- Development of Leaving Care Services in Kyiv Oblast
- EU Development of Integrated Social Services for Exposed Families and Children (2005-2007)
- Mother and Baby Unit in the City of Chernigiv (2004-2006)
- Establishment of Family Care Support Services in Rural Areas
- TACIS IBPP - Capacity Building of Local NGOs in Providing Focused Social Support to Vulnerable Families with Children (2004-2005)
- Development of Fostering and Family Support Services for Care Supervision (2003-2005)
- Preventative Services for Mothers and Babies
- Family Crisis Centre ‘Care’
- Complex Aid to Children and Families in Lviv Oblast
- Developing Residential Practice - Internat No 2 in Lviv
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« Mother and Baby Unit in the City of Chernigiv (2004-2006)
Project Objective:
Prevention of abandonment of infants to state care.
Project Background:
Download booklet Among the total amount of children-orphans and children, deprived of parental care (103 thousand in compliance with the officials statistic data of Ukraine), 12-15 thousand of children are those, whose parents left them at birth.
The majority of parents who abandon their children are under aged.
The idea of the project was to repair and equip a comfortable premise for 8 persons in the city of Chernigiv, which is now used as Mother and Baby Unit. Parents stay in the Unit only when they continue their education and at the same time take care of their children.
While parents are absent (classes at school, preparation of home assignments, participation in professional growth courses), the Unit staff assists in looking after their children. At the same time parents are responsible for self-care: cleaning, cooking, taking care of other children.
This helps them to gain the independent living skills. A social worker works with an under aged mother as well as with a biological father of a child in order to reintegrate the mother to a home environment.
After the end of the Project the Unit is financed from the state budget.
Pilot region:
Chernigiv, Ukraine
Target group:
- parents including under aged parents, who express a wish to abandon their children;
- mothers - students;
- state care institutions graduates;
- pregnant mothers including under aged mothers, who want to abandon their children;
- mothers - victims of violence.
Project Implementers:
- State Center for Social Services for Youth;
- Chernigiv Oblast State Administration
(Chernigiv Oblast Center for Social Services for Youth) - EveryChild Ukraine
This project is financed by
World Childhood Foundation
acting under the patronage
of H. M. Queen Silvia of Sweden
Communication workers' union
Humanitarian Aid Society
(CWUHA, UK)
- parents including under aged parents, who express a wish to abandon their children;
