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Strategy for 2017-2020
INTRODUCTION OF THE ORGANISATION Hand in Hand Foundation is an independent non-profit organisation which was established in 1993 in Hungary. One of its founders was Árpád Göncz, the board of trustees is chaired by dr. Sára Éliás and its president-for-life is Mrs Árpád Göncz. The managing director of the Foundation is Ákos Pordán and the head of its methodological department is Éva Kovács.
THE GOAL OF HAND IN HAND FOUNDATION Hand in Hand Foundation has been striving for the creation of an inclusive society where people with disabilities can live in dignity since 1993.
OUR VALUES I.
Empowerment
II. Human dignity III. Partnership
OUR ACTIVITIES APPROPRIATE SERVICES I.
Service and training development (development of the FECSKE service organisation model, family therapy, assessment of the need for support, programs to replace institutional living, development of social and child protection support services, continuing education in social affairs, child protection and for teachers and sensitisation in the specialist fields)
II. International relations (EASPD, international co-operations in bidding for support in ERASMUS+)
III. Anti-discrimination whistleblowing system and legal aid service IV. Info Base and Network of Information Points V. Training for teachers and professionals working in the field of social services and child protection VI. Performing the secretarial tasks of “CÉHálózat-Civic Advocacy Network”
WORKPLACE I.
Open Labour Market Service
II. Lanteghi work ability assessment and training
VALUE SHAPING IN SOCIETY I.
“We share our day” (Közös a napunk) complex approach shaping programme for kindergartens
II. “Home Class” (Osztályfőnöki óra): a complex programme for schools III. Hand in Hand public opinion shaping truck IV. “Sports Experience Day” and other sensitisation events
THE STRATEGY OF HAND IN HAND FOUNDATION FOR THE PERIOD 2017-2020 CURRENT SITUATION The current political and economic environment seems to be stable and the conditions until 2020 will probably be similar to the recent period. Sources of financing intended to support the functioning of NGO-s specifically are not expected to change in the near future. EU programmes are available in the central region to a very limited extent only. The former system of financing of organisations providing open labour market services has been abolished and the structure of supports is changing. Non-governmental service providers must be accredited to be able to perform any activity. The development of services supporting families, including the families raising children with disabilities, is lagging behind the support of those living in institutions. The scope of financing and of the available services is narrowing in every field. However, the role of Hand in Hand Foundation remains unchanged in this environment as well. Our operation in the areas determined in the Charter of the Foundation or the three areas specified in former strategies (Social Acceptance, Appropriate Services and Workplace) cannot be questioned.
OUR GOALS ON THE LEVEL OF THE ORGANISATION Comprehensive professional objectives I.
We will investigate the framework for establishing a support and assistance centre to strengthen the resources of families and establish such a centre. In addition to the direct provision of services, it will also function as a methodological centre.
II. We will create a uniform client management system so that those contacting us for help can be informed and avail themselves of all of our relevant services. III. We will share our activities with our partners on an international level as well. We will be the coordinator of at least one international project. IV. We will involve the persons concerned to a larger extent according to the principle of "user involvement". A. We will establish the practice of involving those concerned and integrate it with our daily functioning.
Objectives related to internal operation I.
As for the means of communication, the Foundation continues strengthening its presence on online communication platforms with the help of celebrities.
II. It will improve its internal efficiency, develop its management structure and involve volunteers, interns and PhD students to solve problems related to lack of capacities. III. Besides general administrative tasks, we will more and more involve volunteers (who should be competent, committed and available professionals) into tasks related to the expert fields as well. IV. We will hold internal trainings regularly and develop our capacities and organisational resources as may be needed.
Objectives related to financing I.
We would like to change the composition of our sources of finance. We wish to increase the ratio of revenues generated by ourselves, by social enterprises and the donations of private persons and companies within the structure of our revenues.
II. We will make use of international opportunities more intensively, including EU projects and international private donations. III. We will develop our donation organisation and fund raising activities. We will continue deepening our relationship with our current sponsors, address local governments more actively, map EU programmes more effectively and look out for new market opportunities. IV. We will synchronize the communication of the campaign concerning the offering of 1% of the personal income tax and other campaigns, as well as of sensitisation programmes.
