Romania Without Orphans Alliance is organising the #ARFO2019 Summit in Bucharest, Romania during November 7-9, 2019 at Crystal Palace Ballrooms. “A family for home” is the menu that more than 50,000 children in Romania would like to order if they could. Children for whom the concepts of “family” or “home” are just beautiful dreams. The summit is a journey…

3 years ago we started support groups for adoptive and foster parents at Tzuby’s Kids. We shortly realized that we need to work in parallel with the adopted children, so Paul Dîrmon, our psychologist, assessed their symptomatology and prepared therapeutic interventions in parallel with the parent support group. During these 3 years, we had the pleasure…

Each year we organize three weekend camps for adopted or placement children and a summer camp for children in social apartments. Last week we’ve been with almost 40 institutionalized children in a camp where we followed both the emotional and behavioral development of children, as well as the sensory processing and music-therapy sessions, all through individualized interventions (one…

International adoptions could be resumed and the course will be simplified. The proposed amendment of the law comes in the context in which 80 percent of the abandoned children are difficult to set up and are not wanted by the Romanian families. On the other hand, those who will take children with disabilities will receive…

Given that in practice we have encountered many situations where the role of the case manager is unclear or unknown, we have decided to create, together with the Center for Training and Assessment in Social Services (CFCECAS), a video training providing information about: Taking up the case and initial assessment of risk situations; Systemic /…

There were over 52 000 children registered in the protection system in December last year. For a balanced development, each child has the right to be cared and nourished by a family. The child that for some reasons cannot be raised in his biological family, should be placed in the protection system only temporary until…

Bucharest, May 15, 2019 – “Tzuby’s Kids” Association and Romania Without Orphans Alliance, in partnership with SUN PLAZA Romania, organized the “Family Imprint” event on May 15 – International Family Day – within the Commercial Center. The event included a series of workshops that parents and children enjoyed, such as face-painting, drawings, and family imprint artworks…

This year we aim to organize a therapeutic camp for approx. 40 children from orphanages and 3 therapeutic camps for approx. 60 abandoned children currently integrated into substitute families. In total – 100 children! Therapy is based on Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) principles and addresses specific symptoms for children with traumatic history such as: disturbing…

Tzuby’s Kids Association is a member of Romania Without Orphans Alliance (ARFO) and we are actively involved in the process of improving legislation in the field of child protection and adoption. Last week, ARFO was awarded during the Public Participation Awards Gala for its advocacy projects. Thanks to the organizers for their consideration.

We are glad that these days we’ve been hosting the ARFO trainers program for Trauma Competent Caregiving (TCC), one of the best programs in the field. The trainers will also prepare specialists and adoptive / foster parents from Romania and the Republic of Moldova to work with children with trauma history. We wish them much…