Romania

Ador Copiii Association is a non-governmental organisation founded in 2004, that has been at the forefront of adoption activism and service provision since 2008. Ador Copiii Association contributes to the development of the children protection system, to the creation of social and effective adoption services and to improving the quality of life of vulnerable children.

Institutionalised Youth Council (CTI) is a Youth-led Organisation focusing on institutional care, care leavers and child protection systems based in Romania. CTI has long-lasting experience in the field of defending and promoting the rights of the institutionalised young people currently or not (post-institutionalized) in the special protection system and increasing their active participation in their communities. Most of their team has first-hand experience as care leavers. CTI has great experience working with children and including them to events and public speaking. They are also known their active policy making effort which resulted more than 200 amendments in the last year in the area of deinstitutionalization. CTI is the member of the European Care Leavers Network and the Federation of Non-Governmental Organizations for Children (FONPC) in Romania  also Eurochild member. The current President of the organization is Mr. Andreeas Novacovici.

The ICAM Network is a confederation of organisations that have worked together to develop national programmes for schools throughout Europe to improve the well-being, inclusion and engagement of disadvantaged children both at school and in the home. Most recently the network has a focus on inclusion of the approximately 25 million European children who are affected by migration in school and in society. This includes the approximately 5 million Children Left Behind by parents migrating to work abroad. Their work is entirely based on ensuring the UNCRC is applied and achieved.

FARA Foundation’s mission is to transform the lives of marginalized children and young people from Romania’s poorest communities. It aims at providing a loving family, specialist therapy, access to education and training and preventing homelessness.

Founded in 1997, the Federation of NGOs for Children acts for the benefit of children and community by promoting and monitoring children rights. It aims at ensuring the inclusion of children’s rights in all public policies and the implementation of a national monitoring system. The Federation gathers about 100 NGOs.

Hope and Homes for Children in Romania is focused on reforming the childcare system by closing down old state institutions for children and by developing a range of family-based childcare services. Preventing separation of children from their families, reintegrating children back into their birth or extended families, social reinsertion of youngsters leaving care, social audit and training and technical assistance are part of their focus as well.

Friends of Children Romania is working with children living in care. They are committed to support families in difficult situation and vulnerable children. They work in partnership with the Child Protection Directorate – the county authority responsible for supervising child protection in Bacau which is a rural area close to Moldova where the organization operates. They provide quality care for children in their homes (have two residential homes 7 children each) and they have a solid work ethics (this was acknowledged several times by the Bacau CPD Director in his discussions with HHC). They are committed to respecting children’s rights and to encourage and foster child participation, supporting the integration of children in local communities.

Justice for Minors is an NGO formed by a group of professionals with over 15 years of experience in the field of juvenile justice. It collaborates with experts in legal field, lawyer, mediators, psychologists and experts in child behaviour and social assistance experts. Their activities are based on guaranteeing and protecting children’s and family’s rights and improving the national and European justice system safeguarding the children’s best interest. They have gathered a working group of legal professionals that share the same feedbacks and goal in developing a network platform with access to all judicial communications related to cases that involve children. 

Casa Bună currently works with about 300 children from vulnerable communities in and near Bucharest, and in 2 rural locations in Arges county. Although children in Romania have the right to education, healthcare, and adequate living conditions, in practice many children from vulnerable communities are excluded or have difficulty in accessing these rights. Casa Bună works on 4 main areas: education, health, vocation, and wellbeing.