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1. The Intermediate Program
Goal
• Social adaptation of street children and children from dysfunctional families.
Methods
• Systematic team-work with state institutions -juvenile social services, department of social defense, police, schools
Expected Outcomes
• Identify and register homeless children, unmanageable teenagers and children from dysfunctional families
• Act as a liaison between child’s family and institutions or social services
• Assist with paperwork for housing, education, and jobs.
2. TheTouch Program
Goals
• Meet the daily needs of children
• Conduct preventative seminars for children
• Provide medical care utilizing appropriate institutions
Methods
• Identify children in need
• Assess children’s needs through home visitation
• Locate appropriate services
Expected Outcomes
• Consistent daily meals
• Improved hygiene through provision of bathing facilities
• Systematic checkups at appropriate medical institutes (polyclinics, hospitals, health centers)
• Increased knowledge of health issues through summer health camps
3. The Etiquette Program
Goal
• Educate children in standards of normal behavior
• Culture civilized habits
Methods
• Familiarization with ethics standards of different realms of social behavior
• Discussions and role playing to reinforce materials presented
Expected Outcomes
• Cultivation of skills and habits of behavioral norms.
4. Face to Face with Life: A Course of Survival on the StreetProgram
Goals
• Develop problem resolution skills to address issues arising in relationships, families, between peers, and with teachers and police
Methods
• Create scenarios of commonly encountered situations
• Model appropriate and acceptable forms of problem resolution
• Discuss and role play acceptable forms of problem resolution
Expected Outcomes
• Preparedness to effectively and positively handle conflicts that arise
• Raise awareness of personal mistakes and provide a model for change
5. Matrix Program
Goals
• Improve intellectual skills
• Encourage desire to learn
Methods
• Systematic training of memory development
• Improving reading skills
• Hands-on training in the use of computers
Expected Outcomes
• Stimulation of intellectual faculties
• Increased interest in learning >
6. The Conversion Program
Goals
• Introduce concept of Christ as a personal Savior
• Teach Christian values
Methods
• The systematic learning of the Old and New Testaments as the source of divine wisdom and as a collection of life experiences of previous generations.
• The acquaintance with the basis of faith in Jesus Christ as a Savior, Friend and Helper.
Expected Outcomes
• The strengthening of faith, personal values and moral rules.
7. The Creative Program
Goals
• Realization of innate abilities and acquired talents.
Methods
• Access to sport activities
• Arranging programs and performances for boarding schools and orphanages of Crimea
• Establishing of a joiner's shop, a sheet metal workshop, an art and craft shop.
• Participation in work of the music studio and innovative projects in the areas of sound recording, theater and web-design.
Expected Outcomes
• Provide an opportunity for children to express themselves (self-actualization)
• Provide the opportunity for children to earn their own money
8. The Outlook program
Goals
• To become an autonomous republic (state) organization “Street kids” (Children of the street)
Methods
• Conduct seminars to familiarize potential workers with the children’s psychology
• Provide information on the practical methods of work
Expected Outcomes
• Expand the scale of work
• Improve program quality
• Strengthen team spirit
• Provide emotional and spiritual support to people ministering in this area.
• Attract attention of society to the tragedy of the street kids
• Involve new people in the ministry
9. The Web program.
Goals
• Provide a more global invitation to participate in the work
• Secure financial support
• Relay information regarding needs and outcomes of the program
Methods
• Set up website
• Provide appropriate information
Expected Outcomes
• Development of strategic partnerships
• Locating sources of financial support for the program
• Locating individuals or companies willing to offer equipment, children’s clothes, medicine, and seasonal jobs for children