A place where one can receive interdisciplinary services by facilitating a long-term result in the life of an individual child, as well as in the local community and at a broader level.

It will be possible to use a package of various services (medical and social rehabilitation, family training, various alternative therapies, e.g. dog therapy) in one place.

It is unique for the Baltics, as there are currently no alternatives that would cover the demand for neurorehabilitation services for children in such an extensive way.

Ilze Durņeva as a personality – head of the society with 7 years of experience, who started creating support groups for other families raising children with special needs due to the experience of her own family and her search for help. Thus she established the society “Dižvanagi” and brought together professionals who are now forming the core of the new centre. Ilze’s work not only includes the provision of services and organisation of support measures for 150 families in Latvia and 25 families abroad, but also the advocacy of interests through advancing recommendations for the development of social policy within the state, as well as in the municipality of Liepāja.

Home based neurorehabilitation

Palliative care for children at home

Individual consultations

Craniosacral therapy

Therapeutic massage

Montessori classes

Kanis-therapy

Support groups

Naturopathy

Kinesiology

Acupuncture

Sensory room

Medically appraised social service Period of implementation – since 2011 The programme includes:

• A 5-day training cycle for the family (2 times per year)
• Evaluation of the health status of a child
• Individual consultation for a family (from 3 to 5h)
• Drawing up of a child development programme for 6 months
• Additional consultations during the programme implementation period
• A 12-day rehabilitation programme (1-2 times per year)

Rehabilitation and additional examination is often carried out partially, lacking sequence and handing over the information.

Each child is examined individually and as a whole person considering the intellectual, physiological and mental state of the child.

Parents and specialists often speak dierent languages, there is a gap where should be translator/coordinator, and parents often feel helpless and can’t understand the condition of their child.

The whole family is a client; parents are being trained to understand their child and to be able to use appropriate actions in dierent situations, when the child is in need of help.

Help is given in the form of campaigns; the most intense actions are until the determination of the diagnosis and during the acute phase of disease.

Long-term rehabilitation for the child, intensive therapy at home each day.

Nutrition aspects are not evaluated and corrected if necessary, which creates additional stress for the patient’s body, and child is resistant to all the rehabilitation processes.

Adjustments of nutrition and the implementation of new habits are of great importance, as these changes can benefit the whole health of the organism.

The process of rehabilitation is fragmented and incomplete, it is not aimed towards a common goal, if health problems and indicators of development are not evaluated and incorporated into the concept of the whole person.

Children not only show improvement of their neurological state, but also general health and physiological functions.

The role of the parents is secondary, the main providers of the rehabilitation are health care professionals, rehabilitation doctors and specialists.

Actual involvement and role of the parent is a cornerstone in achieving the desired results.

Use of medicaments is an important factor to maintain the health of the child.

At the initial stages of rehabilitation, the use of drugs is limited or substituted with alternatives if possible.

Tax rebates for enterprises

The Law on Enterprise Income Tax prescribes that tax shall be reduced for residents and permanent representations by 85 % of the amounts donated to a public benefit organisation (such as “Dižvanagi” society).

Social Rehabilitation Institution (in LM Social Service Register)