PARTNERS INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT: o       ARPEGE- Action Reparatrice prestation et guidance educative, Belgium o       KELSEN Association ,  Baia Mare o       Galati Penitenciary o       Ploiesti Pencitenciary o       Charity Ortodox Association , Alba-Iulia o       High:Five, Denmark o       Foundation for Community Care Bucharest   PROJECT OBJECTIVE: Growth opportunities into the community and the labor market of 4000 prisoners in South Muntenia, Bucharest, South Eastern, Central, North West.   PROJECT ACTIVITIES: • Creating 4  social inclusion centers in the Bucharest Ilfov, South Eastern, Central, North West by NGOs active in social field • National Adult Trainig certified qualification courses for at least 500 prisoners: food worker, operator input, validation and data processing, crop production worker, worker in structures for construction, workers in carpentry, hairdressing, animal worker. • Social and psychological counseling in preparation for the prison release on various themes: labor market integration, independent living skills training, vocational guidance for 1200 prisoners • Informing activities  on finding a job for 4000 inmates in nine prisons. Information campaigns by distributing maps, flyers, posters, development of a notice board in each prison with available jobs. • Health education activities particularly in the consumption of alcohol, drugs, sexually transmitted diseases, personal hygiene, infectious diseases (tuberculosis) will participate 2000 inmates. • Activity of committing crime prevention program by conducting Recto Verso experiments, awareness program effects on the victim. 150 juveniles and young prisoners  Details...

The project will be carried out during January-October 2009 and aims at promoting and extending the active involvement of the civil society in the democratic process General objectives: Strengthening the human rights protection, as well as the independence and the reform of the judicial system regarding the young offenders by baking the extension of the use of the alternative measures on a larger scale in Bucharest and Baia Mare citiesIntroducing the mediation institution and making it functional within the Romanian judicial systemThe actively involvement of the NGOs in Bucharest and Baia Mare into the implementation of these measures. An important tool in performing these tasks is the setting up of an institutional network (made up of General Directorates for the Protection of the Child’s Rights, schools, social canteens, churches, houses for old persons and other related institutions), to support the establishment of the free work for the community as an alternative punishment for the young offenders disposed by the judges’ decision  Activities organizing a group of reflection and action with the view to setting up a strategy to carry out the alternative measures, through an experiment done at the level of instances in Baia Marean exchange of experience with similar institutions in Belgium in order to know the Belgian system of alternative measuresproducing information materials and brochures on the project and the effectiveness of the alternative measures for disseminationimplementing a pilot experiment consisting on the performance of the non remunerated activities for the use of the community instead of the sentence to prison, in Baia Marepromoting the mediation as away of conflicts’ solving in the phase of criminal pursuance during the criminal processthe setting up of an institutional network to support the social reintegration of the minor and young offendersa raising awareness campaign on the advantages of the use of  Details...

The PHARE Project 2006/018-147.01.02 aims at providing training on civic instruction to the children and young people from the Foster Centers within the General Directorates and Child Protection (DGASPC) in the districts 5 and 6 of Bucharest, with the view to turn them into the active and responsible citizens by the time they leave the Foster Centers. The project is being developed between January and October 2009. Objectives: Raising by 50% of the civic habits, behaviors and values needed for a successful integration of the children and young people living in the foster centers and in the services for juvenile delinquency in the districts 5 and 6 of the Bucharest, by: - providing sessions of civic instruction in order to raise awareness of their own capacities and self conduct, in the case of the teenagers from the services of juvenile delinquency and foster centers - information and prevention training designed to the children and young people in the foster centers - producing a paper case on the development of civic habits and behaviors – a study paper for the institutionalized children and young persons in the foster centers and services of juvenile delinquency - civic participation within the community; practicing the theories acquired during the educational activities Improving by 50% the skills of the trainers and educators in the foster centers and the DGASPC in the districts 5 and 6 of Bucharest so that they are able to enhance the civic instruction of the children and teenagers who have committed criminal deeds, but have not been punished by the criminal law. This goal can be reached by: -organizing together with the Vent Debout Association of an expedition camp, with the aim to decreasing the delinquent behavior by taking the child or teenager (cases with no criminal sentence) away from the depraved environment where he lives and by teaching him to strictly obey the rules and the persons he is sharing his time with -  Details...

CRED has been carring out three projects in the prisons, since 2nd May 2008 till 30 April 2009, in the framework of the Phare Project 2006, with the support of the Ministry of Labour, Family and Chances Equality and the Intermediate Regional Body for the Sectorial Operational Program for the Developing the Human Resources:                                              CRED Team -  "Support for professional integration of roma people who are leaving the prisons in Braila and Galati counties" - „A step forward to release by integration in the labour market" - „The Integration on the the Labour Market - a New Chance" The Partners in the project are: The Prison for Minors and Young Persons in Tichilesti, The Prison in Braila, The Prision in Galati, the Reeducation Center in Gaesti, the Prison in Ploiesti, the Prison for women in Targusor, the Prison in Bacau, the Reeducation Center in Targu Ocna, and the Division for Imprisonment of the National School for Training the prison staff in Targu Ocna. The projects aim at increasing the chances for employment for the rroma people released from these institutions, focusing on endorsing the social insertion, fighting discrimination and social exclusion, by measures meant to supporting and completing the national strategies and employment policies within the regions where they are being carried out.  The Scope of the Project 1. To develop the psycho-social abilities for the rroma people released from the institutions mentioned before to find a job 2. A larger access to information and social services for counseling the rroma people regarding the labor market and the learning programs 3. To increase the civil society commitment in fighting discrimination on the  Details...

The scope and the venue of the project: The project intends to encourage the sentence of the young offenders involved in criminal cases with complementary measures, pronounced by the judges in the District Courts in Bucharest, through acknowledging both the representatives of the judicial system and the community about the importance of appliance the complementary measures instead of the jail sentence, as more efficient ways of reducing the backsliding and facilitating the social reinsertion for the young offenders Activities To create a reflection and action group composed by the representatives of the Ministry of Justice, the Superior Council of Magistracy, Probation Directorate, the Court of Bucharest, the District Courts of Bucharest, the Prosecutor’s Office, Police, Directorates of the Child Protection (DPC), NGOs etcTo carry out a participative research on the opinions and attitudes of the community as regards to under age and young offendersTo exchange experience between the experts who are working in the field of justice for under age persons in Romania and BelgiumTo draw up information materials regarding the complementary measures comprising details on the implementation of the pilot project “Research-Action on the Appliance of the Complementary Measures”To set up an institutional network for putting on the complementary measuresRaising awareness campaignTo organize a socio-cultural event “The Week of the Complementary Measures” within the public institutions involved in the judicial system for under age persons and other related public spacesTo organize an international press conference on using the complementary measures and their function within the judicial system in different European countries    Details...

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Asociatia CRED si Echipa CERES

Presedinte CRED Camelia Tancau