The handbook was written in collaboration with social care professionals and focuses on the harmful social norms which exist in some especially disadvantaged Roma families. Among the harmful social norms are the reproduction of patriarchal socialization patterns on children; early marriage of girls and violence against women. The topics were neglected among social welfare workers, labelling them as a "Roma culture". Roma families were culturalised and ethnised. The handbook addresses the necessity that the welfare professionals intervene and prevent the continuity of the harmful social norms in order to decrease the reproduction of transgenerational poverty, illiteracy among women and their long-term marginalization. The book has been available in open access since 2020 at http://www.dlib.com/details/URN:NBN:SI:doc-X9LIMKMB. The ZRC ZAZU online newspaper invited the first author of the textbook to write a contribution for the on-line journal Alternator (April 9, 2020) during the week of the International Romani Day (https://www.alternator.science/sl/daljse/skodljive-druzbene-posledice-mladoletnih-porok-med-romi-v-sloveniji/).
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 301967872Jana Mali was the guest editor of the aplied-science special thematic issue of the Croatioan Journal for Social Politics on recent findings in social gerontology. She collected contributions that are relevant for the decision-makers in the field of social policy and elders. The focus of the special issue is related to the findings from Slovenia and Croatia; the contemporary international literature is taken into account, as well. It offers a comparative view on some fundamental questions related to social gerontology in Slovenia and Croatia and shows that social policy related to elders have a common roots and tradition which is reflected in current area of gerontology. The special issue suggests that there are some common grounds between the two counties from where the long-term care for the elders could be mutually developed. Despite the lack of completed legislation on long-term care in both countries, good practice can be found, as well as researches and discussions about the visions of the long-term care in the near future.
C.03 Guest-associated editor
COBISS.SI-ID: 16722269The achievement relates to a lecture at an important European conference Managing mental health system complexity (ENMESH - The European Network for Mental Health Service Evaluation, Lisbon, 6.-8.6.2019) where Mojca Urek was invited keynote speaker. The majority of EU countries nowadays discuss the possibilities of increasing the quality of community services; nevertheless, some EU countries still discuss for a thirty years old-topic around basic question concerning the closure of large, asylum-type institutions. Slovenia is a country with a long history of deinstitutionalisation and development of the community forms of care, but without a real systematic change. However, the challenges of organizing community care need to go beyond the sole question of moving people out of institutions. Through the shift of care into community, people have not automatically gained more contractual power in their lives and the participatory power in social services. On the contrary, in political and organisational processes of re-organising long-term care, their voice got lost and their impact is predominantly tokenistic. The existing research conducted by Urek shows a gap between the declarative participation policy, stemming from ratified conventions and lived experiences of limited participation. At the same time it shows innovative participatory and advocacy practices and their potentials to transform social services and to impact the deinstitutionalisation process.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 5148773Darja Zaviršek was the program director of the 7th National Congress of Social Work with international participation entitled Humanism and Ethics in Social Work (Moravske toplice, October 16, 17 and 18, 2019). It was attended by more than 200 professionals who teach and practice in social work. More than 10 people came from abroad, including the President of the European Association of Social Workers; Secretary of the International Association of Schools of Social Work and former Director of the CSWE Council on Social Work Education in the United States. In close cooperation with the Association of Social Workers of Slovenia, the Social Chamber and the Institute for Social Welfare, the Congress drew attention to the pressing topics of social work. These included the importance of developing green social work; increasing social inequalities; criminalization of migration; the development of Slovenian welfare system between birocracy and professionalization; ethical dilemmas in social work. Her opening address at the Congress in included in the Book of abstracts: ZAVIRŠEK, Darja. Uvodni nagovor. V: BEZJAK, Sonja (ur.), et al. Humanizem in etika v socialnem delu : zbornik povzetkov, 7. kongres socialnega dela, 16., 17. in 18. oktober 2019, Moravske Toplice. V Ljubljani: Fakulteta za socialno delo Univerze. 2019, str. 5-6. [COBISS.SI-ID 5199461] Zbornik povzetkov: BEZJAK, Sonja (urednik), PETROVIĆ JESENOVEC, Borut (urednik), ZAVIRŠEK, Darja (urednik, avtor dodatnega besedila), ZORN, Jelka (urednik), 7. kongres socialnega dela, 16., 17. in 18. oktober 2019, Moravske Toplice. Humanizem in etika v socialnem delu : zbornik povzetkov. V Ljubljani: Fakulteta za socialno delo Univerze, 2019. 158 str., sl. avtorjev. ISBN 978-961-6569-69-9. [COBISS.SI-ID 97261313]
B.02 Presiding over the programming board of a conference