P4EC Moldova works to give vulnerable children who are, or risk being, separated from their family or community a safe and secure future. They empower children, their families, communities and authorities to create opportunities for a better life.
Where they operate
Headquarters Location
Moldova
Organization Type
Main Areas of Work
What They Do
P4EC provides technical assistance which supports the national government to develop policy and legal reforms and technical and financial support to local authorities across Moldova to strengthen capacities to close down large-scale institutions and put in place effective gate-keeping mechanisms, family support and reintegration services, foster care services for children with disabilities and day care facilities as means of preventing separation. P4EC has piloted the closure of large-scale institutions for children with mental disabilities and developed the first practices for inclusive education, which were then used for the development of the National Programme for Inclusive Education (2011). P4EC has a record of closing down/reorganizing 21 large-scale residential care institutions in the RM. P4EC follows a complex approach in shifting from institutional to family-based care involving much more than closing down large-scale institutions and moving children to family settings. It involves the development of a range of systems and services aimed at preventing child-family separation; targeting cash transfers towards the most vulnerable families with children; establishing gate-keeping mechanisms; development of family-based alternative care services and closure / transformation of residential institutions. The process also implies strengthening the mainstream educational system to provide individualized support to deinstitutionalized children and children with special educational needs in order to facilitate inclusive education thus preventing child-family separation due to educational reasons
Residential Care Service Transition Support
Supports they have offered, or plan to offer, include:
- Introducing the importance of family care and reintegration to leaders in the organization
- Strategy and planning for the transition
- Donor and board engagement
- Community awareness raising and engagement
- Partnerships
- Government engagement and linking to systems reforms
- Assessments of children and families
- Family tracing
- Preparing children and families for transition
- Social work or case management training or support
- Staffing adjustments or training
- Use of buildings and other assets
- Developing new programs, including:
- Family and community strengthening
- Alternative family care (including kinship care, foster care, adoption)
- Advocacy
- Early intervention programs
- Provide funding for the transition
- General coaching or consultation
- Onsite training
- Online training
- Onsite visits/meetings
- Phone calls/video conference
- Provision of standards and written guidance or tools for transitioning
- Connecting with others or building a network
Partnerships for Every Child Moldova plans to support transitions in Moldova and Kyrgyzstan. P4EC is recognized as one of the key actors in RM in supporting authorities to implement the child care reform, making a significant contribution at different levels of the system
