Jarabee Jeugdzorg Twente (NL)

Jarabee Youth Care Twente (450 employees) is an organisation for support and service to children, youngsters and their parents. Jarabee provides several services: from ambulatory help to full day care. Aim is to realize that children, youngsters and their parents can participate independently and with self confidence in society.

Jarabee has experiences with the VIT method for family support. Jarabee is looking for more ICT application in the own, learning organisation. By linking ICT to a concrete method like VIT it will have an added value because it offers the opportunity to support and supervise families with digital video tools at a distance.

In addition, Jarabee is interested to participate in an international VIT network and is willing to have a leading role in creating this. Intercultural interaction and communication  experiences are usefull for Jarabee, also because of the fact that Jarabee has to work with target groups from other cultures in an increasing way. Jarabee will provide knowledge and experience about the professional practice in the Netherlands to the partnership.

Jarabee collaborates with trainer Ab Molewijk from VIT training center Orbis Pictus. Orbis Pictus was established in 1993. Ab Molewijk will work under name of Jarabee and will have an important role in the project as a trainer, supervisor and partly project coordinator, especially related to the training activities. Ab Molewijk has a lot of experiences in international projects. He successfully introduced VIT (with MATRA support form the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs) in the Czech Republic (1993 - 1997), Poland (1997 - 2000) and Hungary (1999 - 2002). At the moment in all these countries there are independently operating VIT centers, of which the Hungarian and the Czech organisations will participate as partners in this project. As a supervisor Ab Molewijk is involved in the VIT introduction in Ukraine and Slovakia.

Beside the planned training activities Ab Molewijk will have an important task to mobilise the international network in order to stimulate the use of the website and to participate in the planned conferences.

Beside the international and very relevant experiences of Ab Molewijk, Jarabee has international experiences as well. Jarabee participated in a joint project with Buna Ziua (RO, also project partner) and the regional direction of child protection in Vaslui (RO). Aim of this project (2002 -2004) was to exchange knowledge regarding management skills and youth care methods. The VIT experiment in Barlad (Buna Ziua, Jarabee, Orbis Pictus) was a result of this collaboration and the precursor of this project.

Jarabee's administrative organisation is capable and has qualified people (including financially) to run the project administration.

Contact us

Jarabee Jeugdzorg in Twente
59 W. ten Catestraat 59
7550 AE Hengelo
The Netherlands
tel.: 0031 742561912
fax: 0031 742561910
www.jarabee.nl
contact person: Gitta Griffioen
e-mail: ggriffioen@jarabee.nl