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…

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.

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…

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…

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:

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:

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…

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In this video Gabi and Teddy remember the first visits they had with their future adoptive son, and the bad news they got shortly after – that he had severe autism. This is the story of how they struggled with the news  and what their decision was:

Today is the International Family Day and a proper time to listen to this half-hour interview about an adoption experience shared for Speranta TV in Romania, just after the family had completed the process and they were preparing to go back home in Germany. The interview is in Romanian, but you have English subtitles (make…