SOCIAL WORK IN NARVA CITY Maria Zhuravlyova Narva

SOCIAL WORK IN NARVA CITY Maria Zhuravlyova Narva College of the University of Tartu Head of Youth Work Curriculum 1 9/11/2021

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NARVA CITY 3 Narva is the third largest city in Estonia. It is located at the most eastern point of Estonia, by the Russian border, on the Narva River which takes off from Lake Peipus. More information about Narva city: www. narva. ee 9/11/2021

DEMOGRAPHICS 4 Period Population 1999 73831 2000 73295 2001 70725 2002 70178 2003 69816 2004 69730 2005 69410 2006 68988 2007 67497 2008 66621 2009 65886 75 000 73 831 Population 70 000 65 886 65 000 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 9/11/2021

Population´s gender and age structure 6 000 5 000 4 000 3 000 2 000 Total Male 85 + 80 – 84 75 – 79 70 – 74 65 – 69 60 – 64 55 – 59 50 – 54 45 – 49 40 – 44 35 – 39 30 – 34 25 – 29 20 – 24 15 – 19 10 – 14 0 5– 9 1 000 0 – 4 5 POPULATION´S GENDER AND AGE STRUCTURE Female 9/11/2021

6 On 1 January 2009 Narva had 65, 886 inhabitants. The population, which was 83, 000 in 1992, has been declining since then. 93. 85% of the current population of Narva are Russian-speakers (80% are ethnic Russians), mostly either Soviet-era immigrants from parts of the former Soviet Union (mainly Russia) or their descendants. Estonians account for only 4% of the total population. Much of the city was destroyed during World War II and for several years during the following reconstruction the Soviet authorities prohibited the return of any of Narva's pre-war residents (among whom ethnic Estonians had been the majority, forming 64. 8% of the town's population of 23, 512 according to the 1934 census), thus radically altering the city's ethnic composition. Only 46% of the city's inhabitants are Estonian citizens. Another 35% are citizens of the Russian Federation, while 18% of the population has undefined citizenship. 9/11/2021

7 ETHNIC COMPOSITION OF THE POPULATION 9/11/2021

SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN NARVA 8 8000 1998 2462 1999 3421 2000 4226 2001 3533 2002 4025 2003 3940 2004 4047 2005 2880 1000 2006 1645 0 2007 1311 2008 2854 2009 7119 2010 7525 Registered unemployed 7000 6000 5000 4000 3000 20 10 20 09 20 08 20 07 20 06 20 05 20 04 20 03 20 02 19 98 2000 20 01 Registered unemployed 20 00 Year Unemployed 19 99 9/11/2021

SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN NARVA 9 Drugs, alcohol and glue sniffing - Constant increase of use of addictive substances (tobacco, alcohol, drugs and glue) among children and youth. - Constant downtrend of the age of first-time drug users. - Large amount of people using IV drugs. - Increase in the number of law violations caused by/connected with drug addiction. - Fast spread of HIV (first of all among IV drugs addicts). 9/11/2021

SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN NARVA 10 A significant concern in Narva is the spread of HIV, which started expanding in 2000. Between 2001 and 2008, more than 1600 cases of HIV were registered in Narva, making it one of the three areas worst hit in Estonia, after Tallinn and ahead of the rest of Ida-Viru County. On average 150– 200 new cases have been registered yearly. 9/11/2021

1129 -577 1995 605 957 -352 1996 594 878 -284 1997 568 940 -372 1998 549 1033 -484 1999 588 991 -403 2000 648 973 -325 2001 658 1025 -403 2002 693 1058 -365 2003 612 1003 -391 2004 677 902 -225 2005 706 930 -224 2006 628 893 -265 2007 557 993 -436 2008 644 949 -305 800 600 400 200 0 -200 2008 552 2007 1994 1000 2006 -467 2005 1061 2004 594 2003 1993 1200 2002 -189 2001 939 2000 747 1999 1992 1998 Natural increase 1997 Deaths 1996 Births 1995 Year 1994 Deaths/Births 1993 1992 11 SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN NARVA -400 -600 Births Deaths Natural increase 9/11/2021

12 Official Municipality NGO and SOCIETY SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS IN NARVA • Probation Supervision • Pension department • Police • Help to victims • Unemployment Insurance Fund • Juvenile crimes committee • Social Services Department • Day Centre “LAD” • Shelter for children + Shelter for children Crisis Center • Children´s home • Center of Rehabilitation • Doss-Hous • Estonia Red Cross • Social Adaptation Centre • New bridge • Home for a Child • Big family • Mercy Center • Open Youth Center RLK Narva Society of Family with special needs Camomile Home Center The Salvation Army Addict Rehabilitation Centre Society of veterans Society of the blind Society of Disabled Society for people with physical disabilities Society of pensioners 9/11/2021

FOR UNEMPLOYED 13 OFFICIAL: Unemployment Insurance Fund - http: //www. tootukassa. ee/ Aim: to provide labour market-related services and to effect payments of unemployment benefit. NGO: Estonia Red Cross Social Adaptation Centre New bridge Mercy Center The Salvation Army NGO-s aim: providing people with no employment, income or place of living with necessary information and psychological counselling, providing them with second hand clothes, footwear and household items, organization of their employment. 9/11/2021

