ANALYSIS OF THE BULGARIAN EXPERIENCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIAL ADAPTATION OF SERVICEMEN, DISCHARGED FROM MILITARY SERVICE

Venelin Terziev

doi:10.18769/ijasos.531325

Abstract

Tracing the practice up to now, it is noteworthy that the attention of all organizations and institutions concerned with social adaptation of servicemen, discharged from military service, in the initial period of the 90s of last century, when in the structures of the Ministry of Defense drastic reforms were carried out, accompanied by a reduction of the staff,was initially focused only on goals for organization of the re-training (re-qualification) and job settling of servicemen, passing in the reserve. This is confirmedby the very legislation, as far as such can be considered existing in this period. The very names of the various documents suggest that at this stage the task of a comprehensive approach to solving the problem was not set. The specialist in given area, at the beginning of their activity believe, that the opprtunity of passing retraining in civil specialty allows the discharged from military service serviceman to getdecent work in civil life.

Highlights

The main directions in the work at this first stage were: Organization of educational institutions of different types; Formation of normative-legal basis for the organization of this conversion; Seeking and creating new jobs; Creatingakind of „military“ employment bureaus- specific offices for job finding, for the servicemen, discharged from military service; Formation of bodies for coordination of the system for conversion and finding jobsforservicemen, discharged from military service; Creation of material and technical organizational conditions for the functioning of this system, etc.A top priority of the formed conversion system is the conversion of the servicemen, discharged from military service, into civilian professions
Tracing the practice up to now, it is noteworthy that the attention of all organizations and institutions concerned with social adaptation of servicemen, discharged from military service, in the initial period of the 90s of last century, when in the structures of the Ministry of Defense drastic reforms were carried out, accompanied by a reduction of the staff,was initially focused only on goals for organization of the re-training and job settling of servicemen, passing in the reserve
Lack of qualified staff for managing the processes of social adaptation of discharged from military service servicemen and members of their families, etc. All these circumstances demand the development of a concept and model of social adaptation of this category of the population with a view to the best experience from the activities of individual organizations in the country, the positive foreign experience, and the results of their own experience and expertise work

Summary

INTRODUCTION

The main directions in the work at this first stage were: Organization of educational institutions of different types The negative trends of development of this system are: Predominant orientation of the state institutions to the retraining of discharged from military service servicemen and members of their families and limiting the process of their social adaptation to requalificationand partly job placement; Lack of coordination on the part of the government institutions with the activities of other organizations dealing with the problems of social adaptation of military reservists, including public and non-governmental organizations; Unresolved so far inter-institutional conflicts; High dependence of the activitiesfor social adaptation of the mentioned category on the population and on the amount of funding (determined by the budgetary framework of the National Action Plan for Employment); Lack of qualified staff for managing the processes of social adaptation of discharged from military service servicemen and members of their families, etc All these circumstances demand the development of a concept and model of social adaptation of this category of the population with a view to the best experience from the activities of individual organizations in the country, the positive foreign experience, and the results of their own experience and expertise work. Visits inthe Center for Re-qualification and Social Adaptation (CRSA)and the Regional Information Center (RIC) for information and consultancy

Registered members of servicemen families

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