The Józef Wieczorkowski Institute

The Józef Wieczorkowski Institute
96-122 Puszcza
Marianska, Studzieniec
Skierniewice
POLAND
Phone 0048 468318624
Fax 0048 468318170
Contact Andrzej Zakrzewski


AIMS

The main aim with the institute is the preparing of young offenders for normal life. We help them by providning them with elementary education, work training and assistance on leaving care and returning to the community.

Methodology

Some boys arrive at the institute without having finished their elementary education and they are able to do so as residents. Work training is considered important and the boys are trained as carpenters, locksmiths or farmers. Each boy is given an induvidual education and training programme according to his needs and capabilities.

Sports end outings are organised for their free time and boys are allowed regular permits to visit their families and are given pocket money.

Population/Target Gruop

About 50 boys aged 15 to 21 live at the institute in three separate buildings, and form-master is with each group at all times.

Special Needs

On first arrival, boys are asked about their needs and the institute provides what clothing, shoes and sports equipment it can afford. The main problem arises on their leaving the institute as accomodation and work are both difficult to find and many of the boys are from criminal families to which they cannot return to live with permanently. The institute helps as much as it can with leavning care.

Links with other organisations

* Ministry of Justice
* Ministry of Board of Education
* The Provincial Courts for the affairs of families and minors.
* Social Welfare