1. Social Work Framework for Outreach Work Presentation 7

2. Social Work Social Work is a professional activity that helps to solve social problems. It helps in increasing people’s possibilities. It ensures equal approach to people to improve their well-being. Presentation 7

3. Social Work Goals Social Work aims at making a client free of need in a social worker. Social Work includes three areas. Presentation 7

4. 1. Management of Social Work Organization of Social Work, management, social work methodology development. Presentation 7

5. 2. Social Service Direct service provision to a client to satisfies client’s needs. Clients – socially disadvantaged people – Disabled people – Children with special needs – Etc. Presentation 7

6. 3. Prevention Social Work Social supervision of clients representing vulnerable populations. – IDUs – Street children Client – socially excluded, marginalized, hard- to-reach people. Presentation 7

7. Outreach Work OW belongs to the area of Prevention Social Work. At the same time this areas has management component as well. Presentation 7

8. Outreach – reaching out Is a method of Social Work that aims at establishing contacts and providing information, counseling, means of prevention to closed social groups in locations most suitable/common for those groups. Central Idea: Rhythm of client’s life defines time, length and place of providing help. Presentation 7

9. Goals of Outreach Work Inform clients of risks that emerge from the client’s life style; means of preventing those risks and risks consequences. Changing client’s behavior from more dangerous to less dangerous. Making a contact between a client and medical and social services. Social re-integration of a Client. Finding volunteers among the clients to conduct peer eduction. Presentation 7

10. Please think and write down what you FEEL towards Young man using injecting drugs? Gay man taking drugs anally? Heavily pregnant woman injecting heroin? Heavily pregnant woman injecting methamphetamine? Client of substitution treatment taking stimulants? Man forcing his women into sex work to buy drugs? Woman forcing her daughter into sex work to buy drugs? Presentation 7

11. Target groups of Outreach Work Vulnerable to HIV populations (IDUs, CSWs, MSM, street children) who: Can be found in the street; Have special meeting places; Due to certain conditions are closed for social service providers. These characteristics pre-define the way BCC strategies are implemented! Presentation 7

12. Principles of Outreach Work 1. Objective perception of injection drug users (IDUs). Choice to use drugs by the other person is taken as a fact. – Neither good nor bad Methods of work assume that a client is not going to stop using drugs. Drug users are not made quit taking drugs although they can be motivated for this. – Social Worker’s trap: motivation ≠ making ≠ talking into BUT ₌ to understanding when motivation is needed. Presentation 7

13. Principles of Outreach Work 2. Prevention support of IDUs as a low threshold service. Low threshold criteria: IDU is provided help even if s/he is under drugs effect. IDU is offered help for free: counseling, syringe exchange, etc. Presentation 7

14. Principles of Outreach Work 3. Free will IDU makes own choices regarding necessary help from outreach worker. 4. Anonymity IDU provides outreach worker with the personal information s/he finds is necessary. 5. Confidentiality Keeping in secret different aspects of client’s life with whom an outreach worker is in contact. Presentation 7

15. Principles of Outreach Work 6. Non - judgmental attitude towards IDUs is a moral principle of providing help to anyone who needs this help. 7. Being ready to work with any person independently on his/her believes, values in order to minimize possible harms from drug use. – Refer to “FEEL” exercise. Were you judgmental or not? Presentation 7

16. Using posters from previous exercise think Where/for which purposes can you apply outreach work, think of groups you did not provide outreach for. Which methods might help in establishing outreach work for those groups? What result of outreach work we aim at? Presentation 7

17. Results of outreach work Result of outreach work is a client’s behavior change to less risky with consequent change of destructive aims to instructive ones. Presentation 7

18. Results of outreach work Active participants of IDUs in planning prevention programme; Safer drug use; Responsible behavior towards sexual partners and close environment Participation on peer education Planning and implementation of positive changes in life (treatment, seeking for counseling,visiting self- help groups. Presentation 7

19. Results of outreach work The main goal of Outreach work as a type of social work is to create for the client an environment. Where client can solve own problems with social worker’s help. This can be reached through Information– providing IEC Counseling - qualified help in solving problems. Providing access to social and medical help. Presentation 7