Socialisation Home for children and adolescents in Soria

The Socialisation Home for children and adolescents in Soria provides residential care for 8 minors in the protection system through a concerted action agreement formalised with the Gerencia de Servicios Sociales de Castilla y León. Specifically, it is a centre for the immediate or emergency care of minors in situations of family crisis or serious risk of lack of protection. 

This residential care service for minors subject to protection measures or actions aims to guarantee comprehensive, continuous care adapted to the needs of minors in situations of lack of protection, with a normalised lifestyle, promoting their family integration and/or their independent living, and fostering the development of their abilities. 

Among others, the Centre offers the following general services and benefits: 

1. Accommodation and coexistence. 
2. Meals. 
3. Support in the school setting. 
4. Psycho-pedagogical and social care. 
5. Family care and guidance. 
6. Occupational, training, personal development, work-related and other activities. 
7. Leisure and free-time activities. 
8. Relations with the surrounding environment… 

 The methodological principles underpinning the services and benefits listed above are as follows: 

1. Comprehensive care: This requires the intervention carried out with the minors to cover the entire period of their life at the centre and to take into account all the dimensions that make up their life. 
2. Pedagogy of everyday life: Daily life at the centre is an important intervention tool and the fundamental space for educational action. It means turning the moments and situations of everyday life into educational experiences that replace family education. 
3. Adult attachment figure or key educator: This is an element that individualises the educational intervention, guiding and empowering the child or adolescent as they mature. They are the minor’s attachment figure for as long as the minor stays at the centre.
4. Emotional and motivational support: Situations are fostered through which new, more adaptive strategies can be developed for regulating emotions and controlling behaviour, factors that are relevant in acquiring self-concept, self-esteem and the appropriate expression of feelings.  
5. Methodological diversity: The socio-educational intervention methods applied take into account the principle of individualisation and, therefore, the particular characteristics of each minor. 

In addition to the above principles, our methodology is based on the following methodological principles:  

• Activity: children and adolescents are active agents in building their own personal development, fostering meaningful learning experiences and establishing cognitive networks between their prior knowledge and experiences and the new ones to be learned. 

• Communication: in care there is continuous interaction between the children and adolescents and the educational team, so that the team members are accessible and emotionally close, devoting time to their relationship with each child and fostering playful, positive and trustworthy interactions. 
• Subsidiarity: the Home uses public resources in the areas of health and mental health, education, sociocultural activities, employment promotion and professional intervention, as well as any other area that affects the children’s well-being. In addition, whenever necessary to fulfil care obligations, private resources are used. 

 The professional team is made up of different professional profiles in addition to the Coordinator, namely: social educators, social worker, educational assistants and general services assistant.