FOR CHILD AND FAMILY PROTECTION 14 Problems associated with social welfare solved by the Department of Social Assistance. Under its authority are: Centre of Rehabilitation Orphanage Crisis Home Centre of First Medical Aid and Social Rehabilitation Night shelter for the homeless Day care Centre "LAD" for disabled children Telephone reassurance service The Department actively co-operates with 12 social organisations involved in provision of assistance to children and adults, including the Drug Addict Rehabilitation Centre. Contact: Phone: +372 35 91880, Fax: +372 35 91880; e-mail: narvasaa@hot. ee 9/11/2021

FOR CHILD AND FAMILY PROTECTION 15 NGO-s: Home for a Child Open Youth Center RLK Mercy Center Camomile Home Center Big family Narva Society of Family with special needs SOS “Children village” Aim: organization of children’s free time, parent counselling, psychological help, support person service. 9/11/2021

SERVICES AND BENEFITS 16 GRANTS: - Parish-relief - Benefit for carers or legal guardians of a 18 -year old and older disabled person - Carer’s benefit for parents or carers of disabled children - Additional benefit for families with disabled children from funds of Children Protection Service 9/11/2021

SERVICES AND BENEFITS 17 - Fitting the living conditions according to the special needs of a disabled person. - City’s benefit for pensioners. - One-time child’s birth benefit from the city funds. - One-time emergency benefit. 9/11/2021

SERVICES AND BENEFITS 18 SERVICES - Support person service - Soup kitchen service - Social counselling - Services for homeless people - Activating of unemployed - Rehabilitation - Personal assistant service - Special transportation service for disabled people - Housework services 9/11/2021

19 SOS CHILDREN´S VILLAGE ASSOCIATION OF ESTONIA SUPPORT WORKERS SERVICE IN NARVA CITY 9/11/2021

20 1. works on the development of the parental competencies and prevention of the child’ separation from their families, 2. empowers families at risk to change their life so that they would be able to raise their children properly in normal conditions, 3. advocates the children rights and interests when problems occur in their development, 4. supports and assists children in solving development-related problems, 5. supports children in their pursue for education by helping children solve school and study-related problems in a child-centred way, 6. functions as the community activator by creating and strengthening networks in the community thus providing more efficient support to families at risk which are willing to change their lifestyle and thus also preventing occurrences of deprivation of parental rights. 9/11/2021

PRINCIPLES 21 1. Growing-up in the biological family is best for a child. 2. Guardians are responsible for development of their children. 3. Local communities provide children and their families with direct support. 4. Aim of development is realization of a person’s rights. 9/11/2021

STANDARDS 1 22 1. Children at risk of social orphanage are our target group. 2. Children have access to services which are necessary for their normal development. 3. We help families to develop their self-sustainability in the issues of child care and protection. 9/11/2021

23 STANDARDS 2 4. We help local communities to work efficiently with children at risk and their families. 5. We establish cooperation to achieve our common aims. 6. Constant planning, monitoring and evaluation make our programmes upto-date and effective. 9/11/2021

FAMILY STRENGTHENING PROGRAMME : «LET’S GIVE STRENGTH IN NARVA» 24 Our aim: Strengthening family’s possibilities to satisfy needs of child’s development in the family. 9/11/2021

25 ü Protection of children’s rights and interests. ü Providing family with support in the process of improvement of family’s possibilities. ü Work on development of parental competences. ü Support and help in solving problems connected with child’s development. ü Providing children with support in their pursue for education. 9/11/2021

SERVICE DESCRIPTION 26 ü Establishing positive contact with the family. ü Evaluation of the family’s strengths, condition and resources together with the family members in order to create the family development plan. ü Supporting the family in realization of the development plan proceeding from the family’s interests, encouraging the family to act independently and efficiently. ü Regular evaluation of the family’s condition together with the family members where special attention is paid to satisfaction of children’s needs and interests in the family. ü Providing additional services for development of the family. ü Supervision of children’s safety in the family. ü Confidentiality and fulfillment of the social worker’s ethics. 9/11/2021

ADDITIONAL SERVICES 27 ü Social study – parents’ club – development of parent-child relations. ü Specialist in the issues of education – helping children in their studies. ü Early interference programme – speech therapist and parent counselling. ü Support in purchase of medicines. ü Legal advice. 9/11/2021

OUR PLANS 28 - Early interference programme for kindergartens. - Extending of the range of the family support person services. - Broadening of social-psychological study - Engaging volunteers. - Opening the centre of family counselling and support. 9/11/2021

29 CONTACT Manager: Kalle Laane, +37255513715, kalle@sos-lastekyla. ee Coordinator: Maria Zhuravlyova, +3725585533, maria. zuravljova@ut. ee 9/11/2021

30 THANKS AND WELCOME TO NARVA! 9/11/2021