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Welcome to the Swedish Organization for Individual Relief (IM/SOIR): The Swedish Organization for Individual Relief is working in Jordan since 1968, to provide services for persons with intellectual disability in cooperation with Ministry of Social Development. SOIR, started its activities according to the conviction of "Every child can learn and all individuals are equal in rights without discrimination, and they have the right for human dignity”. To achieve this conviction SOIR in 1996 started to integrate children and adults with intellectual disabilities in their local communities in different areas of Amman in Cooperation with the humanitarian organizations, associations & centers in the local communities by starting projects for training, rehabilitation, education and vocational training for persons with intellectual disabilities. Such services shall be offered in the local community within the families. This will lead to changing attitudes towards those individuals and their needs.
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6. The community support team and services
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SOIR established number of classes and centers for children with severe & moderate intellectual disabilities. Their ages are between (4) to (14) years old. Following are the projects :
1. Baq’a Project: In December 1997, in cooperation with the local committee of CBR center in Baq’a Palestinian Refugee Camp and UNRWA, SOIR started two classes for (14) children With severe intellectual disabilities and multi handicap living in Baq’a Camp and the surrounding areas.
2. Wehdat Project: In March 1998 in cooperation with the local committee of CBR center in Wehdat Palestianian Refugee Camp, and UNRWA, SOIR started two classes for (14) children living in Wehdat Camp and have severe and multi handicap.
3. Hay Nazal Project: In September 1999, SOIR in cooperation with Zakat Fund/ Zakat Committee of Hay Nazal SOIR started a center for (21) children living in Hay Nazal and Akhdar areas. The center is located in Al Toba Mosque, and is serve children with severe and multi handicaps and their ages are between 4 to 14 years old.
4. Al- Hussein Project: In March 2000 SOIR, in cooperation with Zakat Fund/ Zakat Committee of Al Hussein Camp , started a center for (21) children living in Al- Hussein Camp, Nuzha And Jabal Al-Hussein areas. The ages of the children are between 4 to 14 years old.
5. Al Manara Project: In 2002 in cooperation with Al Zakat Fund /Zakat Committee of Jabal Al Manara & Um Nouara , SOIR started a center for (21) children living in Naser, Manara and Um Nouara areas. The center is located in the ground floor of a mosque.
6. Classes for Special Education in Public schools : SOIR in cooperation with Ministry of Education established Number of classes for children with severe and moderate intellectual disabilities and multi handicap and who's ages are between 4 to 14 years old, in public schools as follows : a) Two classes for (14) children at Khansa secondary school in Sweileh area. b) One class for (7) children at Sawda Bint Zama'a school in Ashrafieh area. c) One class for (7) children at Iskan Yajouz school in Shafa Badran Area. d) One class for (7) children at Ain Al Basha secondary school in Ain Al Basha area.
The children has their own classes within the school environment, and are integrated with school students in recreational and outside activities, such as sports, domestic science, …etc .
SOIR established a number of unites and day activity centers for grown up youngsters whose ages are more than (16) years old. They practice vocational training, work, recreational activities, ..etc. through the following projects:
1. Al – Wafa Club project In 1998, in cooperation with Al- Wafa Club SOIR established a day activity unit for (10) male youths in Marka area.
2. Al Qosour Project: In 1999, in cooperation with the Training and Rehabilitation Charitable Society for Girls with Disabilities SOIR established a daily activity unit for (20) female youths in Nuzha area. The girls are trained on Daily living activities, needle works, such as embroidery, handicrafts, looming, crochet, sewing,….etc, in addition to domestic science, gardening, and recreational activities.
3. Al Wehdat Project : In 2001 , in cooperation with Al Zakat Fund / Zakat committee of Wehdat Camp, SOIR established a day activity center for (30) male & female youths in Wehdat camp. The adults are trained on carpentry works, looming, handicrafts, Daily living activities, sewing, needle works in addition to domestic science, and recreational activities.
4. Sweileh project: In 2008 and in cooperation with a local partner , SOIR will establish a Day activity center for (20) male and female youths in Sweileh area. Agroup of them are with severely handicap. The center has the activities of Dalily living, carpentry works, sewing, looming, gardenining, domestic science and recreational activities.
5. Zarqa project: In 2008 and in cooperation with a local partner, SOIR will establish a Day activity center for (20) male and female youths in Zarqa area. The idea is to do the same activities done in the up mentioned day activity centers.
