More than 900 professionals working in the area of protection of children in situations of risk or without parental care, professional parent assistants, parents-educators of family-type children’s homes, managers, psychologists, social workers, psycho-pedagogues, social pedagogues of temporary placement centers, day centers, community centers or multifunctional centers and specialists of local social assistance and child protection units benefitted from training within the project “Strengthening of professional skills of personnel providing social services for children and youth in Moldova”, IPN reports.
The project was aimed at increasing the professionalism of personnel providing social services for children and youth and transferring knowledge based on international and Czech standards, good practices and experience in growing and educating children speared from parents and children in situations of risk.
The project was implemented by the Center of Investigations and Consultancy “SocioPolis” of Moldova and Caritas Czech Republic and was financed by the Czech Development Agency.
Deputy Minister of Labor, Social Protection and Family Viorica Dumbraveanu thanked the Czech Embassy in Moldova and the Czech Development Agency for such an open and sustainable partnership in training and increasing the capacities of professionals involved in child protection.
“The good organization of the process of assessing the needs of children in situations or risks and of those separated from parents and the training of professionals from the child protection area were possible due to the activism and direct involvement of the Social Assistance and Family Protection Divisions of the Ministry of Labor. The sustainability of the training will be ensured by the training course elaborated within the project for professionals who work or will yet work in the area of child protection,” she stated.
“This project that focuses on the urgent and long-term social protection of vulnerable groups of children is very important for us. We are glad that we established cooperation relations with the Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family, including by ensuring experience exchange between the relevant ministries of our countries. During five years already, we have supported activities aimed at improving the quality of life of children speared from parents,” said Czech Ambassador in Chisinau Zdeněk Krejčí.
The training course will be available in the Romanian and Russian languages to professionals at the website of the Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family.
The project “Strengthening of professional skills of personnel providing social services for children and youth in Moldova” was implemented between September 2014 and June 2016.
