The Development and Psychotherapy through Action Association implements the project "Step by step, growing with dignity!" from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2023 together with their partner Moreno Huset AS from Norway. The initiative was joined by even important institutions from the county, this being the Dolj County Police Inspectorate, the Craiova Detention Center, the Dolj Bar and the General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection Dolj

The project aims to promote respect for children`s rights at the national level, improve the conditions for conducting judicial investigations involving children, increase access to recovery and mental rehabilitation services for children with disabilities, improve the skills of professionals in dialogue and interaction with children. minors. The final target group is 1,207 children, especially children from rural areas, who are victims of domestic violence and abuse, children with disabilities who are deprived of affectionate and protective treatment, children who come into contact with public institutions in judicial investigations , children who will overcome the traumas and know their rights. A number of 70 professionals from the partners and collaborators, respectively the Dolj County Police Inspectorate, the Craiova Juvenile Detention Center, the Dolj Bar, will benefit from training in the field of child rights protection and will support the project.

Project activities include:

• acquisition of land;
• the construction of a building on the purchased land and the establishment of a community center that will provide services to the beneficiaries (eg, therapy and psychological counseling sessions, etc.);
• arranging a therapeutic garden;
• arranging two spaces for minors within two public institutions in Craiova;
• training of the 70 professionals from public institutions in the national child protection system;
• organizing a mobile caravan to promote respect for children`s rights at national level,
• bilateral activities carried out in collaboration with the Norwegian partner in the field of child protection.
  The project receives a grant of € 1,926,662 from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through EEA Grants, under the "Local Development, Poverty Reduction and Increasing Roma Inclusion" Program. The aim of the project is to promote respect for children`s rights at the national level.

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