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Last meeting for 2024 plans advocacy to prevent unnecessary separation and support children and families at risk-image
Last meeting for 2024 plans advocacy to prevent unnecessary separation and support children and families at risk

The last meeting for the current year of organisations – members of the Childhood 2025 Coalition, took place on the 5th of December in Sofia. It was attended by representatives of the International Social Service – Bulgaria,...

16 December 2024
Foster parents discussed cases of separation of children and families through their experience-image
Foster parents discussed cases of separation of children and families through their experience

Recent data on the factors for the separation of children from their families were presented to foster parents and social workers during the annual meeting of the National Foster Care Association, which was held in Sofia...

29 November 2024
Crises due to untreated trauma – a possible precursor of risk for separation of children and parents-image
Crises due to untreated trauma – a possible precursor of risk for separation of children and parents

On 11th and 12th November 2024 in Blagoevgrad and Gabrovo two meetings were held to consult and validate the results of the research conducted by the Childhood 2025 Coalition – "Reasons for separation of children from...

15 November 2024
Results of the study
Results of the study "Reasons for separation of children from their families" were discussed with social workers in Sofia and Plovdiv

On 30th and 31st October 2024 two meetings took place in Sofia and Plovdiv within a current research framework on the reasons for separation between children and their families conducted by the Know-How Center for Alternative...

08 November 2024
Data from a study on the separation of children and families was discussed with the professional community in five districts in Northern Bulgaria-image
Data from a study on the separation of children and families was discussed with the professional community in five districts in Northern Bulgaria

On October 29th and 30th in Veliko Tarnovo discussion meetings on the topic "Separation of children from their families in Bulgaria" were held with professionals from social services – community support centers and family type accommodation...

05 November 2024
Coalition Childhood 2025 continued also during the summer with its advocacy for improving foster care -image
Coalition Childhood 2025 continued also during the summer with its advocacy for improving foster care

Foster care is the focus of the advocacy work of Coalition Childhood 2025 because of serious risks to its development for the successful implementation of the Deinstitutionalisation process, namely as an opportunity to support biological parents...

09 September 2024
Member organisations of the Childhood 2025 Coalition explore the causes for child-family separations in Bulgaria-image
Member organisations of the Childhood 2025 Coalition explore the causes for child-family separations in Bulgaria

The Know-How Center for Alternative Care for Children (KHC) started a joint research with the Childhood 2025 Coalition on the experience of the Coalition member organisations in their work on cases of separation prevention of children...

03 May 2024
Roundtable
Roundtable "112-Foster Care" agreed with MLSP the need for urgent change

Through the EU funding, over the last 12 years, more than 40 million BGN have been invested in foster care, but its development continued to be accepted only as a project activity, without the existence of...

03 April 2024
Every third child in group residential care is a child with disabilities-image
Every third child in group residential care is a child with disabilities

In 2021 in Bulgaria 27% of the total number of children in alternative care live in residential services. At the same time, data show that one in three of them is a child with disability. There...

03 February 2024
Hope and Homes for Children-Bulgaria presented a report on re-assessments carried out on children from residential homes-image
Hope and Homes for Children-Bulgaria presented a report on re-assessments carried out on children from residential homes

On March 23, 2023, a conference of Hope and Homes for Children – Bulgaria (HHC) took place entitled "Eleven years in support of children and families". The conference reviewed the achievements of the organization and presented...

23 March 2023
The Story of Christian from Cedar Foundation-image
The Story of Christian from Cedar Foundation

"My name is Christian, but my friends call me Chris. Oh yes, I already have many friends and the people from Cedar Foundation are part of them. Since they have been supporting me my life has...

19 May 2018
The story of Teddy from Hope and Homes for Children-image
The story of Teddy from Hope and Homes for Children

"A child like this requires a lot of care" are some of the first words Teddy's mother hears after the birth of her child diagnosed with Down Syndrome. In the maternity ward, the midwives lament the...

19 May 2018
The story of Nellie from Karin Dom-image
The story of Nellie from Karin Dom

Our Early Intervention Programme was approached by a partner association in relation to a child at risk placed with a foster family. Nellie was born in the 28th week weighing less than 1000g and with associated...

19 May 2018
The story of Milena from BAPID-image
The story of Milena from BAPID

Milena was born in 1993. The doctors told her parents the hard news that she was disabled and they would not be able to take care of her. The family agreed to leave the child. Milena...

19 May 2018
The story of Boryana from For Our Children Foundation-image
The story of Boryana from For Our Children Foundation

When Boryana became pregnant 4 years ago, it never crossed her mind that her life would turn 180 degrees around and that the long-awaited Nasko would need her 24-hour support and full attention. Not just to...

19 May 2018
 
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