6 . Integration On Individual Basis: SOIR is working on finding job opportunities in the labour market for individual adults with mild mental retardation. Also parents were encouraged to give their sons the chance to work in their own work places as shops, carpentries, goods distribution,…etc.
SOIR integrated (4) orphan adults with intellectual disabilities by living within(4) foster families who accepted to have them living within their families in Ruman, Rumaimeen, Irbid and Sweileh areas. Some of these adults benefit from the daily activity in Sweileh.
SOIR give monthly financial and counseling support to about (50) poor families who have persons with intellectual disabilities at home.
SOIR is giving technical support to CBR programs run by UNRWA and the CBR Committees in (7) Palestinian Refugee camps in Jerash, Souf, Marqa, Irbid, Hoson, Wehdat and Waqas in Jordan valley. Two special teachers are supervising the work in the classes of children with mental retardation, and both are responsible for training volunteers how to work with children with intellectual disabilities, in order to raise the quality of the work done with these children.
A community support team is being established to serve the projects with specialists such as, physiotherapists, occupational therapist, medical Nurse, educational supervisor, psychologist, and social worker. The team is responsible for raising the quality of the services provided for children and adults in the different projects and to build good relation with families and activities in the local societies.
The above mentioned projects provide:
- Habilitation & Training - Family Counseling - Physiotherapy - Occupational therapy - Communication and social skills - Activity of daily living - Social service - Medical service - Vocational Training & work - Self care skills - Motor skills - Academic skills - Knowledge of surroundings skills - Recreational activities
SOIR give training and education to staff and volunteers working in the different projects, to families of the children and adults, also to workers and students working and studying in the filed of special education. SOIR held different lectures, workshops, seminars in the filed of special education. Also SOIR held conferences to spread the knowledge and awareness about the right to integrate children with intellectual disabilities in the society.
SOIR receives visitors from Jordan and abroad in order, to inform about its work, also our staff made visits to Sweden to gain experience in the filed of services for persons with intellectual disabilities. The aim is to spread knowledge and awareness about this group.
SOIR PROGRAM FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE
2- Quality at an individual level 3- Quality on an organizational level
According to the agreement between SOIR and its counterparts Concerning schooling for children and daily activity for adults. "The service should provide purposeful schooling or daily activity Based on the child/persons ability, needs and wishes, Which contribute to personal development, To a good life for the child/person and his family, And to participation in the normal life of the community".
Quality at an individual level
Individual goals for the participant child or adult should be formulated, and assessed, three twice yearly in meetings between the individuals parents or other family representative, and the responsible staff member (teacher/adult instructor), and the relevant Community Support Team (CST) member if requested. Each meeting should be documented, stating the goals agreed on for the coming year, based on an assessment of the past half-year progress. The assessment should include the individuals personal progress and situation, the relation to the family and the nature of the program, from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. Documentation of these meetings should be available as a basis for the Quality Review of the concerned project. Accordingly personal files kept by CST members, and project directors, should be accessible to parents, or for inspection, if requested.
Quality on an organizational level
The monthly reports submitted by the projects to the SOIR office provides a review and assessment of the activities carried out, and the monthly usage of services. Attendance levels, admittances and discharges, frequency of habilitation, and parent meetings..etc, are activities which are recorded and reported.
These provide the basis for a monthly quality review based on frequency and character of activities recorded in a quantitative dimension. The qualitative review is addressed through the collective expression of satisfaction/ dissatisfaction expressed on such occasions.
An annual report, based on the documentation referred to, provides a review of both the quantitative and qualitative aspect of the project. The extent to which activities take place, the degree to which expressed goals are fulfilled, and expressions of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, reflect the users assessment of the service. The capacity usage of the services is also quantified on an annual basis. An additional area of work concerns the documentation of the tasks of the Community Support Team. Procedures for documentation of both admission and discharge, of individual training programs, of referrals to other services, are examples of qualitative measures being summarized and recorded. The area regarding the qualitative advancement of staff is reflected in the extent to which measures are taken to provide in-service training, for example study days and training programs, or participation in external activities contributing to staff development. Likewise records of activities carried out by SOIR staff in spreading knowledge and experience to others (presentations at conferences, tutoring of other staff groups, training programs offered to families of beneficiaries, consultative activities) reflect the quality of the service as a whole, at both central office and local project levels. Records of all such activities should be accounted for in the Annual Quality Report.
