Thanks to the non-governmental association (NVU) "Impuls" and the project "Every child is important - support for foster families, children in foster families and families at risk in Nikšić and Herceg Novi", a counseling center for foster parents started working in Nikšić on June 1. children in foster care and families at risk.
A counseling center was also opened in Herceg Novi, and the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare issued "Impuls" a license to provide the mentioned service.
"As part of the mentioned project, several videos were recorded that talk about the importance of foster care and in which celebrities from Montenegro took part in order to convey the message that every child is important. The videos were published on the Association's Instagram and Facebook profiles, and certain television stations joined the campaign and broadcast the videos," said Violeta Mrkić, project coordinator.
The project "Every child is important - support for foster families, children in foster families and families at risk in Nikšić and Herceg Novi" is implemented by the NGO "Impuls" from Nikšić and the Center for Support of Local and Regional Development from Herceg Novi.
In order to introduce fellow citizens to the importance of foster care, the Herceg Novi Local and Regional Development Support Center organized an Open Day in that municipality.
Mrkić reminded that as part of the project, they implemented foster care training for 15 professional workers who are employed in centers for social work and service providers dealing with the protection of children without adequate parental care, as well as that the training program was accredited by the Institute for Social and child protection.
The importance of the project is best illustrated by the information recently published by the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare that in Montenegro in the period 2020-2023. only 12 children were adopted in 2000, that the adoption rate has doubled compared to the first decade of 7,9 (from 3,7 to 100.000 per XNUMX children) and that it is the lowest in the entire region of Central and Eastern Europe.
The project "Every child is important - support for foster families, children in foster families and families at risk in Nikšić and Herceg Novi" is implemented within the framework of the One-Year Action Program for Montenegro for 2020 - "Support for smart and inclusive growth - employment and social inclusion" within the framework of the IPA II financial perspective.
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