Grants

Grants Health Social Care Partnerships Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova UK Grants awarded to date The following is a list of projects that are currently being supported by HSCP. If you would like further information on any of these projects, please contact the scheme administrators. In Russia: Training/Retraining of Managers of Health Care Oriented to meet the needs of the health of population (RUS002/2) Russian Partner: Association of Educational Programmes in Health UK Partner: Imperial College, School of Management School, London Project Summary: The aim of this project is to improve the quality, availability and efficacy of primary health care to poor people. The project will train/retrain managers of health care in line with existing international standards in management, economics, public health, marketing, legislation and psychology of health. A training course will be established using the resources of the Association of Educational Programmes in Health Administration with support from the Imperial College Management School, London. The Project expects to train up to 60 primary care managers in Moscow. Improving quality of P rimary H ealth C are in Russia (RUS004/2) Russian Partner: Russian Association on Thrombosis, Homeostasis and Vascular Pathology UK Partner: Cranfield University Project Summary : The aim of this project is to increase the efficiency of primary care provision by introducing quality management methods. This will be achieved by conducting a pilot implementation of a quality management system at a polyclinic in the Moscow area. The chosen polyclinic will become a Centre of Excellence that will act as a role model for primary care sector. The project is a partnership between the Russian Association on Thrombosis, Homeostasis and Vascular Pathology, Cranfield University, and East Norfolk Area Health Authority. The partnership between Cranfield and the Russian Association has existed for the past four years. Promoting Health Well-being amongst disadvantaged youth groups (RUS006) Russian Partner: AIDS Infoshare, Moscow UK Partner: The Pearl Trust Project Summary: A 12 month pilot programme in five regions of Moscow targeting vulnerable youth groups, educators, health and social care providers with the goal of promoting health and well-being and the reduction of communicable illnesses and trauma among homeless youth and orphans through increased access to health information and quality, user-friendly social support services. Partnership for Childcare and Fostering (RUS007) Russian Partner: The Childcare Research and Training Centre, Christian Solidarity, Moscow UK Partner: Christian Solidarity World-wide-UK Project Summary: The project proposes twinning Fosters Carers and Child Care Social Workers in Moscow and Dudley, with a view to sharing good practice and aiding the development of Foster Care and work with birth families in crises. There will be an emphasis on developing quality family-based careИ for children with disabilities and other special needs. The Our Family project, Moscow, is a multi-disciplinary childcare project where training and support will be given for staff and residential child care staff. As the Moscow foster care service provides training for other pilot foster care services throughout Russia, there will be ample opportunity for cascading information gained through this project. School for Leaders of Mental Health Patients Self-Help Groups (RUS008/2) Russian Partner: Public Initiatives on Psychiatry, Moscow UK Partner: GAMIAN-Europe Project Summary: This project aims to improve the quality life for patients with mental health problems. Some work and experience has been gained proving that self-help support groups are an effective means of improving the lives of mental health patients. There is however a shortage of leaders trained in working with such groups. The project proposes to establish a school fro group leaders. During the course of two years they will provide quarterly educational courses, which include workshops and training. Every course will educate 10-12 persons. At the end of the course participants should start a new self-help group. We plan to publish leaflets and booklets with necessary materials about self-help group's management and activity. Both our own materials and translations of the partner's data will be used. We plan to disseminate our experience (over the Internet and mass media) to stimulate such activity in other regions of Russian. We hope that the end of the project will establish an independent public movement. Developing Tools for Assessing and Teaching Child Development In The 0-3 Age Group (RUS012/2) Russian Partner: Chair of Nursing in Paediatrics, Russian Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education, Moscow UK Partner: St. Mary�s NHS Trust Project Summary: The aim of this project is to develop and implement an education and training system for nurses in order that they can assess and evaluate the psychomotor development of infants and children at an early stage and so that they can appropriately refer children to other institutions for specialised