The day centre has the purpose of preventing the social exclusion of children and families with an increased risk of social isolation or who are incapable to offer minimum subsistence, upbringing and education conditions through a program of medical, educational, psychological and social services provided within the day centre, it promotes the community-based rehabilitation for the children in difficulty and for the marginalized families by the means of supporting the social partnership as a method of active involvement and of assuming social responsibilities.
50 children and their families benefit of the day centre services. The group’s charactersistics and, implicitly, the selection criteria are: the parent’s lack of material resources, increased risk of negligence and abuse over the children, the lack of an adequate home, the risk for the chidren to become street arabs, pre-delinquent conduct and behavioral disorders, school abandonment and non-participation in school activities, poor medical assistance.
The Centre offers educational conditions and „social control” to children coming from under-privileged environments, in order to keep them away in their most vulnerable period from street „attractions”, from neighbourhood subculture, from the invasion of vulgarity, from ignorance and intellectual laziness, which would later produce the adult having no labour appetite, a lifelong subscriber to welfare and to State protection.
Activities:
• Detection of children at risk through the collaboration with DGASPC (General Directorate for Welfare and Child Protection) – 3rd district, schools, parishes, associations of inhabitans
• Psychological assessment and counselling for children and their parents/custodians
• Performance and implementation of individual intervention plans and the signing of social agreements with parents and children
• Activities of family and social integration and reintegration or of preventing the total separation of the child from the family
• Medical aid and ensurance of the children’s individual hygiene, sanitary education, support for the registration at the family doctor and obtaining the rights to medical aid
• Activities within the Creativity and art therapy workshop
• Provision of material support to the families and 2 daily meals for each child included in the program
• Activities destined to prevent school abandonment and educational activities
• Activities of parental education (parents’ school)
• Spiritual assistance of the families and children involved in the program, under the observance of confessional options
• Activities of entertainment and increasing the social interest and behaviour in children.
The activity is being carried on according to the minimum standards for day centres and the cases are being instrumented based on the case management. The set of instruments comprises: the initial case record, the survey, the personalized intervention plan, the psychological record, the agreement with the family, the action plan, the meeting report, the observation sheet, the quarterly evaluation record, the case closing report, activity report. The obtained results can be quantified and assessed through periodical supervision and monitoring.
Financed by:
United Way – Romania
The BRIDGE Association – Switzerland
Sodexho Pass Romania
Moeller Electric – Romania
