Albania

 

 

 

I chose Albania as the country that my new family would be coming from as they entered into my program.  I just pulled up a list of all countries and it was the first to catch my eye!  I had several ideas as to what I would do to prepare myself and my program for the family that would be coming from Albania.  I think that the first would be to set about educating myself and my staff.  We would need to find out as much as we could about Albania, like the government, history, capital, politics, ethnicities, educational programs, languages, and other cultural features.  I feel like it would be a great idea to contact the previous program in Albania and talk to the staff there about a typical day in their program, to get a good idea of what the child is used to.  I also think that it would be a good idea to meet with the family before the start date and ask them to share with us things about living in Albania.  We could also have the family meet with staff and our current families and even answer questions if they are open to that idea.  These things would help us to learn as much as possible about this family before we started to try to provide services to them.  I would then take everything that we learned and try to integrate the same types of things into our current program.  I would try to find way to include pictures, objects, toys, foods, languages, and music from Albania in order to try to make the family feel at ease and to teach everyone in our program about our new family from Albania!

I think that these preparations will educated us in such a manner as to be able to provide the best services possible to this family.  I also think that it would teach us about how important it is to discover these things about all of our families... not just those from another country.  Just imagine if we worked this hard to find out these types of things about our current families!