Workshop on the organization of volunteer work

Course: Social Work

Structural unit: Faculty of Psychology

Title
Workshop on the organization of volunteer work
Code
ОК.14
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
2 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
LO 2. To communicate fluently orally and in writing state and foreign languages on professional issues. LO 3. To identify, formulate and solve problems in the field of social work, to integrate theoretical knowledge and practical experience. LO 6. To develop long-term and current plans, programs of activities, to make effective decisions in difficult situations promptly. LO 16. To apply management methods to organize their own professional activities and to manage the activities of social workers, volunteers and staff. LO 19. To identify strengths and to involve the client’s personal resources, resources of social groups and communities to solve their problems and get out of difficult life circumstances.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
To know: - Theoretical foundations of volunteer work; - Basic forms and technologies of social work; - Classification of client groups of social work; To be able: - to establish contact with others; - to communicate with representatives of different social groups; - to plan and forecast their own achievements; - to work in a team.
Course content
The discipline is aimed to attract students to professional activities in social work. In the process of learning, they participate in charitable events and are involved in various forms of volunteering. Volunteering allows students to take their first steps in the profession, try their hand at working with different categories of clients and in different types of volunteering. By participating in various forms of assistance, students learn the main types of requests that can be covered by non-professional social work. At the end of the course, students independently develop a project of a charity event aimed at solving a problem or request of the client category and implement it on a voluntary basis.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Balakhtar V. Psykholohiia osobystosti fakhivtsia z sotsialnoi roboty. Kyiv : Talkom. 2018. 386 s. [in Ukarainian]. 2. Leonova V. I. Volonterskyi rukh v Ukraini : metodychni rekomendatsii. Odesa : Vydavets Bukaiev Vadym Viktorovych. 2019. 56 s. [in Ukrainian]. 3. Menedzhment volonterskykh prohram: posibnyk dlia pidhotovky menedzheriv volonterskykh prohram / Za zah. red. T.I. Syla, T.L. Liakh; avt..kol.: T. Zhuravel, T. Liakh, K. Pukha ta in.. Kyiv : OBNOVA-KOMPANI. 2020. 174 s. [in Ukrainian]. 4. Potentsial volonterstva ta liderstva u zdiisnenni profilaktyky VIL ta ryzykovanoi povedinky na bazi profesiino-tekhnichnykh navchalnykh zakladiv : navch.-metod. posibnyk // Zhuravel T.V., Liakh T.L., Spirina T.P. ta in.; za red. T.V. Zhuravel, T.L. Liakh. Kyiv : FOP Buria O.D. 2014. 224 s. [in Ukrainian]. 5. Shkola volonteriv: Navchalnyi posibnyk/ Za zah.red. H.S.Skytovoi [Avtorskyi kolektyv: Bryk Ya. and others] Kyiv. 2016. 166 s. [in Ukrainian].
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Practical classes, independent work, group discussion, group work
Assessment methods and criteria
Essay writing and feedback on the proposed materials, participation in group discussions, project development and implementation of a charity event, mastering practical skills Assessment during the semester: writing critical essays and written works - up to 5 points, participation in group discussion - up to 7 points, preparation of a charity project - up to 40 points. Based on the results of the work during the semester, the student receives a final grade on a 100-point system, which is calculated as the sum of grades for the semester and grades for the final task: 0-59 - not credited 60-100 - credited
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Nadiia Vitaliivna Butenko
Department of Social Work
Faculty of Psychology
Antonina Mykhailivna Levochkina
Department of Social Work
Faculty of Psychology

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Social Work
Faculty of Psychology
Department of Social Work
Faculty of Psychology