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Olesea, a 24-year old from Moldova with care experience, shares her story of transitioning from a child care institution to foster care.
În 2021-2022, CTWWC în parteneriat cu trei organizații ale societății civile: Keystone Moldova, Copil, Comunitate, Familie (CCF Moldova) și Asociația Parteneriate pentru Fiecare Copil (P4EC), a realizat o serie de cercetări la nivel național, inclusiv evaluarea complexă a șase instituții rezidențiale (IR).
Toate aceste analize urmează să servească drept puncte de reper în fundamentarea viziunii CTWWC în Moldova și implementarea acesteia, în strânsă colaborare cu autoritățile publice centrale și locale şi organizațiile societății civile, printr-o abordare colectivă, care presupune susținere…
During 2021-2022, Changing the Way We Care in partnership with three civil society institutions: Keystone Moldova, Child, Community and Family (CCF Moldova) and Partnerships for Every Child (P4EC), conducted a series of assessments on the national level, including a complex evaluation of six residential institutions (RI).
The assessments serve as a starting point to inform CTWWC’s vision in Moldova. CTWWC Moldova will work in close collaboration with central and local public authorities and civil society organizations, through a collective approach with mutual support,…
Three semi-structured focus group interviews were conducted with twelve schoolchildren, aged 13–15 years for the purpose of exploring the knowledge and attitudes towards disability of young people within Moldova. These interviews focussed on different aspects of disability and community integration.
The study identified three themes:
- Knowledge and understanding of disability. The young people's knowledge was limited and framed by the medical model of disability;
- Attitudes towards community integration. A bias against long-term care institutions, but…
This report from Opening Doors discusses the Opening Doors II pan-European campaign launched in Chisinau. This campaign addressed challenges and improvements faced in child protection reforms. This document includes latest developments, as well as facts and figures on deinstitutionalization in Moldova including counts on children in institutions and statistics on children with disabilities in institutions.
This report from Family for Every Child and partners summarises research on children’s reintegration that took place in Mexico, Moldova and Nepal from 2011 to 2014. The purpose of this research was to explore the experience and process of reintegration of separated boys and girls in a variety of contexts, speaking to children, their families and other stakeholders at different stages of the reintegration process. In total, 83 children were spoken to across the three contexts. These children included those in institutional care (Moldova), those living in small-scale residential care following…
This important report documents a 22-month longitudinal study of the reintegration of children in residential care in Moldova. This research was carried out by Partnerships for Every Child, a Moldovan Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), with the support of Family for Every Child. This is part of an overall study – which also examines the reintegration of street children in Mexico and of child domestic workers in Nepal – aims to identify successful elements in strategies to ensure the sustainable reintegration of children without parental…
On the 17th October, Dr. Stela Grigorash, a senior Moldovan child protection expert and the Director of Partnerships for EveryChild Moldova gave a presentation at the USAID/DCOF office in Washington DC, USA, on the important work and lessons learnt in reforming the care system in that country. Just over a decade ago Moldova institutionalized its children at an extremely high rate. Between 2002 and 2012 the country saw a decrease in the percentage of children in residential institutions of over 50%. As a result of the reforms so far, 18 institutions…
This graphic provides a visual representation of the causal framework of children’s institutionalization in Moldova. It was developed as part of the USAID/DCOF-funded project “Protecting children in Moldova from family separation, violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation” as part of a technical proposal submitted to the USAID/DCOF. The graphic highlights the many immediate, underlying, and basic causes that have led to the placement of 4,500 children without parental care in long-term residential care in Moldova.
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EveryChild Moldova's Programme Experience: Improving Children's Lives through Deinstitutionalization
This Program Review documents the evolution of EveryChild/Partnerships for Every Child Moldova- since 1994, presenting the development of interventions to improve the lives of children through deinstitutionalization and identifying best practices that are relevant, useful, and replicable to other initiatives and organizations around the world. It documents the programmatic approach to deinstitutionalization as a model of good practice, and makes recommendations for stakeholders in Moldova toward achieving the…