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Boarding system, foster families, adoption, a brief description of the data:. The reform of the system of institutional care and upbringing of children started in Ukraine in the reform of deinstitutionalization - DI.
The deinstitutionalization reform focused on supporting the family to prevent hardships or conditions that would force parents to send their children to boarding school. The essence of the DI reform is creating such conditions and services for families and children in the communities that are necessary and sufficient for the child to be raised in a family. The main goal of the DI reform in Ukraine is to change the system of institutional care and upbringing of children to a system that provides care and upbringing of the child in a family or family-type environment.
He lives with her and her mother in her house in a rural village. She recognised that Ivanenko didn't belong in care and contacted Tatyana Makarava, a wealthy businesswoman who had been fighting the cause of Ukraine's "incapacitated" for over a decade.
Makarava had developed a reputation among orphans as someone who would listen and try to help and her mobile phone number had been passed around residents of various different institutes. It believes many of these social orphans are locked up in an institutional system that doesn't have the resources or the will to assess them properly.
It's the ultimate Catch Subject to neglect at the hands of an under-resourced and under-staffed state care system, many of these young people receive little or no education. They were damned as unteachable despite many showing no signs that they were disabled. Ivanenko didn't realise he was classed as disabled until he left the home and saw paperwork from his file.
They did that without me," he says. Over the past year, he has been learning to read with the help of Makarava's year-old granddaughter. He has learned to read the bible as well as an encyclopaedia of etiquette that Makarava gave to him.
Lyonya Honchar, who is in his mids, is one of Ivanenko's fellow "incapacitated", still stuck in the old people's home. He was put into care by his father aged six after his mother died. Honchar was moved to the geriatric home when he was 16 but his experience before that was even more harrowing.
He was a resident at the Novosavitski psychiatric institution, a residential home that came under investigation in after a resident was beaten to death.
We weren't allowed visitors and no-one could come to see us. They locked us in the punishment cell and they beat us when we ran away. He says before lunch each day he was injected with haloperidol and aminazine, powerful anti-psychotic drugs. Aminazine made you sleep for two days.
Dennis Aleksandrovish, who was abandoned as a child when he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, lived at the same institution. With Makarava's help, he has been transferred to the care of an independent guardian and lives autonomously. But he believes the people who run these homes have a financial interest in keeping young people there past the age of
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