integration, medico-psychological and pedagogical rehabilitation. This will impact on the social integration of these children. An algorithm will be developed to be used at ambulatory clinics and in hospitals. It will incorporate how to asses child development, analyse the observations, detect deviations, liase with medial specialists and refer children on for treatment. Multidisciplinary Team Led Care for Neurologically Disabled Patients (RUS020) Russian Partner: Pavlov�s St. Petersburg City Medical University, St. Petersburg UK Partner: St. George�s Hospital Medical School Project Summary: The project aims to complete the training required for nurses and occupational therapists in multidisciplinary teams, which have been established as a result of previous projects 9funded by HSPS). These currently serve as model teaching centres, caring for neurologically disabled patients in hospital and rehabilitation centres, and more recently, at home, and to facilitate the spread of this good practice. The project is specifically targeted to meet existing deficiencies agreed by both partners. It consists of exchange visits by key personnel, to include teaching sessions and work experience in the relevant settings in both countries. The project aims to ensure the highest standards of professional multidisciplinary care will be replicated. Training will also be provided to enable the setting up of a clinic offering continence advice, and to facilitate immunological diagnosis of common neurological disorders. TOPS - Togliatti Outreach Project for HIV/STI Prevention Amongst Sex Workers (RUS023) Russian Partner: Parents Against Drugs, Togliatti UK Partner: I C Consultants (ICON) Imperial University Project Summary: The aim of the project is to provide an urgent and vital response to the alarming rise in HIV and STIs amongst Togliatti City�s �hidden populations�, by giving commercial sex workers (CSWs) greater access to sexual health information, support and clinical services. To meet this aim, the partners will launch an outreach service targeted exclusively to CSWs, modelled along the lines of the Praed Street Project (St Mary�s Hospital). This unique initiative, TOPS, will: Provide training in community outreach work and provision of appropriate and attractive sexual health and advice services for CSWs; Contact CSWs directly on the streets and at other places of work, assess their needs and offer professional advice, counselling and support; Give CSWs practical support by providing condoms, free STI clinical services, information leaflets and condom negotiation skills so that they can take effective steps to protect their sexual health; Attempt to alter sex workers� attitudes to formal STI services and encourage improved health seeking behaviour; Provide an appropriately equipped Outreach Team Support Centre for meetings, ongoing training and support, and assess the feasibility of developing this site into a friendly and supportive drop-in centre for CSWs. In Ukraine: Developing Health and Social Care Provision in Crimea (UKR001) Ukraine Partner: The Ministry of Social Protection Crimea, Ukraine UK Partner: University of Sheffield / Southern Health and Social Services Board Northern Ireland Project Summary: To promote the health and wellbeing of specified vulnerable groups living in state boarding houses. This will be achieved through the professional development of staff in the boarding houses and through service developments. Drug Abuse and HIV amongst young people in Ukraine (UKR002) Ukraine Partner: Re-socialisation Centre for Drug Addicted Youth [Kiev] UK Partner: Anglia Polytechnic University [APU] Project Summary: The purpose of this project is to enable a transfer of knowledge and expertise from the UK to colleagues in Kiev, Ukraine. It will support the development of new multi-disciplinary therapeutic models to improve the health and social care of young people with drug addictions, particularly those with HIV. Drug addiction amongst vulnerable young people is a serious problem in Ukraine. The approach is based on service user involvement. Ukraine colleagues wish to learn from existing practice in the UK. This project arises from a seven-year partnership between Anglia Polytechnic University and colleagues in Kiev. Reform of Childcare Systems-Demonstration in Lviv Oblast (UKR003) Ukraine Partner: Lviv Oblast Administration (Humanitarian) UK Partner: The European Children�s Trust Project Summary: The Lviv internat project will demonstrate how social work support to families can prevent children�s admissions to care and enable families to regain their children from institutions. Training frontline Social Workers in Ukraine (drug abuse/HIV) (UKR005) Ukraine Partner: Substance Abuse and AIDS Prevention Foundation UK Partner: Camden Islington Community Health Services NHS Project Summary: The project is aimed at preparing trainers and social work specialists from NGOs working in the area of the HIV epidemic in Ukraine. Potential specialists will be those with HIV themselves, their relatives and other beginner volunteers who have just entered work in NGOs providing services to those with HIV/AIDS problems. Preserving