Family Support and Reintegration are forms of protection, ensuring the child’s growing and development within a family, by preventing abandonment and returning the child from the institution into his / her biological or extended family

What does it offer?

• social and financial support to families and children in difficulty (the issuance of the necessary documents, support in finding a job, etc.);
• information and counseling of parents, in order for them to realize the risks and consequences of child institutionalisation;
• competences, developed with both children and their parents.

What are its goals?

• preserve the child in the family;
• prevent child abandonment and institutionalization;
• reintegrate the child from the institution, and support him/her within his/her family;
• meet the child’s needs, regardless of their nature (behavioural, relational, health, etc.);
• increase the responsibility of parents and the community;
• reduce the numbers of children in institutions.

Beneficiaries:

• children at risk of abandonment;
• children in institutions;
• street children

Partners:

• Chisinau Directorate for the Protection of Child's Rights, Ungheni, Cahul, Orhei, Soroca Raion Councils and City Administration of Tiraspol.

Family Support and Reintegration services were implemented in the Republic of Moldova in all localities where EveryChild has worked. The working principle of these services is to support the family at crisis to avoid child’s institutionalisation or help the child to be reintegrated in biological, extended or alternative family.

Family Support has focused not solely on financial support provided to the family at risk. We are guided by the principle that in order to help the family recover from crisis it is not just money that counts, it is also about psychologicla and emotional support.
Local public authorities from Chisinau and Cahul have taken over these services integrally for further development in 2002, and those from Ungheni and Orhei at the beginning of 2006.