SPECIALTY-RELATED STRATEGIES – APPROPRIATE SERVICES We will contribute to achieving our goal that children with disabilities be cared for in a family-like environment primarily rather than being placed in a child protection or social boarding institute by initiating and running experimental model projects. We will maintain our current determining role in programmes aimed at the replacement of institutional living. We will continue playing a leading role in service development and strengthen our activity in the field of child protection, too.
OUR SPECIALTY LEVEL GOALS I.
We will investigate the conditions of establishing a centre specialized at the adoption of children with disabilities and establish such a centre if the necessary conditions are fulfilled.
II. We will continue playing a professional role in the institutional living replacement programme planned for the period of 2014-2020. III. We will continue the FECSKE model experimental programme and strive at achieving that FECSKE service would become a service defined by the law. IV. We will develop and enhance our trainings so that the members of the profession would be able to follow the new structure created by replacement and other professional processes and to react to the challenges it may present. A. We will enable on-line application for our trainings and develop the field of training development. We will continue with the existing online developments and integrate them with potential projects. V. We will build a knowledge bank from our existing professional materials and analyse the most recent research findings regularly in the interest of capacity development. VI. We will support and assist non-governmental service providers and develop the related cooperation protocols. A. We will review the processes of cooperation with CÉHálózat, document management and finances.
SPECIALTY-RELATED STRATEGIES - WORKPLACE We would like to operate with capacities similar to our current capacities as a minimum in 3 years’ time and we are trying to achieve some growth as well by rationalising our resources. We will perform our sensitisation work through experiential experts related to us, address employers even more intensively and develop joint projects in the future.
OUR SPECIALTY LEVEL GOALS I.
We will maintain the achievements of our previous operation and involve at least 70 clients living with disabilities in a year with 3 consultants and 1 mentor, find employment for at least 35-40 clients at the open labour market and achieve that 80% of them would continue being employed for no less than 6 months.
II. We will continue our activity of interest assertion to stabilize the financing of the service and inform decision-makers continuously of our achievements. III. The annual revenues generated by our employment agency activity and derived from employers' orders will amount to HUF 4 million. We will evaluate our revenues and achievements every two months. IV. We will improve the quality of our service. V. We will cooperate with our experimental experts more consciously and offer additional services to them.
SPECIALTY-RELATED STRATEGIES – SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE We would like the attitude of the society towards people with disabilities to change positively, therefore we will increase our focus on children, organise more programmes for them and introduce them to more and more common experience. In the future, we are planning to involve in our campaigns a continuously growing number of celebrities representing the social mission of Hand in Hand Foundation authentically and participating in our approach shaping work actively. We would like to increase awareness of all of our programmes across the society and that more and more experimental experts and volunteers would participate in our work.
OUR SPECIALTY LEVEL GOALS I.
We will reinforce the social acceptance of people with disabilities by means of complex experience programmes.
A. We would like to bring the kindergarten sensitisation programme titled "We share our day" (Közös a napunk) to 4 additional districts of Budapest. We will continue lobbying for other districts of the capital city to initiate and maintain a complex sensitisation programme following the example of district 9. B. Our approach shaping truck will travel to 5-10 venues every year. C. We will organize a “Sports Experience Day” every year. D. We will elaborate a complex series of programmes by combining the “Home class”, “We share our day”, the “Sports Experience Day” and the “Hand in Hand truck” with an especially strong professional content, where the individual elements mutually strengthening each other would promote the acceptance of people with disabilities in society and increase awareness of the brand of Hand in Hand Foundation. E. We will initiate that a Disability Thematic Week would be introduced similarly to digital thematic week. II. We will establish a network of experimental experts and involve them in our operation in a conscious and planned manner. A. We will select experimental experts and train them for running the “Hand in Hand truck” programme. III. We will continue with the sensitisation of judges based on the training material and method elaborated in the AJUPID project. IV. We will share the know-how of the complex public opinion shaping programme on an international level. A. We will introduce the frame and idea of the complex programme to the project development workshop of EASPD and launch a common project development.
