📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Asociación de Padres de Personas con Autismo is a non-profit organisation founded in Burgos (Spain). Burgos is the capital of the province with the same name in the Autonomous Community of Castilla y León.
The most importan objetive in Autismo Burgos is to promote welfare and quality of life of people with autism and their families. The Asociación de Padres de Personas con Autismo de Burgos manage several Centres in the city: Viviendas "Casa del Cerezo, ” El Olivo” y "El Rosal", Colegio Específico "El Alba" y Centro de Día (for older than 18).The three centres work in coordination: they do diagnosis, ambulant support, support to families, leisure and sport.
Autismo Burgos has the capacity to accommodate 4 volunteers, a volunteer for each center, with a duration of between 6 and 12 months..The basis of this project is to encourage volunteer participation in activities and programs focusing on the main objective of Autismo Burgos, "To promote and improve the quality of life of people with this disorder and their families." Among the activities carried standout standardization activities, integration, learning the habits of personal autonomy and social, occupational, educational,leisure and sport's young people are actively involved in this project the same, giving us their support, innovating, promoting and encouraging the exchange and cultural enrichment.
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteer’s tasks in Flat Service will be carried out in three areas:
- Support in activities carried out in the canteen and during the rest period (stidy up, lunch and afteernoon nap)
- Support in daily routine skills and self-care tasks (preparing a snack, right attitudes on the table, collecting and storing clothes, cleaning the house…)
- Support with personal autonomy and activities (sightseeing, museums, cinemas, shopping, swimming pool, fitness…)
- Support with personal autonomy and personal hygiene tasks (showers, put on pijams, lay out clothes the next day, clean teeth, have dinner, watch TV, go to bed)
-Support in summer camps and/or beach vacations (including weekends)
🏠 Accommodation on site
- Holidays: 24 working days for 12 month projects. One part of the holidays will be taken in Christmas or Easter due to a reduction of activities in this dates.
- Working Hours and Days off: 6 hours per day, 5 days a week, 2 consecutive days off per week and 2 working days of holiday per month.
- The volunteer will live in a flat with all basic amenities covered and will receive a a monthly allowance for food, local transport and pocket money.
Linguistic training at the Official School of Languages or at the University. Online f the current health situation (Covid) doesn`t allow it
🎒 Leisure activities
Autismo Burgos guarantees the assistance of the volunteer to the cycle of Formation and Evaluation of the SVE as well as to the linguistics and cultural formation, assumes the responsibility for increasing the level of awareness concerning risk evaluation, risk prevention and a high level of pastoral care within the programme..
Volunteers will always be supervised and will be working with a professional member of staff of the association.
Specific training will be continuous and given by the host organization. Courses will be organized in the Autismo Burgos or by other Burgos Organizations
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: - Volunteer from either sex can take part.
- A2 Spanish level is recommended (but not necessary) to make the integration to the project easier.
-Volunteers from the Champagne-Ardenne region will have preference although it is not a prerequisite
- Commitment to assist to any training courses offered
- Rrespect the aims of the association and follow its criteria.
- To keep all information confidential
- The responsible for the project will choose the person who best suits the specific haracteristics of project.
Deadline: No application deadline
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.