SOCIAL WORK WITH SCHOOL CHILDREN IN THE COMMUNITY: PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE

Abstract

Nowadays the development and practical implementation of innovative models of social work with children stay reasonable as they can contribute to creating such conditions in the community that help promoting the rights and freedoms of the younger generation, realize their possibilities and effective socializing influence on personal development. The purpose of the article is to highlight the regional experience of social work with children of school age in the community. Research methods used: analysis and systematization of scientific and methodical literature on education to determine the state and theoretically substantiate the research problem; studying the legal framework of social work with children; the questionnaire and the survey that helped to estimate the level of children’s and young people’s life in the community, the efficiency of functioning of children institutions and departments that can provide educational and social services. With the help of the indicated methods, practical activities of state institutions, public organizations, specialists in business and social sphere, volunteers in the territorial community have been highlighted. It is obvious that the system of regular social work with children in the community is dynamic and requires the search and introduction of innovative forms of social support, protection, social and pedagogical activities as components that can provide social guarantees for the most vulnerable categories of population. Consequently, the integration of efforts, means and possibilities of state authorities, members of public and the private sector at the community level is important to create conditions for providing children with opportunities, promoting their constitutional rights, regardless of physical condition, sex, religion, etc., involving them in solving own problems, ensuring active participation in public life.