CAIF, Children’s Club and Youth Center in the same line of work
The Salesian Social Work Picapiedras is closing a year that marked exponential growth not only from the building aspect but also in terms of adaptation to the requirements of the community for better care of children and young people.
The first work has already begun on the land adjacent to the CAIF Center, where in the future they will try to install a space where Don Bosco Workshops courses will be taught.
“We reached the end of the year with a very positive balance that in turn forces us to continue thinking and projecting everything that has been put into practice. We know that all the changes that we proposed at the beginning of the year are not linearly ascending, but rather spiral-shaped. Precisely those apparent setbacks that are experienced are taken as part of the learning to continue strengthening the Work and the bond with the community.” held the Professor Martín Álvarez.
“We are closing the work with the different coordinators, having clear guidelines for next year. We evaluate what things the year left us with, what things reality is asking of us and what things reality is no longer asking of us.” he pointed out.
“We must detach ourselves from everything that reality tells us no longer fits, whether from the proposals, whether from the link with the community, or from paying much more attention to the issue of working as a system together with other institutions. There is a different reality and asks that Flintstones be in the community in a different way” said the Director of the Salesian Social Work.
We work on optimizing economic and human resources to spend them on things that society no longer demands. “Sometimes we tend to have a somewhat nostalgic vision of how things were done before” accurate. “What we can never lose are our roots. It is one of the concerns that we have as Director together with all our colleagues. “Institutions are becoming bureaucratized and in this context we have to look for the antidote so as not to lose the humanization of institutions.” he exhorted. “If we focus too much on the bureaucratic, on the organizational, we lose the charisma that has to do with bonding, with the arrival of the companions, with the arrival of the gurises and the Don Bosco-like way of being, knowing that We must comply with a bureaucratic part because we have agreements with INAU and because we think it is positive to give transparency to the management, but without losing the other and turning Picapiedras into a bureaucratized institution. “We have to know how to play that game, achieve balance” he pointed out.
“Sometimes because we are very organized, we lose the relationship, the hand-to-hand relationship, the bond with the people, fundamental things. That is why an organized institution, which complies with all the regulations but does not lose the human aspect, the connection, which is a distinguishing feature of Flintstones.” said Martin Alvarez.
CAIF, CHILDREN’S CLUB AND YOUTH CENTER
“When the Work started and there were no agreements, this was all together with a much more visible charisma given by the push of every beginning” he remembered. “When it begins to be institutionalized, when the agreements appear that are very good because they give sustainability to the Early Childhood and Adolescence policies, a certain separation begins to be generated that cuts off the work processes” express.
“We were seeing that there was a common horizon but the colleagues from the Youth Center, for example, never met those from the CAIF or those from the Children’s Club. The construction of transversal teams, which is in process, leads us to see the Work as a whole with 300 children and young people” stood out. “At the CAIF we work to leave something for the gurí when he goes to the Children’s Club and in the Children’s Club to strengthen the expenses for when he goes to the Youth Center” he explained.
The Director of Flintstones insisted that the great challenge is the attention after the young people leave the Youth Center. “We are with the Young Project. We had put together a working group to address mental health, Ni Silencio Ni Tabú, which although we were not selected, we met with very committed people who next year want to be part of it voluntarily to put the energy into making this project come to fruition. ” Indian.
BUILDING EXPANSION
The first earthworks have already begun on the land bordering the CAIF Center. “For that place, the dream is the Don Bosco Workshops, but perhaps we can start working together with UTU by bringing some courses here. We can have a technical school nearby, but the gurises participate much more if we have courses here. “We want to start with small things to then reach the big dream” Professor Martín Álvarez concluded by saying.
