PREVENTIVE POTENTIAL OF A CITY TERRITORIAL COMMUNITY CONCERNING SOCIAL ORPHANHOOD PREVENTION

Larysa Kal'Chenko

doi:10.21303/2504-5571.2018.00798

Abstract

In the article the author reveals such concepts as “territorial community of a city”, “preventive potential”, “social capital”, “resourceful environment of a territorial community” in the context of social orphanhood prevention. Also in the research is present-ed author’s interpretation of the concept of “territorial community of a city” as a complex self-manageable social system of self-or-ganizing local communities (city quarters, areas of a big city etc.), members of which are individuals, governmental and non-gov-ernmental social organizations, non-commercial social organizations, neighborhoodhood groups and other microstructures united by common interests, goals and activity for treating own needs (everyday life, habitat, leisure time, education, communication) and localizations of possible of social risks, also solving of a problems of a territory. Characteristic features and features of effective functioning of territorial community are defined, among which are the following: presence of individual (separated members of a community) and collective subjects (network of public and governmen-tal organizations, social groups, neighborhoodhood unions etc.), their activity and degree of involvement in solving problems, character of interaction and permanence of connections between subjects (network of social interaction), availability of necessary resources of territorial community (as institutional, human, spiritual, time, material, administrative ones), territorial-cultural specificity of a community. In the article the author defines subjects of a community, which have preventive potential (resource) concerning social or-phanhod prevention in a territorial community of a city. The author also justifies the importance of creation of a resourceful envi-ronment of a territorial community of a city for prevention of family discomfort and neglection as well as homelessness of children, defines techniques of active involvement of community residents into solving of social problems including social orphanhood. Au-thor also reveals forms and methods of activation of a community for social orphanhood prevention

Highlights

For most civilized countries of the world the number of social orphans is a direct indictor of social-economic and spiritual-moral health of a nation, and the lower this number, the better condition of family and children in these countries is
Already from March of 2015 to December of 2017 within the project activity of the Social center of family strengthening of LRD of ICO, “CF “SOS Children’s village” the probation of the project of social orphanhood prevention was continued under conditions of the territory community of Starobilsk city in the north of Lugansk region
The active involvement of a community to the process of solving social problems of a territory started only from 2014 as a result of the beginning of the reform of power decentralization and acceptance of the Conception of the reform of local self-government and territorial organization of power (01.04.2014), Ukrainian laws «About cooperation of territorial communities» (17.06.2014) and «About voluntary association of territorial communities» (05.02.2015). This all gradually allowed to creation, according to statements of the European charter of local self-government, the essential active and effective institute of local self-government of the base level – united territorial communities (UTC)

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For most civilized countries of the world the number of social orphans is a direct indictor of social-economic and spiritual-moral health of a nation, and the lower this number, the better condition of family and children in these countries is. Among them only 8 174 have a status of children-orphans and children, deprived of parental care, that is 8.7 % of the total number of children in boarding schools. The ministry of social policy of Ukraine names among the main causes of this phenomenon the practical absence of services at the local level for supporting families with children, which are in difficult life conditions, insufficient work, directed on giving timely help to these families [2]. Under the pressure of more economically complicated, but democratic life conditions, involvement of local communities, mobilization (2018), «EUREKA: Social and Humanities» Number 6 of their resources and taking responsibility for the development of a territory by them become an important necessity for dwellers themselves, for politicians and for specialists, practicians and scientists, who study this process and offer innovative approaches of its optimization A conclusion is obvious! Under the pressure of more economically complicated, but democratic life conditions, involvement of local communities, mobilization (2018), «EUREKA: Social and Humanities» Number 6 of their resources and taking responsibility for the development of a territory by them become an important necessity for dwellers themselves, for politicians and for specialists, practicians and scientists, who study this process and offer innovative approaches of its optimization

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