3 Most Devastating Concerns Regarding Romania’s Child Protection System

Romania Without Orphans Alliance (ARFO) recently published an independent reports offering a behind-the-curtain analysis of Romania’s current Child Protection System, including statistics such as retention rates or institutionalization rates based on protection methods and geography.  We encourage you to read the full report and here are only 3 of the most devastating concerns revealed by…

What are the mechanisms of anger and how do we help children who have been abused and abandoned to manage their associated behaviors?

Steven Stosny defines, in his book “Treating Attachment Abuse” (1995), a therapeutic model for patients with a history of physical and emotional abuse in close relationships and provides a chemical explanation of how anger acts as a sort of “psychological rescue.” One of the hormones that the brain secretes during anger is norepinephrine, experienced by…

9th Grade High School: “I volunteer from 7 years old!”

On Saturday, we held a trauma-informed caregiving course for volunteers who will dedicate their free time this year to get involved in the educational development of about 70 children in state social apartments. “Hello,” says the first person to come. “I came to bring my daughter, I will return to the end of the course…

The condition of children under Romania’s Child Protection System

On paper, Romania’s Child Protection System offers a child temporary intervention until they are reintegrated into their biological family, or placed in an adoptive family. In reality, this “temporary intervention” usually lasts until they become an adult. For these children, who cannot be reintegrated into their biological family, their path to adoption is made especially…

We wish you a Merry Christmas!

and a year in which we’d stay together so that the dream of abandoned children to have a family would become reality.  “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him God with us.” (Isaiah 7:14)

The most important adoption event in Romania, took place at the end of November

The Romania Without Orphans Summit benefited from an international presence among both speakers and over 400 participants.! Highlights The ARFO Report on the Situation of Children in the Protection System was launched. While positive aspects such as the opening of the list of “hard to place” children have been highlighted, unfortunately, still fewer than 6%…

We are preparing for new projects

Two years ago, “Tzuby’s Kids” Association was born out of the desire to help as many abandoned children to have a family. During these two years, we have seen children coming in loving families that would have been institutionalized for life, we have seen parents learning how to help the healing process of children with trauma…