KOMA Base
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Contact: labor@komabazis.org
Phone: +36 70 701 5116
Mission
Our mission is for KOMA Base to become the home for disadvantaged young people, aged 10-18, who are struggling with integration disorders, neglected, or at risk of dropping out of school. Here, they can find safety, support, and opportunities for development, enabling them to change their way of life and improve their life chances.
We aim to achieve the reintegration of a youth group that would be lost without intervention so that in the long term they become able not only to work but also to improve their living conditions.
The most important approaches to be used in the implementation of the program are person-centeredness, prioritizing self-help, and involving young people in all elements of the activity. This means that we approach each person in our care with the maximum consideration for their personal needs, developing an individualized development program for everyone. For us, the focus is not on the problem but on the person.
We provide space and opportunities for those young people who turn to us for help.
Our main principle is that it is not the young people who have to integrate into the institution; we try to adapt the institutional framework to their needs.
Target group needs
Young people with fewer opportunities are at the center of our work.
We are well aware of the needs of the young people who come to us, which can be summarized as:
Activity system
All our activities serve their support and development, which we implement in an interconnected, complex system. The focus of our interest is the development of the individual and their personality. Our goal is to implement person-centered community development. This is carried out by a professional team of specialists with various and complementary expertise.
Drop-in center
We create a community space that ensures free participation and offers the opportunity to become an active, creative, and responsible member of the community, and every element of its operation is aimed at developing the individual's self-awareness, personality, social skills, and competencies. A person-centered program that realizes individual and community development in parallel. It develops and implements an individual development plan for the joining young people under the guidance of mentors who work in a supportive relationship with the young people.
KOMA Lab
KOMA Lab is a social institution where we collaborate with young people struggling with integration disorders to help them create personal life opportunities. Together, we work towards achieving a psychological, physical, and knowledge-equipped state that enables them to live independently and seize their chances. Our ultimate aim is to foster an independent, self-aware, self-accepting, and harmonious personality capable of handling challenges and articulating personal goals. Our goal is complex lifestyle formation, which includes individual and group care, personality and competence development, community and leisure programs, life counseling, information and knowledge expansion, learning support, and individual development.
Individual support
We create helping relationships with each young person. In this supporting process, we constantly monitor and discuss the person's individual life path, together with them we look for solutions and ways out of their "life problems".
The helping relationship is a way of continuous, personal care. The helper-mentor is the person whom the young person trusts the most among the team members. We hold a team meeting on a weekly basis, where we jointly develop the strategy and method of assistance.
Community Events
All events at the Base are free and open to anyone. The goal of our events is to rediscover the power of community. We talk, we share, we create. We host non-regular events where you can play, compete, measure your ping pong skills, celebrate togetherness, and collect memories.
Effects
We aim to achieve the following effects and changes with regard to the target group:
- Facilitating social reintegration;
- equal opportunities for disadvantaged young people and their families
- Resocialization process, implementation of the influence system that affects the person in full;
- Individual support and development of excluded and vulnerable young people;
- Learning and experiencing community life
- Prevention of school dropout,
- Prevention of substance use and addiction,
- Prevention of destructive behaviors,
- Development of self-assertion ability
- Making the person suitable for studying, working, and leading a healthy life, which in our understanding is the harmony of physical, mental, and spiritual health;
- fostering cultural integration for youth who were not born in Hungary, don’t speak the Hungarian language, or belong to another culture;
