Implementation of the alternative form of social service “foster home or senior citizens” in Irkutsk Region: empirical study of the problem

The object of this research is the senior citizens, who are the objects of close attention of the corresponding government bodies, institutions of social and medical care, nonprofit organizations, and social entrepreneurs. It is revealed that despite joint efforts of the government and society aimed at maintaining the quality of their lives, senior citizens, for various reasons, often find themselves lonely, deprived of the care of their families. Therefore, the subject of this research is the alternative form of social service for senior citizens – foster home. The article examines the social, economic, psychological, and sociological aspects of implementation of such service. Special attention is given to the concept of foster home for senior citizens, as a form of organization of life, which implies sharing living space and household of citizens who concluded a foster home agreement. The article explores such aspects as the procedure for creating foster families, basic statistical data, regional peculiarities, social and economic effectiveness. The studied indicators reveal the factors that impede the creation of more foster homes. The authors’ special contribution lies in systematization of the key indicators of social effectiveness of foster homes: improvement of psychological state of senior citizens, mending family relationships, joint overcoming of different household problems, mutual respect and help, living in a home environment, and revival of the traditions of family and community care for older generation.

La Résilience chez des Adolescentes Victimes d’agressions Sexuelles Commises par des Femmes en Côte d’Ivoire

L’objectif de cette étude menée sur trois adolescentes en foyer d’accueil, est de comprendre le processus de résilience à travers des facteurs individuels, chez des victimes d’agressions sexuelles commises par des femmes, à Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire). L’Hypothèse postule que ces facteurs sont déterminants dans la reconstruction résiliente. La méthode clinique et l’étude de cas ont guidé le choix des instruments de collecte des données, à savoir : le CD-RISC de Connor et Davidson (2003) et l’Exercice de résilience de Strümpfer (2001). La théorie des facteurs de protection de Garmezy (1990) a permis d’interpréter les résultats par le biais de l’analyse qualitative du contenu des réponses. Ces résultats montrent que les facteurs individuels interviennent dans la construction résiliente. Ceux-ci identifient la compétence cognitive, la spiritualité et la confiance en soi comme facteurs de protection de la résilience chez les participantes à l’étude. The objective of the study on three adolescent girls in foster home, is to understand the process of resilience through individual factors, in victims of sexual assault committed by women, in Abidjan (Ivory Coast). The hypothesis postulates that these are determinants in resilient reconstruction. The clinical method and the case study guided the choice of data collection instruments, namely: the CD-RISC of Connor and Davidson (2003) and the Résilience Exercise of Strümpfer (2001). Garmezy’s protective factor theory allowed us to interpret the results through qualitative analysis of the content of responses. These results show that individual factors are involved in resilient construction. They identify cognitive competences, spirituality and self-confidence as protective factors for resilience in the study participants.

PENELITIAN TENTANG FORMATIO SPIRITUALITAS DAN KEPRIBADIAN DI RUMAH BINA KARYA ILLAHI MADIUN

Rumah Bina Karya Illahi is a house (a kind of dormitory) that accommodates first-level. Rumah Bina organizes a lot of coaching as a basis for students to take further education. Students are active subjects of development, while regulations are only a means of assisting to practice responsibility and life discipline. As development subjects, students must learn to self-regulate, therefore, the foster home also trains students to be responsible for themselves. This research was conducted at the Divine Works Bina House during 2019 s.d. 2020 to measure the four focus areas of coaching (personal maturity, spirituality, study life, and humanities) associated with community rules and events as a means of formation in the foster home so far. The research was conducted by distributing questionnaires to all residents of the Bina House in the period 2019 s.d. 2020. The results showed that most of the students understood the importance of rules in living together, spiritual life, and community life in joint formation. There are quite a number of students who experience formation at Rumah Bina. Rules in living together are needed to maintain orderly living together in the Bina House. Thankfully, the majority of respondents realized the importance of living together, the importance of spiritual events to foster their spirituality, and the need for community events to instill good habits. Orders, spiritual events, and community events are the foundation needed for joint formation.

In Bogdaj as in Paradise, in Bogdaj

Over the Book “Bogdaj” Bitola. [For the publisher Tomislav Karadžić; consultant Mirjana Glišović; technical arrangement Dušan Solujić Sole]. Vraćevšnica [— Gornji Milanovac: Grafoprint], 2019. 158 pp. The charitable activity of Bishop Nicholai Velimirovich is little known. Although his work and service from the time before the First World War until the end of his life was associated with various charitable activities, his care for the needy and his engagement in the field of charity mostly escaped the attention of researchers, who focused their research firstly on his national work, dealing with the charitable dimensions of Velimirovich’s activities arrogantly, more often only lightly or not at all. However, the charitable activity of Bishop Nicholai Velimirovich was one of his primary activities, expressed in different ways: through efforts to collect humanitarian aid during World War I, then through the establishment of various charitable funds and societies, in the interwar period through the establishment of the church charities, feeding houses for the poor, homes for children, homes for the elderly — in dioceses where he served as a bishop and administrator, or in monasteries in his vicinity, and in the period after World War II especially through care for displaced persons and refugees (among other things through work in international church organizations), care for surviving prisoners of war and detainees who could not return to their homes, and especially through care for poor believers in the new Yugoslavia — expressed through his constant care to deliver humanitarian aid from the Western world to the unwilling in the homeland. The mentioned Bishop Nicholai’s activities have not been sufficiently researched, and it would be very interesting if in the future they would be the subject of a more thorough study, i.e. if the charitable aspect of Bishop Nicholai’s actions and ministry would be clarified. In a small number of publications and studies in which certain attention is paid to the charitable activity of Bishop Nicholai, however, several articles stand out about the Children’s Foster Home of St. Nicholas “Bogdaj,” which operated under the direction of Nadežda — in monasticism Ana — Adžić in Bitola from 1935 to the beginning of World War II in the area, i.e. until the occupation in 1941. In addition to texts and materials from churchly periodicals, the first notable publication dedicated to “Bogdaj” through which the public had the opportunity to learn about the existence and activities of this charity was the diary of mother Ana Adžić, published among the articles for the biography of Bishop Nicholai in the 1st volume of the Collected Works of Nicholai Velimirovich, i.e. in the 2nd edition of the 1st volume, printed in 2013. An interesting publication about “Bogdaj,” published in 2019, is coming from the Vraćevšnica monastery. This is the edition of the notebook of mother Ana Adžić, hegumenia of the Vraćevšnica monastery, who, as sister Nada, was invited by Bishop Nicholai in Bitola in 1935. She took over the management of the newly established Children’s Foster Home of St. Nicholas — “Bogdaj.” Namely, Sister Nada managed this institution until 1941, when after the outbreak of World War II and after the Bulgarian occupation, she had to leave Bitola. She later continued her humanitarian work and mission in Kraljevo and Trstenik. The Vraćevšnica sisterhood copied this notebook in 1976, thus preserving this valuable testimony from oblivion.