and Restoring Family Life for Kyiv �Street Children� (UKR007) Ukraine Partner: �Aspern�, Kiev UK Partner: The University of Manchester Project Summary: This partnership between Manchester University and two local NGOs in Kiev aims to develop, support and evaluate primary and secondary prevention of orphaned, abandoned and runaway children. The project will provide training inputs for staff and create a system for continuing staff development. It will also evaluate scientifically the impact of these services on children and their families using standardised measures and data collection at two time points. Models of good practice will be generated for integration and wider dissemination. CARE Working (UKR008) Ukraine Partner: CARE, Donetsk UK Partner: Social Care Initiatives Network (SCIN) Project Summary: The project will be run jointly by SCIN and CARE and aims to build CARE�S capacity to deliver effective services through organisational development and provision of professional expertise. At present CARE is a small and poorly resourced NGO in the Ukraine and needs to improve and extend its range of skills including organisational development and fund-raising. It will then be better able to deliver information and training to the poorest and most vulnerable groups in the Donetsk region and to professional staff in order to reduce the impact of STD HIV/AIDS and to attract funding to enable it to do so. In Belarus: I ntroduction to the Principles and Practice of Foster Care for Children (BEL002) Belarus Partner: Belarussian Association of Assistance to Handicapped Children Young People UK Partner: West Sussex County Council Project Summary: The purpose of this project is to promote the principle of providing substitute family care for children in Belarus whom, for whatever reason, cannot be cared for by their natural parents. The project proposes a 3-year pilot to train staff to identify, recruit, train and support foster carers for up to 60 children. Approximately 70% of the children will have mild to moderate disabilities. The project plans to train groups of 7, over a period of three years. The aim is to provide training for up to 64 staff. 16 staff have already been trained through funding provided by DFID, this will bring the total to 80. This will be sufficient to begin a process of cascading training for all those involved in providing care for children. Foster Care Training Programme (BEL003) Belarus Partner: Gomel Regional Association �Education� UK Partner: Chernobyl Children�s Project Project Summary: To develop and extend the concept of family placement for children, including those with disabilities in Belarus. To enable children, including those with mild to moderate disabilities, whose birth family cannot care for them to live with a substitute family. To provide comprehensive training to enable pilot fostering scheme to be established. To create a system of family placement services and a team of experts that will cascade the training throughout the Republic. Rehabilitation for Social Orphans in Belarus (BEL006) Belarus Partner: Medicine and Chernobyl, Minsk UK Partner: The Department of Applied Community Studies, Manchester University Project Summary: This project aims to set up a centre for rehabilitation to provide services for up to 400 orphans a year. The project will organise a group of trainers to provide social rehabilitation services for orphans, using best UK practice. The partnership is between an NGO in Belarus called Medicine and Chernobyl which was founded in 1991 by a group of doctors, and Manchester Metropolitan University, which has extensive experience of working in Central/Eastern Europe and the FSU. Both are well-established organisations. In Moldova Sharing of Imformation and Regional Networking (MOL002) Moldova Partner: The Municipal Directorate for the Protection of Children�s Rights, Chisinau UK Partner: The European Children�s Trust Project Summary: The project aims to secure the future of the alternative services implemented by the Directorate for the Protection of Children�s Rights through sharing of information and regional networking. The project incorporates a range of training activities that include conferences, study tours, round tables and seminars. Materials will also be published about the success of the Directorate�s strategy in reorganising and developing family-friendly, child-centred services in collaboration with international organisations such as the European Children�s Trust. The project will identify and engage with decision-makers and policy-makers in order to facilitate reforms in the child-care system which will affect the whole country. The project will promote the sharing of information and lessons learnt nation-wide, working towards their incorporation into government social policy. Furthermore, the project will raise public awareness of children and families issues, and help develop the capacity of local groups of parents to advocate and lobby on behalf of their communities. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Funded by DFID Managed by HLSP Consulting This site is maintained by Toby Cave . Design by Rabiya Reza