project. Through professional visits to Swiss partners and cantonal institutions responsible for the provision of social services, lectures by Swiss experts, exchange of experiences and insight into the good practices of the Swiss social system, the most important knowledge was collected and presented in this publication. In addition to a general overview of the Swiss social system, access to the education of social workers and social pedagogues, financing of social services and the EQUALS program, which is used to evaluate the success of work in the care of children and young people, some of the organizations providing social services are also presented. The listed organizations represent different approaches to social care and provide different social services, they are examples of good practices of the Swiss social system.

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