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How the Children’s High Level Group allocated its funds

Press release, 1st November 2006

The funds raised in Romania and UK in 2006 were allocated as follows:

Community Nurses Initiative

The CHLG has agreed, in a matching partnership scheme with the Government, to sponsor the employment and training of 100 community nurses (making a total if 200 nurses altogether) in order to help implement part of the National Action Plan on the Prevention of Child Abandonment of babies to which the CHLG contributed recently.  Community nurses are urgently needed and this initiative will directly benefit mothers and babies at risk throughout the country.

 

National Survey of Institutions (over 1000)           

To evaluate physical facilities and quality of care standards for children with disabilities in particular.  This will lead to a report with recommendations for action for the Government.  This is the first ever comprehensive National Survey of its kind and has involved 50 evaluators and 120 inspectors.

National Strategy for Community Action          

This National Strategy , which links together high schools with special schools and placement centres and High School volunteers and children with learning difficulties or physical disabilities, already involves 35,000 High School volunteers and 40,000 beneficiaries in Special Schools, Centres, Homes, hospitals and hospices throughout the country.  The CHLG organised an international conference to promote Romania’s successful model for Community Action, outstanding in Europe, which delegations from 12 European countries attended, stretching across Europe from Austria to Armenia.  If, as it is hoped, Romania’s Ministry of Education and the CHLG can encourage these other countries to establish their own National Strategy for Community Action, then (assuming the same rate of success as Romania)

potentially almost 1 million young people and children in need, hardship or distress could directly benefit from Community Action – a life changing

experience for each one involved.

 

The Toll Free Line (Green Line)               
This has been supported by the CHLG this year (as well as RomTelecom and others) which will enable many more tens of thousands of children, young adults and others to benefit from this free, confidential help line.  This service provides care, support, advice and security through the professional standards and services offered by its operators.  The CHLG has sponsored an online service in addition to the telephone line service, which will encourage more children to use the line and make it more accessible to more young people.

Support for the Inclusion of Children with Special Needs in mainstream schools          

The CHLG is sponsoring the development of an inclusion project which, in sector 4 of Bucharest, saw 50 children with special needs participate fully in mainstream schools with a 100% attendance record and a 100% graduation rate too.  Other sectors will now develop their local action plans for the development of inclusion.  The CHLG will continue to support all necessary training of trainers and good practice dissemination.

Sponsorship for a Conference on the Psychiatry and Psychology of Adolescence 
This was the first such conference to be held in Eastern Europe.  Experiences gained from the conference should directly inform professionals in the field of Adolescent Healthcare in Romania and bring benefit to those in need of current and present practice treatment plans.