The Short Course in Management and Organization of Parish Social Action Institutions/Services aims, in the first instance, to promote the training of agents/actors of the Church's Social Pastoral (Institutions, Movements, Brotherhoods, Confraternities and other Formal and Informal Groups) with a view to maximizing the levels of efficiency and effectiveness underlying their intervention in the territories. Its structuring assumes Identity ("being Church") as a valuable, rare and inimitable resource whose combination with other resources through organized processes, structures and systems will contribute to leveraging the performance of the mission entrusted to Socio-Charitable Action in promoting Integral Human Development (IHD).
 

What are the objectives?

• Analyze the Challenges of Social Action in Ecclesial Communities;
• Identify the Basic Objectives and Operational Principles of the Church's Social Action;
• Deepen the Strategic Orientations inherent to the Intervention of each Organization/Service;
• Explore the Organizational Aspects that Facilitate Good Management of Social Pastoral Structures;
• Understand how the Church's Social Institutions can leverage their contribution to the promotion of Integral Human Development.

Curriculum Structure

• Social Action in Ecclesial Communities;
• Basic Objectives and Operational Principles of Social Pastoral;
• Identity as a Driving Resource for Socio-Charitable Action;
• Strategic Management in the Church's Social Institutions;
• The Creation of Economic, Social and Cohesive Value as a Product of the Organization.

Recipients

Leaders and Technical Staff of the Church's Social Institutions in Portugal.