Counseling, Information and Support Center for families in crisis situations
This project was established in 1995 aiming at keeping the children in their families, continuing with their school courses, reintegrating/integrating children or young people who have abandoned their studies, and preventing the institutionalization of children and family breaking-up.
The beneficiaries of this social project, more than 1000 per year, are orphans, widows, mono-parental families, people with disabilities, older people, families with many children, street children, homeless people, emergency medical cases, people detention, and young people.
Beneficiaries’ selection is made in the hearing programs of the Information Center, in the counseling and support programs for families in difficulty, depending on the gravity of the applicants’ situation. After the initial assessment of the family, the social worker makes a proposal on the intervention plan for each case. For maximum efficiency, the team seeks information and support from the institutions responsible for child protection (school, hospital, town halls, police) for the social integration of the beneficiaries.
The intervention plan consists of financial aid, material support (clothes, medical supplies, school supplies, food, and furniture), psychological counseling and support for finding and keeping a job. The social worker and the project coordinator visit the families on a regular basis for plan’s implementation, advice and family monitoring.
Depending on the severity of the cases, families can be supported for 6 to 12 months. Thus, 120 families without financial possibilities and in crisis situations receive financial and material support every month.
The annual cost of the project is EUR 50,000 in contributions from foreign partners.
The results of the project are: improved standard of living for the families supported, their education, beneficiaries’ employment for definite and indefinite periods.
Emergency financial support
The emergency financial support is given to those with serious social and medical problems, after the evaluation committee has undertaken a social investigation and confirmed the seriousness of the case.
In medical cases, emergency financial support is given for treatment, chirurgical emergencies, transplants, implants, transport of invalid people or people without financial means to clinics/hospitals from inside or outside the country.
Some pupils and students benefit from a monthly or biannual financial support for the payment of tuition fees and/or for accommodation and meals.
The persons without income or with low financial means receive emergency financial support to settle extremely serious social problems.
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The Counseling and Social Welfare Office
str. Nordului 19 bis, Bacãu, 600241, România
tel. : +40 234 586.002 | fax : +40 234 206.016
e-mail : office@asociatiabetania.ro
www.asociatiabetania.ro
