📝 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
SPECIAL EDUCATION SCHOOL "EL ALBA"
The volunteer´s tasks will be carried out in three areas:
A) Supporting activities promoting personal autonomy (spatial structuring activities, comunicattion activities, teaching and learning activities.)Support in activities of a social integration nature, carried out from the centre.
B) Supporting activities carried out in different rooms(sports activities, relaxation activities, break time activities and teaching and learning activities)
C) Supporting activities carried out in the canteen and during the rest period and promoting personal autonomy activities
Also support in summer camps and/or beach vacations
🏠 Accommodation on site
- Holidays: 24 working days for 12 month projects.One part of the holidays will be taken in Christmas, Easter and/or August, 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.
🎒 Leisure activities
Autismo Burgos guarantees the assistance of the volunteer to the cycle of Formation and Evaluation of the USC 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: - The volunteer can start the activity later than the start date
- Volunteer from either sex can take part.
- A2 Spanish level is recommended (but not necessary) to make the integration to the project easier.
- Commitment to assist to any training courses offered
- To keep all information confidential
Selection will be done through contact via telephone/Skype and e-mail so that the responsible for the project can 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.