Step towards alternative child care: analysis of child care deinstitutionalization components (based on the research in Vidzeme region, Latvia)
2017
Legzdina, K., Vidzeme Univ. of Applied Sciences, Valmiera (Latvia). Inst. of Social, Economic and Humanities Research | Rajevska, F., Vidzeme Univ. of Applied Sciences, Valmiera (Latvia). Inst. of Social, Economic and Humanities Research | .
A child is the smallest and the most vulnerable part of the society to whom only a family has the ability to provide the most sincere attitude and a personalized approach. However, many children for various reasons still have been left without parental care and are under the guardian of state institutions. An alternative to institutional care is childcare deinstitutionalization (DI). Its objective is to provide a child care as similar as possible to that of a family. It means decreasing the number of children in institutions and increasing number of children in alternative care forms, developing basic services to ensure the necessary processes of child's daily development, child supervision and protection, and supporting parents. The aim of this article is to examine what basic components of child DI are used in Vidzeme region child care institutions fully, partially or are not in use, using the simulation model in the simulation program STELLA created by Kristine Legzdina in her Master Thesis. To obtain the necessary data, were used methods, such as interviews with the heads of Vidzeme residential care, questionnaires were distributed to the employees of residential care and Vidzeme planning region municipalities having at least one residential care facility situated on their territory. After the simulation model verification, it was validated through an expert validation method.
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