Hadeel challenging her
handicap
In cooperation with the Zakat committee of Hai Nazal and Zakat Fund, SOIR established a center for providing education, habilitation and training for children with severe intellectual disabilities in 1999. Since then the project is offering its services to 21 children, living in Nazal, Akhdar and Ras Al Ain areas. The center has good contact with the families of the children and the local society. Most of the families are appreciative for the work done to their children; they usually are very impressed with the development of their children and the results of training. For example Mrs. Mona, Hadeel's mother who is a 13 years old girl in Nazal project expressed her feelings as follows:
Qote "Hadeel was admitted to the class in Nasal project on Sept., 2000. Hadeel has intellectual and physical disability. She could not eat by herself, used diapers all the time; she did not have good social contact…etc. She was afraid from strangers, un accepted by her sister Hedaya, who is 15 years old, but has a good relation with her brother Emad, who is 17 years old and have a mild mental retardation and who luckily started at the vocational training center.
Hadeel benefited from Nazal center for 8 years. She had continuous training on daily living activities and got the chance to have physio therapy, occupational therapy, she started to have good friends in the center who likes her. I my self got a very good support from Rozana the special teacher responsible for the center and the community support team. May be you like to know that Hadeel now walks alone, independent in activities of daily living, she eats, drinks and goes to the toilet alone. My husband, who was sick for more than two years with brain cancer, passed away last year and left us without financial support. So Bayan the social worker helped me to get a financial support from the national aid fund. I'm grateful for the support given to my daughter; I didn't know what to do without you. Unquote."
Such a story gives hope to other families who should give chance for their children to develop and live a good life.
Participation of
the Swedish Organization for individual relief in Amman in the first
comprehensive Conference and Exhibition
Of the main subject of the lecture
vocational rehabilitation for people with mental disabilities & the
elderly explain the objectives of the Swedish Organization vision and
faith in the possibility of rehabilitation of persons with mental
disabilities to become productive with all his physical and mental
health. To find out more ...... download the lecture here
Opening of the new
main building of the Swedish Organization for Individual Relief - Jordan
EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate General Education and Culture TEMPUS- MEDA IB_JEP-33143-2005 (JO) Project
IB for Support of Inclusive Special Education 01/09/2006 –28/02/2010 Participating institutions and organisations: - Lund University, Sweden - University of Jordan, Amman - Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma’an - Malmö University, Sweden - Humboldt University Berlin, Germany - The Swedish Organisation for Individual Relief (SOIR) - South Society for Special Education, Ma’an - Al-Hussein Society for the Habilitation Rehabilitation of the Physically Challenged
The Tempus Programme Changes in higher education through people to people cooperation The Trans-European mobility scheme for university studies funds projects between the higher education sector in the EU and its 26 partner countries to facilitate university modernization, mutual learning between regions and peoples and understanding between cultures. The Tempus partner regions are the Western Balkans, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, North Africa and the Middle East.
Joint European Projects (JEPs) for training courses for institution building (IB) concentrate on developing the administrative and institutional structures of the partner countries through the provision of short-term courses aimed at upgrading the skills of non-academic staff from public and private institutions who may play a key role in the transition process.
Further information: http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/tempus/index_en.html
Project Title: IB for Support of Inclusive Special Education Wider objective: To improve education and integration of children with special needs Specific project aims and objectives
1. to create an Inclusive Special Education (ISE) Support Centre at the University of Jordan as a hub for capacity building, competence development and open access to ISE services. The aims are: 2. to improve Inclusive Special Education (ISE); 3. to improve cooperation between Higher Education (HE) and public and private organisations; 4. to offer tools to public and private organizations and institutions; 5. to develop Human Resources in the field of Inclusive Special Education and provide potential public and/or private employers with qualified teachers/trainers; 6. to create an area for mutual exchange of practical experience and theory and to apply theory to solve problems in practical situations
Announcement of the First IBSISE Dissemination Conference at the University of Jordan October 6-7, 2008 (preliminary) Conference Theme: TOWARDS INCLUSIVE EDUCATION Please contact the Jordan Coordination team at the University of Jordan for further information and invitation: Dr Hatem Al Khamra (Hatemalkhamra@gmail.com) Dr Mayada Al Natour (Mnatour@ju.edu.jo) Dr Imfadi Abu Hola (abuhola@ju.edu.jo) Conference language: English, with simultaneous translation
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