https://doi.org/10.31261/CHOWANNA.2006.27.10
The mission of the Dom Aniołów Stróżów (House of Guardian Angels) center in Katowice, whose activities we aim to present, is based on two key pillars: the work of experienced professionals assisted by young volunteers (streetworking) in open environments among "street children" and the use of community-based correctional methods in its daycare activities. Recognizing that it is better to prevent social demoralization and maladjustment rather than establish institutions that work with individuals for whom antisocial behavior has become a profitable way of organizing their relationships with the environment — beyond the control of socjety — the founders of this center undertook community work with "socially neglected" children. "Street children" are children aged 3-18 who spend most of their time outside their homes, emotionally neglected and deprived of parental support. Initially, they attempt to earn money legally (cleaning car windows, collecting aluminum cans), but over time, they begin to sustain themselves and their families through theft (especially from large retail chains), extortion, and prostitution. Streetworking, which in Polish literature can be roughly translated as "pedagogy of the streets," appears to be a promising form of social work that essentially "moves" to the streets. Among the children and youth living there, as well as emerging gangs (whose presence is not exclusive to the ghettos of Detroit but can also be observed — albeit on a smaller scale — in Katowice districts such as Załęże), it establishes and maintains educational relationships that public institutions "waiting" for their clients (formalized social welfare and rehabilitation services) would never be able to build.
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No. 2 (27) (2006)
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