specific needs of children and elderly left behind as a ... - IOM Moldova

CHAPTER II
BOX 18
Model of providing specialized services. Temporary
Placement Centre in the municipality (FG_EE_urban)
“The centre has been working for about 2 years. We have 8 people in placement
and 24 people attending the day-care centre. The beneficiaries of the daycare
centre attend for a month, but those in placement stay from 1 month to
3 months and they can stay longer if they don’t have wood for heating in winter
or something else. We collaborate with the mayoralty and if they accept, the
beneficiary can stay for 3 months more. The centre has employed 3 social workers
and one psychologist. We provide various services. The person comes in the
morning, drinks his/her tea and afterwards is involved in activities with the psychologist,
social worker and medical nurse. We invite the doctor only if someone
needs to be examined. At 13.00 PM they have lunch but those in placement
eat 4 times a day: in the morning, in the afternoon, at 14.00 PM and at 18.00. I
am in charge within the centre to develop the memory, creative therapy, testing,
individual consultation. The social worker deals with different handicrafts
activities. The elderly also attend the centre that is located nearby “Socium”.
There they have computers and sewing machines. We have beneficiaries who
attend the centre with great pleasure as they are eager to learn something new
although some of them are 70 years old.
Approximately 50% of our beneficiaries are lonely and have children who are
labour migrants They are longing to visit the centre because they have no one
to socialize with, they watch TV and that’s all... they do not need the food as
much as they need communication and understanding....”
Specialized social services imply the involvement of multiple specialists
to maintain, rehabilitate and develop individual capacities aimed at
helping to solve these difficult situations. These include day-care specialized
services and temporary placement centres providing medical and
psychological assistance. Most often these centres combine specialized
support with primary care activities. Temporary Placement Centres, as
a rule, are set up by representatives of civil society with the support of
international organizations: the centre “Reîntoarcere” (“Return”) has for 2
years offered support to homeless people. Many of them do not have documents
to prove their identity (Identity Cards). We accept them, try to get
new identity cards for them and later on we place them in a boarding home
provided by the Republic of Moldova. They benefit from all facilities. They
stay in the centre as long as it is necessary to make them a new ID. While
obtaining the documents they get a residence at the centre for 6 months. If
the centre “ Reîntoarcere” doesn’t have enough space we appeal to other
centres for support. For example, we have a good collaboration with the
centre from Rezina” (FG_EE_urban).
The mobile team is a new type of community service recently developed:
“in the municipalities, a mobile team was formed to identify lonely homeless
people” (FG_EE_urban).
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