Description
Living conditions of many Roma families threaten the care and development of their children with danger of institutionalization. The project wants to achieve their maintaining in or returning to original families. Increasing parental competencies of the parents and participation of public institutions with other non-profit organizations and supporting inclusive early education and the development of children will sustain prosperity of these children. Also the coordinated network of support for families at risk will be developed . Project will support minimum 85 Roma children and 55 parents with professional help and set an integrated system of methodical work among the public administration and NGOs in the field.
Summary of project results
The project „The Right for Family“ reacted on the need of disadvantaged Roma children who live in socially excluded conditions. There is high risk that these children will be removed from their biological families. Coordinated cooperation with institutes, clearly set and comprehensible plan and individual support of family enables deeper work with causes of family problems and finding steps leading to reach set objectives. Methods of parent competences, including a questionnaire for mapping these competences, was created. Second output of the project was a methods of multilateral coordinated cooperation – casemanagement, which serves for specific setting of cooperation with families and experts, including case conferences. Then we widen the service of the Centre for Families and Children which prepare children for entrance into common kindergartens and elementary schools. During the project 67 parents were supported in child care consulting, in developing their parent competences and in individual counselling. Simultaneously, a cooperation with 6 relevant Child Protection Bodies was improved including methodic setting of cooperation in multiproblematic families. A complex care was provided to the targeted group of Roma children and families. Parents developed their parent competences, set their individual plan with a social worker and with Child protection body worker. We provided a legal and individual counselling to parents, whose children were removed from the family in the past. Then, 47 children in Preschool club were systematically prepared for entrance to common kindergartens and elementary schools.
Summary of bilateral results