Orphans who are fully supported by the state, leaving the orphanage, turn out to be little adapted to life in society. Independence turns out to be too difficult for them, which is why, unfortunately, the percentage of orphans who have managed to successfully adapt to society is so low.
Instructions
Step 1
In order for the transition from life in a boarding school to independent living for orphans to become the most smooth and painless, a well-thought-out program of post-boarding adaptation and social rehabilitation of graduates of boarding schools is needed, which includes the formation of elementary everyday skills, labor and social adaptation of adolescents. orphans.
Step 2
Unfortunately, the cases when a graduate of an orphanage cannot even make tea for himself is not an exaggeration, but a sad reality. Life in an orphanage is quite comfortable in everyday terms: pupils are provided with ready-made food, and have no idea how this food gets to them on the table. They use clothes and household items, but do not have the skills of minor repairing clothes, washing, cleaning the premises - after all, the staff of the orphanage does all this for them and for them.
Step 3
The program for the upbringing and education of children in an orphanage must necessarily include systematic classes in the formation of elementary everyday skills. Children raised in a boarding school should, like children growing up in a family, have an idea of how to cook elementary meals, put things in order in the room in which they live, make minor repairs to clothes, etc. The more systematic this experience is, the more strongly children will learn the self-care skills they need in life.
Step 4
Orphans brought up in orphanages have a special "relationship" with money. Not seeing a direct relationship between the work of adults and the material reward they receive for it, and the living conditions in which the family as a result exists, orphans do not understand the true value of money, do not have the ability to distribute funds for various needs, and also have weak idea of work. The task of people working with teenage orphans is not only to acquaint their pupils with the ways of making money, but also with the principles of their rational distribution.
Step 5
Social adaptation is also important for the further successful life of graduates of orphanages. A child brought up in a boarding school differs from a child living in a family in his psycho-emotional development: he does not see how the elders perform their social roles (spouse, parent), he has poorly formed the skill of emotional attachment and adequate emotional response to various life situations. This is especially true for children from infancy in an institution. The formation and correction of the psycho-emotional sphere in adolescent orphans requires special attention and special purposeful work.
Step 6
In addition, the graduates of the orphanage have a very vague idea of how the life of society outside the children's institution is "arranged". It is difficult for them to navigate which organizations to apply to in order to solve basic everyday issues: receive benefits and subsidies, get a job, send a child to kindergarten, etc. The problem is aggravated by the fact that the circle of contacts of graduates of boarding schools is limited: as a rule, they continue to communicate with their comrades in the orphanage, who are just as inexperienced in these matters.
Step 7
The task of people involved in the social adaptation of adolescent orphans is to provide them with the necessary social and pedagogical support at least in the first time after they leave the orphanage. In society, it is considered normal when parents help a young person to get a job, equip housing, solve other social problems, simply provide psychological support in difficult life situations. Orphaned adolescents are deprived of such support: they do not have close significant adults to whom they can turn for help and advice.
Step 8
This means that such a function should be taken over by workers of social services. Rehabilitation centers are needed for graduates of orphanages. The workers of such centers will at least partially provide the adolescent with support and assistance during the period of his adaptation to life in society after leaving the orphanage.
