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II. Another major preoccupation is improving the
living standards in the placement centres in the sense
of creating a family atmosphere.
This can be achieved in 2 ways:
1. training the staff to correspond to the mental,
emotional and physical needs of the children
2. reorganising and adapting the spaces as well
as ensuring the necessary equipment for creating
familiar conditions, a process performed with extra
budgetary resources (World Bank, ANPCA, SERA
Foundation etc)
III. The final point in the reorganisation of the
institution was the transformation into a centre of
social community services, a process shown in the
Staff training
Educational and care staff trends
CENTRE
Total staff
Since the takeover of the institutions, a number of 84
children were reintegrated with natural families that
live in the municipality.
Currently, a number of 175 children are being
monitored; their institutionalisation being prevented
through counselling and/or material support, and a
number of 6 children for whom institutionalisation was
prevented by reimbursing various expenses.
2. Protection of the family
A. Placing the child in a family
On 31.06.1997 there were 49 children given into
custody of families/persons resident in Bistrita.
Between 1.07.1997 and 1.04.2004 placement
decisions were issued for 169 children, currently there
new Organisational Chart approved by the County
Council starting 1.01.2003.
The services included in the new structure are:
- the service for child abandonment prevention
through family planning
- the service for monitoring, assistance and
support of pregnant women
- the service for child reintegration into the family
- the maternal centre
- the counselling and support service for parents
- the emergency centre for receiving babies and
for evaluation
- the centre for family placement
- the day centre.
Number of staff, 1 July 1998 Number of staff, 1 April 2004
Medical staff
Education and
care staff
BISTRITA 134 45 59 76 14 12 29
Total staff
Qualified staff
Medical staff
Education and
care staff
are 108 active cases of children given into custody of
family/persons.
B. Placing the child with a professional maternal
assistant
On 1.04.2004 there were 66 foster families hired that
were resident in the town of Bistrita, looking after a
number of 79 children whose parents live in the
county.
Since the activity started, the protection system in the
professional placement families offered shelter and
care to a number of 64 children aged between 0 and
10 years, with parents living in Bistrita. Of these:
- 48 are still in the system
- 10 were reintegrated with their natural families