Protection mechanism ensuring the child’s right to grow up in a family and safeguarding respect for children’s needs and best interest.

What does it offer?
- a complex procedure, ensuring the prevention of child institutionalization.

What are its goals?
- prevent child’s separation from his/her parents and institutionalization, by providing a complex assessment of the child’s needs;
- ensure that residential care meets the child’s best interest and the fact that it is the last resort;
- support the development and consolidation of family type and community based services.

Beneficiaries:
- children and families in difficulty;
- the society in general.

Long-term benefits:
- Decrease in the numbers of children in residential care and increase in the level and quality of the community based services;
- Improve and consolidate community and government support offered to the parents, for them to take care and educate their own children in the family;
- Consolidate the collaboration and communication at community level in the provision of the necessary support and assistance to children and families in difficulty.