Social Work Volunteering

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• Volunteering Code: BCN202
• Volunteering Name: Escort
• Host Organization*: Asistencia Parkinson
• Organization Description: Organization with the aim of promotion the integration and avoiding the isolation of parkinson patitents through services that minimize the physical and psychological consequences and that improve the life quality of the patients and their families. The organization also provides information related to the illness, and medical, psychological, legal and social assistance. The patients and their families bring in their experiences through workshops, courses, and self help groups. Professionals of the Social and Health fields cooperate with the organization.
• Volunteering Objective: The aim of this volunteer work is that you help improve the life quality of the patients and their families, that you make their daily activities easier for them, and that you provide them with emotional containment.
• Volunteering Description: You will be assigned some patients to escort them during daily activities and routines, you will help them move from one place to another, you will establish with them a emotional bond, and you will support them.
• General Requirements: You need to be able to cope with the patients' critical or emotional reactions, and to create a relaxed and cheerful atmosphere in which patients feel comfortable and safe. You need to have a natural predisposition to help. To have studies or experience in Health related fields are recommended though not necessary for this position.
• Language Requirements: Intermediate level of Spanish
• Start Date: Flexible
• Minimum Duration: 3 months

• Volunteering Code: BCN205
• Volunteering Name: Escort
• Host Organization*: Desarrollo Social
• Organization Description: Non profit organization with the mission of improving general life quality and of promoting the social integration of the disadvantaged sector, either for physical, psychological or social exclusion reasons. The organization has professionals with more than 20 years experience and about 200 volunteers and collaborators.
• Volunteering Objective: The aim of this volunteer placement is that you support the organization's professionals team, that you communicate with the patients to provide them with support throughout their program, that you help them during their abstinence period through different activities.
• Volunteering Description: As a volunteer you will cooperate with different activities and you will assist the Attention Centre's team in the drug addicts reinsertion programme and in the workshop activities. The tutor will define your duties according to your experience and preferences and might include physical activities, health care, cultural activities, games, etc.
• General Requirements: You need to be able to react positively in social risk situations, to have good adaptation skills, and to be ready to communicate with and relate to drug addicts.
• Language Requirements: Advanced level of Spanish
• Start Date: From September 2007
• Minimum Duration: 2 months

Last updated April 2007

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