The project employs a multi-pronged strategy, segmented into four key phases: Stakeholder Engagement and Awareness Campaign, Capacity Building, Screening and Data Collection, and Specialized Treatment and Referral Mechanisms. It aims to holistically tackle the challenges and gaps that the community currently faces in the management of scoliosis. By aligning with local capacities and optimizing resource allocation, the initiative aims to enact a lasting, substantial impact on children’s spinal health in Durrës. The project “Care4Children: Scoliosis prevention and treatment” will adapt a three-folded approach in relation to:
1. Reducing Prevalence: Systematic school screenings are aimed at facilitating early detection and
immediate interventions, thereby mitigating both the prevalence and severity of scoliosis.
2. Improving Specialized Care: By instituting a dedicated scoliosis unit and engaging in professional
development, the initiative aspires to render specialized treatment locally accessible.
3. Enhancing Awareness: The project’s awareness campaigns and educational components will address
the extant gaps in knowledge and information, enhancing community understanding and proactive
healthcare-seeking behaviors.
This approach will follow the below vertical intervention logic of a project design:
Result (R) 1 Identification and Analysis of Scoliosis Cases
1.1 Conducting regular screening programs in20 schools.
1.2 Create a database to record and monitor scoliosis cases.
R2 Com m unity Awareness and Education
2.1 Organizing workshops/seminars/trainings for parents, teachers (primary and secondary level) and
physical education) and school leadership, and community leaders.
2.2 Developing and distributing educational/awareness materials, such as brochures and videos, on spinal health.
2.3 Utilizing project website and local and national level media also social media to disseminate information about scoliosis.
R3 Capacity Building and T raining
3.1 Providing specialized training for healthcare professionals in scoliosis diagnosis and treatment.
3.2 Facilitating roundtables with national experts focusing on spinal health.
3.3 Upgrading 20 schools and local healthcare facilities of the Association of the Physiotherapists with necessary equipment for scoliosis management and also 20 school physical education facilities.