" 53 YEARS PROTECTING CHILDREN IN COLOMBIA"

Our main accomplishments for this period:

• 100% of families are participating in a comprehensive support strategy, effectively enrolling in children and teenagers processes from different areas of intervention.
• Effective participation on events coordinated by the Major's Office of Medellín such as Cultural and Artistic Fair with a talent show in plastic arts.
• There was a continued participation on Getting Ready for an Independent Life program with several visits to universities and colleges.

Social Work

• There were two institutional programs created: The Abuse Prevention and Kindness Promotion for children and teenagers and It is Possible in Family for custodians.
• The project "Families Getting Stronger Together," coordinated by our social worker apprentice, was successfully finished. It was evaluated by focus group on childrearing practices and its main characteristics: rules, authority figures, limits, stimulae, and sanctions.

There was a Kind Treatment Day, where participants expressed their positive feelings with their peers in an activity called The Feelings Ring.

In our Knitting Smiles Project where participants get ready to emerge, we made activities to introduce teenagers to the use and knowledge of social network within their local neighborhood.

The Kind Treatment Day was reinforced by a strategy called Colivingmeter as an assurance of learning of interpersonal relationships among children.

Our Pedagogy Unit implemented the Family School strategy to teach study techniques and routines at home. 

Psychology

Projects:

• My Life Plan
• Drug Prevention
• Sex- Ed
• Vocational Guidance
• Teens and children individual care
• Family care
• Motivational Strategy by system points.

Individual psychiatric and neuropsychology consultation has led to the establishment of intervention objectives directed towards teens and children on a cognitive, behavioral, emotional, familiar and social level.

Psychoeducational support continues to be an excellent opportunity for families to clear specific doubts regarding their role with teens and children.

Health and Nutrition

• Nutritional consultation and health management
• Nutrition aid
• Health promotion and disease prevention

All children received medical and dental care accounting as much as 150 processes.

Children and families suffering from nutritional deficiencies continued on our nutritional consultation and support system.

The institution health care professional strengthened our health program with local entities such as Savia Salud, Metrosalud, Homo de Almacentro, Choan farmacia, Colsubsidio, Salud Total, Sura, Hospital Concejo de Medellín, Salucoop, Nueva Eps and Instituto Neurológico de Colombia; consequently there was an increase in time efficiency for health consultations, diagnosis and treatments.

Pedagogy

• Vocational guidance
• Coexistence pact
• While we get home- INDER
• Exploring the Internet and Reading Promotion – COMFAMA
• Flute lessons
• Theater Lessons

Academic Achievements among others.

-          Food handlers received training on temperature control and weight standardization process on served meals continued.

-          Every child participated on study sessions with school workshops and tutoring.

-          We continued our contemporary dance training and reinforced artistic and creative skills, body image, body self-awareness and acknowledgement of technical and rhythmical elements with The Dance Network. We also continued preparations for the December Choreography Show.

-          We continued screening School Report Cards for the second period to prepare accordingly with tutoring sessions.

-          The environmental project continued with Thursday’s meetings led by Luis Amigo’s pedagogy intern.

Testimony of a beneficiary, 11 years old

“I learned to get ahead with the help of my teachers… My life has changed since the first day I got to the Corporation. I love their activities; it is to be at a place where you can live in peace”

Links:

• http://corporacionsuperarse.org/site/