Week one

When we heard our mission for the first time, we where quite overwhelmed. Organising two workshops (one about intake and one about support plan) AND a seminar about teenage mothers isn't an easy job to do. Especially when you only have four weeks to do it.

That is why we had a slow start. The greater part of our first day was spent on getting to know one another and learning some facts about Roumania, CCF Poplii fara soti and vzw Oradea.

(Later on, we will post some information about ourselves, so that the partners in Roumania, Lier or any other place can get to know us too.)

The rest of the week was spent searching information. We visited a CKG (wich is quite similar to a CCF) and learned a lot about intake and support plans. We also started searching literature about teenage mothers. We are now trying to sort all of the information that we found.

The first week has been really chaotic, but we are starting to see where we are heading for. All of the pieces of the puzzle are falling into their place, but we still have lots to do. On the agenda for next week is:

1. a brainstorm about the seminar


2. research about teenage mothers
   


3. making a first draft of the seminar


4. a brainstorm about the workshops


5. lots of practical things like preparing the budget, a contract meeting with Patrick Bellinck, adjusting the workshops, preparing some visits...

The Oradea-team

Our mission

Our mission exists out of two parts: organising and giving workshops, and organising a seminar about teenage mothers.

Workshops

Last year a group of students from Kortrijk organised two workshops. One about intake and one about support plans. The intrest for these workshops - that were eventually given at Oradea - was considerable.

We will make some adjustment to these workshops and then organise them for the staff of CCF Poplii fara soti. It is not our intention to teach, but to interact.

Seminar about teenage mothers

The seminar about teenage mothers is something new. It is our intention to organise this seminar together with the staff of CCF Oradea. We will prepare as much as possible in belgium during the next couple of weeks. With our work we will then sit together with the staff of the CCF and see if there are questions or comments about our work. Then we can work together to improve the seminar.

The seminar will take place on friday may 25. We will invite as much people as possible who work with teenage mothers, or are confronted with teenage mothers at they're work, or elsewhere.

The Oradea-team

Some facts about the CCF

The organisational structure of CCF Plopii Fara Soti wasn't quite clear to us, but Patrick Bellinck (project manager of project Oradea) was so kind to explain it to us by mail.

A CCF is a 'Complex of services for Child protection and Family support', This is quite similar to a CKG (Centrum voor Kinderzorg en Gezinsondersteuning) in Belgium.

The authorised Roumanian authority is the General Direction for Social Assistance and Child Protection Bihor (D.G.A.S.P.C.B). General Director is Mrs. Vadnai Zita Koncseck.

The D.G.A.S.P.C.B. itself is being subsidised for running costs by County council Bihor. County president is Alexandru Kiss.

Lets go back to CCF Polpii Fara soti.

A CCF is an organised network for child protection and family support, existing out of 4 services:

1. Service for parents' counseling
2. Service for emergency reception of abused and neglected children
3. transit centre
4. Maternal centre

The symbolical name of the CCF in Oradea is 'Poplii fara soti'. Translated in Dutch that means 'espen of populieren zonder echtgenoot'. In English that becomes 'The lonely poplars'. That name refers to single mothers, one of the most important target groups of the CCF.

The General Manager of the CCF is Alexandru Tiba, who is a psychologist.


Internal co-ordination counselor is Judit Makai, who is a social worker.

Internal co-ordination ERC + maernal centre is Ildiko Ferencz, who is a social worker.

Supervision: vzw-Oradea; project manager is Patrick Bellinck, who is represented locally by Szabi Herman.

The Oradea-team

Our project

We are a group of students at 'Katho hogeschool departement IPSOC'. At the moment we are working on project Oradea.

The next couple of weeks we will post about our progress regurarely.

the oradea-team