Training for employees on “Interpersonal communication”
Training for employees on “Interpersonal communication” was held in Portugal on May 2-6. The hosts of the training were Portuguese partners from Instituto de Apoio à Criança. The meeting was attended by employees from:
- Municipal social welfare Center from Żory,
- Instituto de Apoio à Criança,
- Viešoji įstaiga Mano šeimos akademija.
The training lasted 5 days, the first two days was conducted by a team from Portugal on:
- What is interpersonal communication?
- Competencies associated with interpersonal communication,
- How to improve communication between professionals, foster families, children and youth.
On the third day, the Polish team presented issues related to:
- How to effectively manage interpersonal communication in conflict situations.
The Lithuanian team devoted the fourth day to:
- Assertiveness, aggression or submission in interpersonal communication.
The last day was to sum up the training and discuss the new knowledge gained. There was also time to talk about the future “help-desk”. All employees obtained valuable and necessary knowledge, which is necessary for everyday work in their profession, and certificates confirming participation in the training were also handed out.
Information about the International Conference on the website of Żory Town Hall.
International conference
The Social Welfare Center in Żory participates in the Erasmus+ project entitled “Academy of conscious parenting. “The project aims to increase knowledge and skills in raising foster parents. Its aim is to improve knowledge and parenting skills of foster parents as well as to develop competencies of MOPS employees supporting those parents. On April 30th another conference took place within this project.
Within the framework of the project, Katarzyna Kosztyła-Hus, deputy director of the Municipal Social Welfare Center in Żory, and Katarzyna Kaniepień, manager of the Provincial Adoption Center in Katowice, branch in Rybnik, took part in an international conference organized by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security in Lithuania titled “Užsienio šalių šalių”. “Užsienio šalių vaikų globos sistemos ir patirtys”, which means “Child care systems and different experiences of foreign countries”. The conference was held in online format.
Katarzyna Kosztyła-Hus and Katarzyna Kaniepień in their speeches talked about the organization of foster care and adoption in Poland. They also touched upon the issue of providing care to Ukrainian children coming to Poland without legal guardians due to the armed conflict.
Presentations on foster care and adoption were also given by specialists from Lithuania and the United Kingdom, and for the first time additionally by specialists from France and the United States. More than 500 viewers participated in the online conference. The participation of the Social Welfare Center in Żory in the international conference was possible thanks to the realization of the project within the Erasmus + Program entitled “„Conscious Parent Academy – Replacement parent urgently needed!”.
