MedVET (2017-2020)

MedVET-VET programme for medical practitioners supporting parents of babies with disabilities and complex needs
Website: https://medvet-project.eu/
2017-1-TR01-KA202-045932
Start date: 01 September 2017
Duration: 36 months
Partnership
- Marmara University, Physiotherapy Rehabilitation Department, Turkey
- Asociatia Unu Si Unu Romania
- National Association Of Professionals Working With People With Disabilities, Bulgaria
- Specialised Hospital For Active Treatment Of Obstetrics And Gynaecology „Selena“, Bulgaria
- Spastic Children’S Foundation Of Turkey, Turkey
- Gazi Universitesi, Turkey
- Phoenixkm Bvba, Belgium
Aims and objectives
- support social, emotional and professional well-being of the medical professionals;
- provide training that addresses holistic aspects of the medical professionals’ daily work which will help them to develop new strategies that they can apply to ensure the support of parents;
- prevent abandonment – signs and actions at level of the maternity ward;
- make the medical professionals aware of the essence of the term “child at risk”;
- enable the medical professionals to support parents to build up their new everyday life strategy in order to ensure a smooth physical, emotional and cognitive development of the newborn family member with a disability.
Target groups
Direct target:
- Medical doctors within obstetrics, Gynaecology, neonatology department within private and public hospitals
- Nurses and midwifes working in obstetrics, Gynaecology, neonatology departments
- Doulas (birth companion and post-birth supporter)
- Personal care givers of babies and young kids with disabilities and complex needs
Beneficiaries:
- Parents of babies with congenital disabilities (Down, CP, Sensory, Spina Bifida, etc.) and complex needs or at risk of acquiring a disability
- Pregnant women diagnosed with disability in the fetus and who would like to keep the baby
- Professionals working in the field of children abandonment
- Professionals engaged in early intervention services
Outcomes
- Holistic framework of socio-medical models for parents support
- ECVET based MedVET support training curriculum
- MedVET support Training program and Assessment mechanism
- Peer support portal
- Mobile learning app
- Interactive good practice guide