Foster Caregivers’ Parenting Stress as a Moderator of Change in Coparenting Following Relationship Education

Foster caregivers provide care to some of our most vulnerable children and often experience challenges that can interfere with family functioning, including the interparental relationship. Recent efforts have been made to provide couple relationship education (CRE) to foster caregivers to support their interparental relationship and enhance the quality of the foster home. Guided by family systems theory and adult learning theory, and using an actor–partner interdependence model, the present quasi-experimental descriptive study -examined foster caregivers’ parenting stress at baseline as a moderator of change in perceptions of coparenting support from pre-program (baseline) to post-program (4–6 weeks following CRE) to determine if higher levels of stress prior to CRE inhibits positive changes in coparenting support. While both men and women experience positive change in their perceptions of coparenting support, higher levels of parenting stress moderated positive change for men.

331 Adverse Childhood Experience and Sleep Quality in Adulthood

Introduction Poor sleep quality, a risk factor for many negative health outcomes, may result from physical or emotional disturbance including chronic stress. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been linked with chronic stress, and may therefore be associated with poor sleep quality in adulthood. This study examines the longitudinal association between specific ACEs and the number of ACEs and sleep quality in adulthood. Methods Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we examined the association between ACEs and trouble falling asleep or staying asleep (rarely or never, sometimes, frequently) in waves 1 (age 12–18), 4 (age 24–32), and 5 (age 33–43). We examined ten ACEs (physical, sexual, or emotional abuse; neglect; parental death, incarceration, alcoholism, divorce or separation; foster home placement; poverty; and exposure to community violence) and the number of ACEs (0, 1, 2–3, 4+), using weighted logistic regression to calculate odds ratios and confidence intervals for each of the ACEs and ACE score and each of the outcomes after adjusting for relevant confounders. Results The analysis included 12,768 participants, 75.3% of whom experienced at least one ACE, including 14.7% who experienced 4 or more. Physical and emotional abuse were associated with frequent sleep complaints at waves 1, 4, and 5. Sexual abuse, neglect and community violence were associated with frequent complaints in two waves, while parental alcoholism, parental incarceration, and foster home placement were associated with frequent complaints in one wave. The number of ACEs experienced showed a dose-response association with frequent sleep complaints in wave 1 ([1 ACE: aOR=2.12 (1.16, 3.9), 2–3 ACEs: aOR=2.86 (1.70, 4.82), 4+ ACEs: aOR=4.17 (2.33, 7.48)], wave 4 [1 ACE: aOR=1.02 (0.77, 1.36); 2–3 ACEs: aOR= 1.66 (1.30, 2.10); 4+ ACEs: aOR=2.68 (1.99, 3.61) and in wave 5 [1 ACE: aOR=1.22 (0.93, 1.60)), 2–3 ACEs: aOR=1.42 (1.11, 1.81), 4+ ACEs: aOR=1.88 (1.40, 2.53)] Conclusion Certain adverse childhood experiences such as physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and neglect have a lasting impact on sleep quality in adulthood, highlighting the need to mitigate their impact to prevent negative health outcomes associated with poor sleep quality Support (if any):

Sibling Separation and Placement Instability for Children in Foster Care

U.S. foster care policy prioritizes keeping siblings together while in foster care. However, prior research on the effects of sibling placement is limited in sample, measures, and research design. In this study, we use data on 2,297 children from an urban county in years 2015–2019 and assess how sibling separation is associated with placement instability. We use multilevel parametric hazard modeling with adjustments for child, sibling, and placement characteristics. Findings indicate that children placed with at least one sibling are less likely to experience a placement move and are specifically less likely to experience a non-progress move (e.g., moves due to problems or negative experiences in their foster home). For larger sibling groups, sibling separation was not consistently associated with placement instability and there was little difference in placement instability for children placed with some versus all siblings. Results were robust to differences in measurement and model specification. Black or Hispanic race/ethnicity was also associated with increased risk of instability, and associations between sibling separation and instability were stronger for Black children, implying enhanced efforts to maintain sibling groups may be especially beneficial for Black children. Overall, findings provide support for the continuation and expansion of policies promoting sibling placement.