Complex for Social Services for Children and Families - Plovdiv

Structure of the Complex for Social Services for Children and Families (CSCSF) - Plovdiv:

1. Community Support Centre (CSC)

Social service in the community designed for:

• Prevention of abandonment and institutionalization
• Prevention of violence
• Overcoming behavioural problems
• Reintegration of children
• Support for families in crisis
• Training and assessment of candidates for foster and adoptive parents
• Supporting foster and adoptive families
• Training in independent living skills and social integration
  Capacity: 150 places
  Type of service: hourly
  Address of the service: Plovdiv, 38 Neofit Bozveli street and Plovdiv, 61 Kalina street

2. Centre for Work with Street Children and School Dropouts (CSCS)

Provides services aimed at:

• Prevention of street children
• Prevention of school drop-outs
• Social rehabilitation and integration of vulnerable children

Capacity: 15 places
Address of the service: Plovdiv, 18 Komatevsko Shose Street

3. Centre for Social Rehabilitation and Integration of Children with Special Needs (CSRISN)
The aim of the service is:

• Ensuring the right of every child with special needs to lead a full life.

Capacity: 30 places
Service address: Plovdiv, 38 Neofit Bozveli Str.

4. Mother and Baby Unit
Social service in the community providing:

• Temporary shelter for pregnant women and mothers at risk
• Promoting parental attachment and abandonment prevention
• Social, psychological and legal support
  Address of the service Plovdiv, 1 Stoyu Shishkov Street

5. Centre for residential care for children ‘Children's House’

• Residential service offering:
• A family-like environment
• Care for children for whom it is not possible to grow up in a biological or foster family

Priority is given to children from 3 to 12 years of age

Capacity: 15 places
Service address: Plovdiv, 20 Georgi Geshanov Street

6. Residential Care Centre for Children ‘Mother Teresa’

• Residential service with the same focus and goals as ‘Children's House’:
• Ensuring full growth and development of children at risk with priority age 12-18/20 years.

Capacity: 15 places
Address of the service: Plovdiv, 1 Komatevsko shose boulevard

7. Temporary Accommodation Centre (TAC)

Provides:

• A safe environment to provide shelter to individuals and families for up to 6 months in a calendar year
• Support for social inclusion

Capacity: 26 places
Main users: Homeless individuals and families
Scope: Regional and national level
Address of the service: Plovdiv, 4 Mortagon Street

8. Centre for Social and Health Services (CSHS)

Works with:

• Children from 0 to 18 years
• Families and carers
• Children at risk of dropping out of school
• Victims of violence
• Minors and young mothers
• Unemployed, uninsured and adults wishing to further their education
   

Service address Plovdiv, 61 Kalina Street (part of the Community Support Centre)

Provider of all services in the complex: Municipality of Plovdiv