Karin Dom Starts the Project “Burnout of Professionals and Parents with Children with Disabilities”

The Burnout FREE ECI Project “Burnout of Professionals and Parents with Children with Disabilities: Prevention, common challenges and mutually empowering methodologies and practices in Early Child Intervention Services” was approved by the Greek National Agency under the ERASMUS+ Programme, KA220-ADU-Cooperation partnerships in adult education (No: 2021-1-EL01-KA220-ADU-000035230). The project was submitted by AMIMONI- Panhellenic Association of parents and friends of visually impaired people with additional handicaps.

The Burnout Free ECI consortium consists of 1O Partners & 1 Associated Partner from 8 different countries (Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Belgium and Albania). The project partners consist of a remarkable group of Professionals in ECI Organizations, Professors, professionals in the private sector who will bring their knowledge and expertise to the project in order to accomplish its aims.

In specific the following partners compose the consortium of this project:

• AMIMONI – Panhellenic Association of parents and friends of visually impaired people with additional handicaps /Coordinator/Greece
• PANEPISTIMIO THESSALIAS/Greece
• SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU/Croatia
• UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI/Romania
• EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES/Belgium
• MALI DOM – Zagreb dnevni centar za rehabilitaciju djece i mladezi/Croatia
• C.E.C.D. MIRA SINTRA – CENTRO DE EDUCACAO PARA O CIDADAO COM DEFICIENCIA CRL/Portugal
• KARIN DOM Foundation/ Bulgaria
• THEOFANIS ALEXANDRIDIS KAI SIA EE/ Greece
• KYPRIAKI ETAIREIA PISTOPOIISIS LIMITED/ Cyprus
• Down Syndrome Albania Foundation “DSA”/Associated Partner/Albania

The Burnout Free ECI project aims to craft a roadmap to better outcomes and lead to innovative, mutually empowering techniques and solutions to some of the most complex challenges parents with children with disabilities (CwD), professionals in the disability field and Organizations face, hindering the prospects of early childhood. Our experience from working with parents and Children with Disabilities (CwD) and recent studies have revealed the seriousness of burnout implications on parents with children with disabilities and Professionals in the disability field. The Burnout FREE ECI project addresses the tremendously serious issue of professionals’ and parents’ burnout on the family centered Early Child Intervention. It has also revealed the need to enhance the protective factors for family and ECI professionals and reduce the burnout risk factors which threaten to result in social isolation of professionals and in social exclusion of parents and children with disabilities.

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