Session 20/21
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Topic introduction
This session offers a step-by-step framework for groups of SOS Parents and their supervisor or project manager on how to prepare for moving out from Villages and become community Parents in the local community.
Four session topics describe how to build psychological safety for Parents and their children before, during and after moving from the Village, to live as foster families in the community:
Topic A: How can SOS Parents actively prepare themselves for moving out as community Parents?
Topic B: How do we inform children and engage them in the change?
Topic C: How do we help children and youth build new secure relations with adults and peers in the community?
Topic D: How to train practical skills for children and youth after settling in the community.
Competences to be exercised
- Open sharing of expectations in the transition from SOS Parent to SOS community Parent.
- Forming a group for joint sharing and planning – before, during and after moving out.
- Skills for making children feel secure in all phases of the transition.
- Skills to ensure children’s rights in the process.
Aim of the session
- This session will help you work together, and prepare the psychological and relational transition from life in the Village, to a new life as a SOS community Parent in your community.