Active Family Support Service

Social programme that assists children and families in crisis and is aimed at prevention of social orphanhood

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Why families in crisis need help:

  • A crisis has occurred and a family is unable to resolve it independently
  • A child is at risk of losing parental care
  • Parents do not have the ability to ensure that a child’s basic living needs are met
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A stay at a children’s home has destructive effects on child’s physical and psychological development.

According to the data of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 56% of children in children’s homes have physical development impairments and 82% have psychological development impairments

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Solutions available without us

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    Children’s homes

    Temporary hardships in a family may lead to a child’s separation from the parents for ever

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    Social Services

    Social services may be inaccessible or not respond to the needs of a specific family

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    Family

    Having exhausted their inner resources, a family may stop fighting to keep their child

 

Solutions we offer

Active Family Support Service provides emergency social help to children at risk of losing parental care or without parental care. Specialists assess the needs of a child, together with the parents make a specific plan to resolve the crisis and work on implementing it. Help is oriented towards the individual needs of the child and is aimed at keeping the child in the family. If necessary, a child may be temporarily placed into a specially trained professional family till the crisis is resolved.

Key Features of the Service

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    Mobile and Responsive

    – a request for help is answered immediately, specialists go to the child’s location.

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    Comprehensive and Flexible

    The child’s needs are thoroughly assessed and an individual action plan is put together

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    Professional

    Specialists are highly competent and have many years of experience

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    Collaboration

    Specialists work in close collaboration with children, their families and other stakeholders from government and non- government organizations

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    Financing

    The service is completely free for children and parents. The service is financed from the funds raised by the organization.

Stories of Children

We value the trust-based relationships we establish with children and families that enable us to successfully collaborate in achieving our main goal – keeping the child in the family.

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OUR Achievements

“Conditions should be created in the Russian Federation to ensure compliance with rights and legal interests of the child in the family, timely identification of non-compliance and organization of preventative assistance to family and child, provision of targeted assistance to families with children in need of it and those who find themselves in a difficult life situation…”

National Strategy for Action in the Interests of Children 2012 – 2017.

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You can help children stay with their families!

100% of donations are spent on helping children and families!

2500 roubles – cost of food per week for a family in crisis
3000 roubles – cost of clothing for 1 child

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