Title: Working Groups on Work and Values: overview
1Working Groups on Work and Values overview
- Caritas Europa
- Social Policy Forum
- Sarajevo, October 13-16, 2004
2What do we do ? - Aid
- Distribution of clothes
- Charity soup kitchens
- meal delivery
- Medical aid
3What do we do ? - programs and activities
- Legal counseling, social counseling, Â long
distance adoption , - Family mediation support,
- employment programs
- social enterprise programs
- sports programs
4What do we do ? - Categories
- Drug users
- single mothers
- homeless, street children
- victims of human trafficking
- migrants, refugees, ethnic minorities
- prisoners and ex-prisoners
- victims of war and violence (women and children)
5What do we do ? - institutions
- home care
- social stations day care centers
- shelters hostels
- kindergarten
- Services for the disabled
- Services for people with mental illness
6What do we do ? - policies
- Advocacy, awareness raising
- co-ordination
- administration
- training of workers and volunteers
- theological reflection
- prevention strategies
- fundraising
7What do we do ? - Summary
- Broad range of ways
- - social action - grass roots - institutional
care - policiesto look at the theme of our
conference - ? broad attendance
8What do we do ? - Summary
- ? Important building the network
- - caritas as a movement / family
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- - sense of ownership
9Values, beliefs, motivations
- Personal level
- happiness, feeling well, satisfaction that I can
help, I like it - share (myself) with other people
- feel useful
- self-realisation
10Values, beliefs, motivations
- Respond to need
- Help elderly people, people in need, children
- Help people so they can look after themselves
(empowerment)
11Values, beliefs, motivations
- More theoretical concepts
- human dignity
- solidarity
- love to the people
- social justice, fight injustice
- option for the poor
12Values, beliefs, motivations
- Faith
- Suffering person is sacred / image of God
- Christian charity
- specific spirituality (founder/ rel. order)
- see Christ in every human being
- own spiritual development
- being a sinner
- link with parishes
13Values, beliefs, motivations
- Relation to others
- Link with other world views / religions
- link with larger community
- no criterion for selection of clients
- all clients treated with respect
14Values, beliefs, motivations
- Other elements
- professionalism
- institutional values
- individual values (social workers)
- legal frame
15Values beliefs - Summary
- ? Shared and converging elements
- (Cf. Goal 2 of implementation plan)
- SWOT strengths, opportunities
- client as a person (sacred as image of
God) empowerment - common language
- taking clinical input to grass root level
16Link work/ beliefs challenges
- Clear from face value (double meaning)
- time is given for reflection and meditation
- focus in action rather than words
- developing team spirituality as a source to
live from - (e.g. base community)
- ? keeping values beliefs in the picture
17Link work/ beliefs challenges
- Impossible to help everyone (one has to choose
sometimes) - Difficult to choose right method or behaviour
(difficult clients) - human weakness (lack of patience)
- Routine of everyday life need to remind oneself
of values
18Link work/ beliefs challenges
- institutional rationale takes lead
- government demands
- enough attention for the most excluded ?
- Church documents not reflected or implemented
- Role as church agency / ngo ?
19Faith inspires work
- Just one  God lives in every manÂ
- Should inspire us to continue to work with
excluded people - ? in our daily care
- ? in our advocacy work
- ? ? ? From empowerment to advocacy