We are written by Regina Pastrana, director of the CRAE Maria Reina, educational project of The Resilis Foundation. A year ago, crae Maria Reina became part of the Foundation.
Maria Reina is on her birthday. Just a year ago we started a very important process for us: we became part of the Resilis family.
A large part of the team had spent their entire working life here, growing up as professionals and contributing to build a shared project, and the announcement of the change opened up a series of uncertainties and doubts. What now? Surrogacy occurred at a difficult time for the centre: complex cases, and up to 4 long-term maternity leave. A distracting scenario, at least.
“We continue with the same institutional commission, the same indications, temporalities, etc. but the approach is another”.
It’s time to take stock, a year later. They say that the important thing more than where you get is what you find along the way, that on the way there is the most interesting thing and that enriches us. And it is true that we have had many experiences these months. We continue with the same institutional commission, the same indications, temporalities and demands, the accompaniment and tutorial follow-up that we do of the children has not changed, but the approach is another.
Becoming part of an entity of the magnitude that has Resilis Foundation has a negligible impact on everyday life, especially if one comes from a model like ours. Feeling sheltered under such a wide and firm umbrella provides calm and serenity, and avoids loneliness and uncertainty in the rush of decisions, accompanied by technical supervision that is always there. And that’s important. A change that has also given us a sense of belonging to a larger environment, and the possibility of sharing experiences and ways of doing with other directions of other resources. Problems and difficulties persist and we are likely to manage them in the same way, but with a point of conviction in knowing ourselves accompanied and validated in our intervention.
“They say that the important thing more than where you get to is what you are finding along the way, that on the way there is the most interesting and that enriches us”.
It wasn’t simple, we’re not going to fool ourselves either. Adapting a whole dynamic very established to a new operation, conditioned (as it should be) to quality systems, is an important effort to restructure functions and responsibilities, to incorporate and redistribute tasks, and it is an opportunity to introduce substantial changes with the aim of always improving the attention we provide as a service.
Examples include having recovered their own cleaning and cooking service (titanic work!) or the more rational rearrangement of schedules (perhaps more titanic yet!). Integrating circuits and protocols, a task where we are still in the beceroles and there is still much to do, is an arduous job of entry, but that is gradually automated and simplified.
“Feeling sheltered under such a wide and firm umbrella brings tranquility and serenity”
In short, that we are partying, in a year we have felt fully integrated into the Resilis family, with the feeling of receiving support and warmth (we have passed some big!) but also to provide the community with experiences and good practices so that they can be replicated and shared by other services.
Regina Pastrana, director of crae Maria Reina