- Development of Leaving Care Services in Kyiv Oblast
- EU Development of Integrated Social Services for Exposed Families and Children (2005-2007)
- Mother and Baby Unit in the City of Chernigiv (2004-2006)
- Establishment of Family Care Support Services in Rural Areas
- TACIS IBPP - Capacity Building of Local NGOs in Providing Focused Social Support to Vulnerable Families with Children (2004-2005)
- Development of Fostering and Family Support Services for Care Supervision (2003-2005)
- Preventative Services for Mothers and Babies
- Family Crisis Centre ‘Care’
- Complex Aid to Children and Families in Lviv Oblast
- Developing Residential Practice - Internat No 2 in Lviv
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« Preventative Services for Mothers and Babies
Purpose:To prevent young children going into care, reduce abortion rate, family breakdown and isolation of women, provide social support to women.
Target group:
- Women, especially young, lacking support and under pressure put by the family and/or community, which may make them have an abortion or abandon ‘the unwanted' baby into institutional care;
The Mother and Baby project was focused on the youngest entrants into the current system of institutional care.
It aimed to demonstrate that social work intervention at a crisis point in life of vulnerable pregnant women can produce better outcomes for both them and their children.
A team of three social workers were working with the staff and directors of the two main baby homes in Lviv city to identify mothers at risk of abandoning children and to reunite babies who have been placed in care with their mothers, where it was safe to do so.
The project was implemented with Lviv oblast Department of Family and Youth and Lviv oblast Department of Health Care.
- Women, especially young, lacking support and under pressure put by the family and/or community, which may make them have an abortion or abandon ‘the unwanted' baby into institutional care;