Helping Children in Institutions During their Process of Deinstitutionalization!

On the 29^th and 30^th of April 2015 in hotel “Marieta Palace” in Nesebar in implementation of the project “Prevention of Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Context of Deinstitutionalization” funded by the OAK Foundation and Medicor Foundation the first of the planned seminars was held. The project is implemented on the territories of districts Burgas, Plovdiv, and Sliven and similar seminars will be held in the other two regional cities.

Participants in this event were specialists working in the institutions providing services for children and youth on the territory of Burgas, representatives of “Child Protection Services” in the city of Burgas, Local Commissions for Combating Juvenile Delinquency Sredets and Plovdiv, Social Assistance Directorate Plovdiv, Associate Assistance Directorate Burgas, and Association “Demetra”.

During the seminar the participants were introduced to the goals and objectives of the project as well as with the report of the conducted study of the knowledge, attitude, and opinion of children and youth towards the problem of “sexual exploitation.”

One of the goals of this training was to bring out on a local level the problems and difficulties working with children and youth for prevention of sexual exploitation.

The content of the Handbook for prevention of sexual exploitation for professionals which will be published over the course of this project was also discussed.