The training component is one of EveryChild’s most important activities, and focuses on training human resources in the sphere of social protection of the child and the family.  EveryChild personnel have vast knowledge and practical skills in the area of developing services for social protection of the child and the family.

Professional skills were gained through:
• Participation in various training courses promoted both, in the Republic of Moldova and other countries (the UK, Sweden, USA, Germany, Holland, Bulgaria, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine, etc.);
• Development of social services in different regions across the country: foster care service, family support and reintegration service, gate-keeping (prevention of children’s institutionalization), child abandonment prevention service, service for social inclusion of young delinquents, etc.

EveryChild has enough potential for offering training for different levels of competence in the area of social protection of the child and the family, in the context of on-going professional training:
1. initial training
2. in-service training
3. specialized training

On-going training objectives:
• Train human resources capable to contribute to the increase of social services quality and to the development of social protection system;
• Gain fundamental knowledge in the area, gain abilities to deliver social services for the child and the family, according to the minimum standards of quality;
• Develop maximum intellectual and creative potential of social assistants and social workers to ensure the specialists’ professional and social integration;

The training offered follows the following principles:
• Adaptation of the contents of the on-going training to the requirements of the continuously developing system of social protection;
• Practical orientation of the on-going professional training for social assistants;
• Mobilization of professional and personal potential of the specialists working in social area;
• Mobilization and application of all available means of information, within institutional and non-institutional limits;
• The use of interactive teaching methods that increase the degree of beneficiaries’ participation in the learning process.
• In order to provide practical application of the training, positive practices models are used. Those models are presented according to a unified methodology of their identification and description. In the same context, we provide the application of practical abilities within the successful social services developed by EveryChild, and organize study visits abroad, to provide knowledge about similar experiences (based on the relations of collaboration established by EveryChild).

EveryChild can deliver training/specialized/in-service training cources in social protection of the child and the family, to the following groups of beneficiaries:
• Managers of local administration structures (Social Assistance, Education and Youth, minors and moral issues, Chief Medical Specialist, LPA representatives in-charge with social issues);
• Specialists who work in the named administrative structures;
• Specialists of social services (medico-social, socio-educational);
• Managers, teachers from residential type institutions and from mainstream community school;
• NGOs working in the social sphere