School of practical social work

School trains social pedagogues, social workers, volunteers in healing people, giving professional assistance to them, self-assistance, trains young social pedagogues to organise social and charity activities, to take care affer eldery people and disabled children.

School for teaching adults comprises different forms of educational assistance to adults, provides adults with different applied and knowledge.

Bureau of public services includes children’s and adults unions, they offer services in psychology, pedagogy, medicine, information, education, charity, social sphere, law and ceremonies.

Popular festivals – village festivals are organized taking into account traditions of folk culture and local customs.

Complex of small enterprises, organization of family cooperation, small enterprises, home labor, school cooperatives, agricultural schools, workshops for traditional handicrafts aimed at restoring traditional popular arts and trades, creation of additional working positions for community members, particularly for young people, women, elder people and invalids.

The project of the Neverov community center of social pedagogy and social work called «revival of Russian ecclesiatory» envisages a development of a new complex service of social assistance to public, it is at the Neverov Center. It was organized by the authorities of Nepekhtsk district of Kostroma region on the territory of Voskresensk village council. Pedagogues, cultural workers, medical workers, social pedagogues and workers of the district are involved by the Center. It works with children and youth, families with many children and unhappy families, single and elder people, invalids and refugees. The Center services 860 people of the community. The work is headed by the director and his 3 deputies. Two family pedagogues, two pedagogues – organisers of cultural leisure, one social worker are on the Center's staff.

The major trend in the work with people are physical culture and sports, development of popular traditions, agricultural creative and technical labor. An important aspect of village life is farm labor. It is one of the stability factors of each family and community on the whole. Center's staff encourages joint work of children and adults on their private lots (every family has a rather large farm, collective village activities on making the life more comfortable and planting trees and shrubs; children’s efforts to grow and store vegetables for school canteen, children's farms for sealing greenery, decorative and fruit plants, their desire to decorate their homes and lots with flowers, development of gathering and production.

The center organisms joint children’s and adults’ leisure. On the basis of school and culture clubs different sections for children and adults are working. There are sections of decorative arts, sewing, knitting, photography. The school has an art school for children with music and arts departments. Working days of villagers are made happier with art exhibitions and auctions of exhibits. The center has become a heart of restoring Russian traditions. Such ceremonies as farewell to Russian winter, Sfirovetide, village festivals, competitions of accordion players and chastooshka singers have become traditional. Old wedding ceremonies are being revived now. There are also new traditions: a festival of the first furrow and sheaf, celebrations for war and labor veterans, days of senior citizens, parties celebrating joining the Army. Both children and adults are involved by social pedagogues in all kinds of recreations. Social pedagogues also teach parents to celebrate family holidays.

There is a course for young social pedagogues, it is taken by children who are good at social and pedagogic activities.

The center offers psychological, pedagogical, medical consultations) to villagers.