NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION AS RESOURCE FOR SUPPORT OF A CHILD WITH DISABILITIES

• Main Authors: Светлана Анатольевна Калашникова, Лариса Геннадьевна Заборина
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Science and Innovation Center Publishing House 2013-09-01
• Series: Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem
• Subjects: nonprofit organization, the child with disabilities, living environment, support, social integration, voluntarism
• Online Access: http://journal-s.org/index.php/sisp/article/view/446

<p>Nonprofit organization is represented as significant resource for support of children with disabilities which helps to resolve social integration problems efficiently. The characteristic of nonprofit foundation for support children and teenagers with developmental delay and also citizens in hard situation named “Psycholog” (eng. Psychologist), which conducts its activity in Chita City, Transbaikal region is considered. The problem of psychological resource of children with disabilities is denoted as the process and result of interaction in system “human- living environment” in the context of the systematic approach.</p><p>The potential of nonprofit organization is examined as resource of social training of volunteers and of the formation of their social and professional competence. The theoretic and methodological principles defining the professional attitude of nonprofit organization employees and the content of implementable work programs with children with disabilities are revealed. The support of children with disabilities with the help of nonprofit organization specialists is defined as the efficient social-psychological mechanism, providing the adequate implementation of the idea of social integration.</p><p><strong>DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2013-6-49">http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2013-6-49</a></strong></p>