Guest Lecture with Mike Pugsley at KAFU

On September 24, 2024, a guest lecture “Care Practice – Relationships with Clients and Their Families in Socially Significant Professions” was held at the Kazakh-American Free University. The lecture was held as part of the anniversary of the Kazakh-American Free University. The main speaker was Mike Pugsley, Director of Development of the non-profit organization “Ashley House”. He spoke about his work, the main goal of which is to help children with disabilities.

As you know, such children have a whole range of diseases. In order to live, they need help and support. This is what they receive at the «Ashley House» organization.

Here, children with special needs undergo special treatment. Michael Pugsley told stories about patients and their health characteristics. It is clear that severe pathologies of the body change both the life of the child himself, who needs careful care, and the life of his loved ones.

Parents send children to «Ashley House» when they are forced to do business, work, or pay attention to family problems. After all, a child with special needs requires more attention – he needs to constantly undergo medical procedures.

Those present at the lecture asked Mike Pugsley a question: How do children cope with separation from their parents? What do they feel about it?

– Being in our organization is comparable to a vacation in a summer camp or a trip to grandparents in the village, – answered Michael Pugsley.

It is quite possible that the experience of the foreign “Ashly House” can be applied in our country, because professional care for a handicapped person is simply necessary, and the opportunity to receive help for his relatives is no less important.

Note that the lecture was attended by KAFU teachers, students of the educational program “Psychology” and Juliana Alison, an employee of the organization “Ashly House”.

The material was prepared by Dmitry Zhang