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Medical and Educational Campus
For children struggling with serious illnesses and disabilities, there is a need for a place where they can be given a chance at a normal life, surrounded by love, treated with respect, and enjoy quality medical services.
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ASSA Campus
The most innovative Medical and Educational Campus, built by the ASSA Foundation, will be the universe where these little ones will regain their right to be children.
What will this universe look like?
The campus, built about 30 km from Bucharest, on an area of 15,364 sq m, will include:
- A camp with a capacity of 60 accommodation places and facilities for children with disabilities
- A diagnostic and treatment clinic for children with neuro-psycho-motor disorders
- Multifunctional rooms
- 1 pediatric primary care office
- 1 physiotherapy and kinesitherapy office
- 1 educational center for support, vocational guidance and social integration for seriously ill children
- Spaces for activities
What will be the annual social impact?
5.760
children (of which at least 500 with disabilities) accommodated in the camp, annually.
35.000
hours of educational and recreational activities.
100
of children per day received in the recovery base.
120
of children treated monthly at the hospital built on the ASSA Campus.
Implementation
What are the phases of realization of this project?
The construction of the ASA Campus will be carried out in two phases, depending on the availability of the necessary funds.
First phase
It consists of the construction of the CAMP, which will have a total built area of 4,175 sq m, 60 children’s accommodation places, 20 companion places, consisting of 4 buildings, an outdoor swimming pool, parks with landscaped green spaces, outdoor playgrounds for children, pedestrian and car access roads, parking lots, perimeter fences, etc.
Second phase
It consists of the establishment of the Medical Clinic for the diagnosis and treatment of children with neuro-psycho-motor diseases, which will have a built area of approx. 3,500 sq m, with a number of 60 beds, being focused on the treatment and recovery of minor children, recovery in post-traumatic conditions, osteoarticular and musculoskeletal disorders, in neuromotor disorders (cerebral palsy, tetraparesis, hemiparesis, monoparesis, paraparesis, coordination disorders, post-traumatic – cranio-cerebral and spinal disorders, peripheral nerve lesions, myopathies and neuromuscular diseases – muscular dystrophies).
The Clinic will have a single building that will include, in addition to the inpatient ward, a multidisciplinary treatment base, sized and equipped according to the latest Western standards.
Various medical services will be offered to minor patients and outpatients through the examination and evaluation offices of the Clinic.
What are our approaches?
The social approach
We carry out social surveys in advance to identify:
Medical and social needs, material support needs, moral support needs, areas with high risk of vulnerability, implemented together with local authorities with responsibilities in the social sphere.
We build and implement the reintegration plan for vulnerable children:
- we adapt campus facilities to the needs of vulnerable children
- we coordinate with family / legal guardians / doctors / authorities, in the children’s reintegration program
We apply the social program, adapted to the needs of vulnerable children, on campus:
- personal development courses
- therapeutic reintegration activities
- discussion circles with social specialists
- play therapies appropriate to the group’s age, with the aim of developing children’s social interaction
- disconnection and reconnection activities,
- group membership
- skill discovery and development workshops
The therapeutic approach
Play therapy activities
Role-playing games, attention games, games for developing the senses, games to consolidate physical skills, coordination games, socialization games, art workshops, etc.
Group therapy
It is suitable for children who suffer from social problems (e.g. shyness, feelings of inferiority, etc.) and has the following benefits: it develops a sense of belonging to the group, discovers in each child a sense of uniqueness, develops the free expression of ideas and encourages socialization.
Individual therapy
One-on-one work encourages the child with social difficulties to express themselves freely. It is important to create a space where each child feels safe and to use communication tools appropriate to the child’s age, social and psychological background.
Play therapy
The concept will cover all other types of therapy
Games/toys will become communication tools for therapists when working with children
It will help children express their emotions or fears more easily and overcome emotional blockages more easily.
It is scientifically proven that play is a suitable framework for applying other types of therapies, becoming a strong bridge between the child and the therapist.
Family therapy
Child-family or multi-family therapeutic groups are created and workshops are organized in which the parents of the beneficiary children are involved.
Excursions are organized in the campus area, but also outside it, dedicated to the family
Nutrition courses are held dedicated to families
Sports competitions are organized in which teams are made up of families
This type of therapy will help integrate the vulnerable child into his own family, but also adapt the entire family to social challenges outside it.
An illness or shortcomings affect not only the child, but also the entire family and its social environment. Not infrequently, the child with serious conditions loses developmental stages, breaks away from the community, has learning and adaptation difficulties and experiences a series of problems.
Play therapy can fill these gaps, completing and rebuilding them, becoming the way through which the child can regain his childhood.