Servicii sociale

Support for socio-professional integration of the young persons who are leaving the protection system within the General Directorates of the Social Assistance and Child Protection (DGASPC) in the districts 1, 5 and 6

Venue: Bucharest-Ilfov

The purpose of the project
The project is carried out between May 2008 – April 2009 and aims at increasing the chances of insertion on the labor market of the young persons aged over 18, who are ready to leave the child protection state system

Partners in the project:
General Directorates of the Social Assistance and Child Protection, District 1, Bucharest
General Directorates of the Social Assistance and Child Protection, District 6, Bucharest
General Directorates of the Social Assistance and Child Protection, District 5 Bucharest
The 2003 Alternative Association, Bucharest

Target group
110 young persons (20 from DGASPC district 1, 30 from DGASPC district 6, 60 from DGASPC district 5) aged between 18 and 26 years old, ready to leave the child protection state system

The ultimate beneficiaries:
• The communities that will integrate these 110 young persons after they leave the child protection state system. The larger is the number of the employees, the bigger is their contribution to the development of the community; nevertheless, the amount of dependent people on the state aid is decreasing
• Approximately 200 persons within the state protection system (DGASPC Bucharest) who are directly working with young persons. Their work consisting on integration into the society of the young people leaving the child protection systems will be more efficient
• Families set up by these young people; as soon as they have a job, they will be able to insure a stable income for their own family members
• The employers, who will be able to hire qualified persons, who have chosen to attend a particular professional education in accordance with their personal abilities and skills, identified during the activities of vocational counseling

The main activities:
• Advising and professional orientation towards young people (individual activity)
• Testing their capacities through a cluster of tests
• The setting up of an information and counseling center (at the organization’s headquarter) and some working points in each of the three districts
• Building up the requested abilities for getting a job (group activity)
• Caring out the requested activities for the efficient use of the information and communication technologies in getting a job
• Organizing a job fair
• Setting up the round table with the representatives of the institutions in the community
• Issuing the information materials for young people (brochures, papers cases leaflets) and for the personnel (guidance books)
• Organizing a seminar for disseminating the information materials and the projects’ results

The envisaged results:
- the increasing of the young persons access to the vacancies and to proffesional qualifications’ courses
- the young people involved in the program will opt for a particular professional qualification, suitable for both their wishes and possibilities and for the social work needs
- the young participants to these actions will gain the abilities needed for issuing the self presentation documents for getting a job, will get the capacity to compare their personal level of qualifications/knowledge gathered in school with the requests of the desired position and will be able to plan their professional/educational choice, according to the desired job
- increasing the involvement of the civil society in supporting the inclusion of the young people who are leaving the foster centers on the labour market