The February IREX/Assistance to Russian Orphans (ARO) Program Newsletter provides information on the many recent activities and seminars. ARO (Assistance to Russian Orphans) expert consultants led seminars and trainings on child psychology, family intervention, emergency psychological assistance to children by telephone, support services for foster families, and early intervention for children between the ages of 0-4 for specialists in Barnaul, Komsomol'sk-na-Amure, Novosibirsk, and Tambov in February.
The ARO Team provided valuable administrative training to ARO partner organizations during grant management seminars held in Novosibirsk and St. Petersburg and a project management seminar in Tomsk. ARO experts also carried out supervision of child abandonment prevention services in Tambov and Novosibirsk. The National Foundation for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NFPCC), the key implementing partner of the ARO Program, and the Tomsk Oblast Department of Family and Children's Issues announced the winners of a joint grant competition for social services, which will be implemented as part of the Tomsk region's “Children of the Tomsk Oblast” Program.
