Presentation of Vita association

GRUNDTVIG: LEARNING PARTNERSHIPSMeeting for representatives of organisations:

9th-11 th December 2013 inSlovenija

OUR BASIC DATA• Dunajska c. 106, Ljubljana• Tel.: 01/565 87 96, • 040 455040,040455149• Fax: 01/565 87 97• drustvo.vita92@gmail.com,• www.vita-poskodbe-glave.si

• ESTABLISHED in NOVEMBER 1992 by parents of seriously brain injured children• VITA is volunatry, non-profit, national, representative disability organisation• It has public inportance/interes in health, social and culture• MEMBERSHIP: brain injured people and their parents, realtives, experts and

supporting memberes• OUR seat of association is in Ljubljana, but we also have branches in Koper,

Jesenice, Novo mesto , Kočevje, Celje, Maribor, Murska sobota

PROVIDED PROGRAMS• Network of day care• Housing group/residental community• Support for families with brain injured person• transport of Persons with Disabilities• Help at home and implemented assistance at

home• Publishing and informative activity• Camps (international, peer camps, recovery and

rehabilitation camps)• physiotherapy

PROVIDED ACTIVITIES• INTEREST ACTIVITIES• WORKSHOPS (psychological, educational, speech therapy, spiritual,

drama-literaraly worshop)• Disability aids-division of assets to members by call• Sport activities and social meetings• Education and prevention• Social inclusion • International cooperation• Prevention of architectural and communication barriers-sharing funds to

members of a call• Local projects: Litija, Zasavje, Celje, Kočevje, Črnomelj, Murska Sobota,

Koper, Jesenice, Novo mesto…• Health project • Audio book• Culture project

Sources of funding• Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs (the day care

centers), Ministry of Culture, MJU Institute for Health, MSS (Ministry of school and sport)

• Employment Service of Slovenia (public works and other programs)

• Municipality of Ljubljana (Public Works, program DC), • Municipalities: IG, Koper, Kočevje, Murska sobota…and

others, Celje, Maribor, Jesenice…• Foundation of disability and humanitarian organizations, FIHO

(horseback riding, swimming, excursions and operation) • Other: membership fees, contributions from members,

donations

Goals• Reintegration brain injured persons into society• Eliminate communication barriers• Enable injured people to represent themselves and their

interests by themselves or with help of others• To create a legal, medical, social and environmental

system that will help the injured and relatives• Consulting injured persons and families• Information activity• Cooperation with similar institutions, associations at the

national and European level• Advocacy and the acquisition of rights for the injured

persons and families

Cooperation with institutions• Institut for rehabilitation• Medical center• Institut rainbow, Institut Step,Institut Forward, Institut Old

mountain • Centers of social work • Advisory center• Other non-governmental organizations and associations,

NSIOS, CNVOS, Minvos• Ministry of Welfare, Health, Education and Sport, who are

also funders of programs• BIF European confederation ( Brain Injured and families)• Austrian Society for aid after brain injury SHG-SHT, with

Spanish association

Activities in network of day centers• Network of day centers’ daily program includes

protection/care, work, learning and therapies in Ljubljana and Kočevje, wich is funded by Ministry of welfare, Fiho, and Municipalities: MOL, Kočevje

• Daily activities: creative workshops, lifelong learning,therapies, protection and care, work, sport, leisure activities

• Creative workshops (painting on silk, paper, glass, various products and greeting cards)

• Yoga and massage• Studying foreign languages: English, Spanish,

French

Day centers• Exercise and Recreation• Therapeutic and recreational horseback riding,

swimming, physiotherapy, speech therapy workshops

• Psychological workshops, folklore, spirituality workshops and religious content, traffic education, music workshops, dance, ceramics

• Organizing trips, treks, visits to cultural sites

• Organizing picnics and meetings with sport activities

Camps

• Throughout the year we perform many different camps: in the spa, on the farm, nearside the river, at sea. The camps attend members and their families. If they need help and assistance they get help from employees, volunteers and students.

• Family camps are organized at spa in rented holiday homes with possibility of swimming and implementation of therapies

• Vita association with BIF cooperation organizes once a year annual camp abroad

Home help and personal assistance

• We perform home help and personal assistance in different places throughout Slovenija with our employees and volunteers.

• The association has employees who work for the implementation of assistance and help at home in the afternoon or in the morning and, if necessary, during the weekend. Help is carried out as monitoring injured people during activities, such as: walks, visits, events or workshops.

Residental community

• Vita Association implements program of residental community since 2006, at first on Zakotnikova 9, last year we opened a new one on Jakšičeva 7 in Ljubljani

EDUCATION

• We perform different educational lectures • For our members• For Family members of injured people• For pupils and students• For employees and volunteers• Themes: • Prevention in the road traffic,• About consequences of head injuries and rehabilitation• Counseling/giving advices about legal and social issues

INTERNATION COOPERATION

• BIF • TBI (Trauma brain injury) Challenge• CMEPIUS-learning partnerships

WORSHOPS we will implement in January

• GYM –exercising in the morning at 9.00-9.30• CERAMIC workshop: kneading clay, designing products, burning clay• MUSIC therapy: singing, playing instruments, knowing Slovenian folk and popular music…• DANCE therapy: dancing in group, learning dance steps (Slovenian polka, valse, and other

dances)• KNITTING /WEAVING BASKET – group of 2/3 making a basket with a volunteer• ORIGAMI-making intersting designs from paper, paper folding• Exercisings of breathing-how to breath more efficiently• Kinesiology-exercises for good balance, coordination• Knowing the culture of other counties (Cyprus, Turkey, Poland, england) within conversation

with other who will be our guestes –interaction in english…(proposition: each country should introduce their attractions and speacialities, their habits and

culture…with simbols, stories, photos…)• Theater workshop-making dolls, make a story...• Painting on glass• Introduction of Judo sport for disabled people

JUDO

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