Finlândia

2729

Data de início: 01-05-2013

Data de fim: 01-01-2014

Vagas: 1

Duração: 8 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 30-01-2013

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 120 €

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Resumo: This is a diversified center of know-how for special groups. Our clients consist, among others, of autistic people, intellectually disabled with psychical disorders and people with several sensory handicaps. For each client, a personal rehabilitation plan is elaborated. This plan consists, when necessary, of teaching, workshops and different therapies. There is also a special school in the center with about 50 places for students.

The present the hosting organization has in total about 220 places for short and long-term rehabilitation.
In the centre the volunteers would work in the occupational rehabilitation work field where there are 10 different workshops. In the occupational rehabilitation work field there are about 30 workers organizing the diverse activities in the workshops.

Workshops are work- and daily activity places for adults needing special support. There is a wide range of activities and possibilities in this work field varying for example from arts&crafts to different kinds of social activities. Workshops aim to support each client’s independent life skills and their own strengths.

Our clients need special and individualized support so we wish that the volunteers would be able to join our work quite independently.

The town is not very big in Keski-Savo region with a population about 21000 people. The town was built at the junction of the main railway network. So this town has communications with all parts of Finland. It is a 3 hours journey from the town to Helsinki by train and 1 hour journey to Mikkeli, Kuopio and Jyväskylä by car.

For sports-minded people in the town offers brilliant possibilities to go in for summer and winter sports. The town has indoor skating rink, skiing tracks, indoor swimming pool and sports halls.

The town has a pure nature. Due to it is an ideal place to live for nature loving person.

The center is situated on the countryside, of a 10 km distance from the town centre. The town is surrounded by beautiful nature and there is a little lake right next to it. There are many buses running daily, during daytime there is about one bus per hour and in the evenings less. The closest shops are found in the town centre. Volunteers will get a monthly bus card that covers travelling to town center.

The Center is an ideal place for young volunteer, who enjoys nature and peaceful environment.

The volunteers will live in the area of the center. The two volunteers will share a room in a peaceful boarding house. There is also a kitchen, living room and bath room facilities for them. Lunch is served from Monday to Friday in our own eatery. Other meals the volunteers are able to prepare themselves in the dormitory.

In the centre, the volunteers have great possibilities to learn about working with people with special needs in a professional and inspiring environment. The volunteers will learn about different working methods and also improve their communication and language skills (English, Finnish). The role of the volunteer is to support the permanent staff in organising the daily activities of center’s workshops.

Perfil: The coordinating organisation will advertise the open EVS placement to it’s partners and interested volunteer candidate and sending organisation all over Europe. There are no special skill requirements, so the placement is open to any young person aged 18 to 30. The coordinating organisation will especially search and encourage volunteers and sending organisations working with yout from disadvantaged background (economic/social/geografical/cultural) and those who don’t have previous international experience.

The centre would like the EVS volunteer to be interested in working with different kinds of people and to be prepared for social tasks with people with different kinds of disablities.

So good social skills and an open attitude are very important. The other volunteer, who works at a the Art Laundry, could preferably be interested in artistic creation. Experience with people with special needs is preferable, but most important is the motivation to work with them and an open, positive attitude.

Tarefas: - Join in organizing everyday tasks in the daily activities workshops.
- Share ideas of projects and materials.
- Assist in creating a functional place and atmosphere for diversified creative work.
- Learn to understand the needs of the clients as individuals
- Join in tailoring a program most beneficial to client
- Take part in planing and organizing other activities in the Centre
- Assist workers in instructing our clients and individually assist the clients in their practical tasks (for examble different kinds of arts&crafts).
- Create different kinds of activities together with workshops and living communities.
- Assist clients with physical handicaps (in wheelchairs etc).

One volunteer would join in working in three different daily activity workshops for people needing special support. In the workshops the clients with special needs have varied possibilities to strengthen their social skills and skills, which are important for their daily survival. The clients also do different kinds of arts&crafts activities and small-scale productive work. The clients are encouraged to have own initiative and to learn independent work skills. Every client has their personal rehabilitation plan, which has been made according to their needs.

The other volunteer would work in two places:
Taidepesula (Art Laundry)
The Art Laundry workshop is located in the former laundry room of the Centre. It functions as a place of endless artistic possibilities for people needing special support. In Art Laundry, it is possible to search for and discover one’s artistic style and actualize it. Each client receives personalized guidance for their artistic work, with an average of 25 clients, children and adults, per week. There are three workers in Taidepesula who support each client individually in their artistic journey.

Working in an artistic setting supports the client’s growth in personality, self-empowerment and the ability to express one’s self. The Art Laundry workshop also wants to encourage one’s artistic identity to come into being and to be developed further.
In addition to arranging artistic activity, Art Laundry prepares exhibitions and functions as a part of the Finnish and international art networks.

Päivätupa
Päivätupa is a multisensory workshop for clients with mental handicaps and several sensory handicaps. The idea of Päivätupa is to offer experiences and adventures in a multisensory environment to create a place of communication. Päivätupa uses different alternative communication methods to support and enable the communication of each client. There are two workers in Päivätupa who individually assist and give personalized guidance for the clients.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês