Tzuby’s Kids is part of the Romania Without Orphans (ARFO) movement. Every year, we run a national Summit and this year we are doing it online with national and international speakers. The Summit aims to inspire, encourage, and train people in Romania who work or want to work with children at risk. Details at: https://www.romaniafaraorfani.ro/en/summit/
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Circle of Security training – delivered online for the first time by Tzuby’s Kids Training Academy
Starting today, we started a new Circle of Security training session for parents and future parents, but, for the first time… online! The program focuses on parent-child interaction, based on the theory of attachment described by John Bowlby. It is developed by Kent Hoffman, Glen Copper and Bert Powell, three of the initiators of the internationally…
A new Trauma-Competent Caregiving training (TCC) delivered for foster parents in Brașov and Sibiu
In order to increase the quality of foster care services, Tzuby’s Kids Association, in partnership with the Romania Without Orphans Alliance (ARFO), organized, between September 29 and October 13, 2020, a new training in Trauma-Competent Caregiving (TCC) . The course is organized in 9 training modules and has accumulated 20 hours of training. The modules were organized…
Attachment theory and practice
This webinar discusses how our first relationships impact our attachment style, which in turn shapes our relationship landscape for life. Participants can find about the basics of secure and insecure attachment, as well as how to encourage secure attachments or cure insecure attachments.
Three messages of encouragement
We started 5 years ago and, looking back, we have nothing to regret: over 1,000 people trained in trauma-informed caregiving, hundreds of adoptive and foster parents counselled and part of our support groups, dozens of children who are no longer in institutions but in families due to our direct support. While evaluating the effectiveness of the…
Somethimes beaurocracy helps, here is one of such case
Bureaucracy is always frustrating and seen as a time-waster (sometimes it genuinely is). But in one critical instance, it helped Teddy and Gabi Verzea to complete the adoption process with Cristi. In this video they are telling us the story of how and why they went back on their decision not to continue the adoption…
Preparing the biological child for a new adopted family member
Teddy and Gabi are adoptive parents that have been part of our support groups while in Romania and online after they moved to Germany. They continue to share their adoption story and present the perspective of preparing the biological child for adopting a new family member in the episode below:
About the need of a support system in adoption – Gabi & Teddy’s story
Gabi and Teddy continue to unveil their adoption story. They have been part of our support groups and in the episode below they are talking about the need of such a support system with a few examples available in Romania:
How can I adopt a child from Romania? International adoption procedure (limited to nationals living abroad)
Romania ratified the Hague Convention on Child Protection and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption by Law No. 84/1994. The Romanian central authority in matters relating to intercountry adoption is the National Authority for the Protection of the Rights of the Child and Adoption(NAPCRA). NAPRCA receives the intercountry adoption applications and it is the authority…
Why we exist and what we do @ Tzuby’s Kids
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