Role of the Centre for Social Work
Services provided by the center for social work
Legal and family protection for children without parental care kujdes prindëror
- Placement under custody
- Service for abandoned children in the hospital
- Placement in transitional homes
- Placement in family housing within the biological family
- Placement in family housing outside of the biological family
- Family unification
- Placing and oversight of the child in the pre-adoption phase
- Placement in adoption with a domestic element
- Adoption with an international element
- Realization of visits after the establishment of the adoption
- Accommodation in shelters of abused and neglected children
Professional social services for children
- Professional evaluation and individual plan
- Psycho-social, awareness and educational counseling
- Visits to family, school, community with advisory, consulting and monitoring character
- Assignment of custodian for special cases – special custodian
- Obtaining of the statement
- Participation and representation in court hearings
- With developmental stagnation
- Reintegration and rehabilitation in the family and community
- Protection and treatment of children users of psychoactive substances
- Protection and treatment of children in conflict with the law under the age of 14 criminally irresponsible
- Protection and treatment of children in conflict with the law 14-16 years
- Protection and treatment of children in conflict with the law 16-18 years
- Implementation of the measure of increased supervision by the Custodian Body
- Returning to the educational process, as well as registration in certain cases
- Realization of contact between children of parents in the process of divorce or divorced
- Cooperation with other institutions, such as probation and correctional services related to children in conflict with the law
- Referral of child abduction cases with international element
- Information on rights and obligations and counseling for the legal custodian
- Referral of abduction cases with a domestic element to the Kosovo Police
- providing of an opinion on cases of juvenile marriage
- Protection and treatment of children with disabilities
- Protection and treatment of children in street situations
- Referral of children to supplementary education or vocational training programs in cooperation with Vocational Training Centers and Employment Offices
- In need of subsequent registration
- Independent and supervised living/Support in semi-independence, supervision until independence for children without parental care
- Accommodation in community-based homes for children with disabilities
- Temporary accommodation in houses for temporary accommodation
- Accommodation of children in Day Care Centers
- Accommodation of children in shelters for the protection of victims of domestic violence
- Accommodation of children in shelters for the protection of victims of sexual crimes
- Placing children in shelters for the protection of trafficking victims
- Providing professional opinion to the court for all cases requested by the court
- Relocation from NGO or family to Institution and vice versa
- Referral for placement in other residential Institutions and/or licensed NGO/s
- Protection, Rehabilitation and Reintegration Services for Victims of Participation in Armed Conflict.
Professional social services for adults
- Appointment of adult custodian
- Professional evaluation and individual plan
- Rehabilitation of family relations
- Marital counseling for cases in the process of divorce or separation
- Preparation of social anamnesis and providing professional opinion and proposal for children trust
- Attendance at court hearings
- Protection and treatment of adults with mental retardation
- Protection and treatment of adults with disabilities
- Protection and treatment of adults’ victims of domestic violence
- Protection and treatment of adults’ victims of trafficking
- Protection and treatment of adults’ victims of sexual crimes
- Rehabilitation and reintegration into family and community
- Employment assistance
- Protection and treatment of adults’ alcohol users
- Protection and treatment of adults using psychoactive substances
- Elderly and without family care – home service
- Proposal to the Court for obtaining of parental rights
- Proposal to the Court for obtaining of legal capacity
- Opinion to declare the missing person as dead
- Assessment and verification of repatriated individuals and families
Residential housing for adults and the elderly
- Housing in community-based homes for people with disabilities with mental retardation
- Placement in nursing homes for persons without family care
- Protection and housing of repatriated individuals without family care
Material support to individuals/families in social need
- Proposal for the provision of emergency (early) assistance to the Municipality, the Ministry and NGO/s
- Advocating for material assistance in food and clothing to NGO/s
- Identification of beneficiaries and distribution of various assistance from donors (municipalities, individual donors, businesses, NGO/s)
Emergency assistance
- Proposal for the provision of emergency (early) assistance to the Municipality, the Ministry and NGO/s
- Advocating for material assistance in food and clothing to NGO/s
- Identification of beneficiaries and distribution of various assistance from donors (municipalities, individual donors, businesses, NGO/s)
Overtime work in custody
- Intervention during custody outside of regular working hours during working days, weekends and public holidays.
Administrative services
- Consent to travel abroad for children of divorced parents (separated)
- Assistance in arranging identification documentation for clients in a state of social need and disability
- Consent for transaction of real estate for juveniles
- Conclusion for evidence that it is a single parent
- Certificate/Evidence from the Center for Social Work that it has fulfilled all financial obligations for food and care to the persons for whom it is responsible before the law – with the purpose of losing citizenship
- Certificate/Evidence that the person without citizenship possesses sufficient material funds to secure its livelihood and that of the persons for whose care it is responsible without using social schemes – in order to acquire citizenship
- Certificate/Evidence proving that the applicant has not been deprived or restricted of the ability to act by a court decision – in order to obtain a weapon
- Certificate/Evidence that it is not registered as a person who is under custodianship nor as a person who has been deprived of legal capacity – for the purpose of employment
- Certificate for self-supporting parents for exemption from kindergarten payment
- Certificate that it is not a beneficiary of the Social Assistance Scheme
- Certificate that it is a beneficiary of the Social Assistance Scheme
- Conclusion of living condition, for cases of family unification abroad
Social assistance service
- Providing support service from the social assistance scheme
- Accepting the request and informing about the criteria
- Verification of family poverty in the field
- Issuance of the decision for the benefit from the social scheme
Clients/categories
Children without parental care
- Abandoned
- Orphan
- Children of parents prevented from performing parental duty
- Depriving of parent the ability to act
- Parent/s serving a prison sentence
- Location of the parent/s abroad
- Parents who have been deprived of parental rights
- Parents of whose are not alive, are unknown, missing or even when the parents for any other reason are not able to take care of their children, for a temporarily or permanently period of time
Children in a state of social need
- With antisocial behavior
- Perpetrators of criminal offenses without criminal responsibility (under the age of 14)
- Conflict with the law 14 -16 years
- Conflict with the law 16-18 years
- Parents in the process of separation and divorce
- Children who make contact with divorced and separated parents
- Abused
- Neglected or unattended
- Abused
- Victims of psychological violence
- Victims of prostitution
- Child pornography
- Victim of corporal punishment
- Bullying/peering
- Disabled
- Victim of domestic violence
- Victim of trafficking in human beings
- Heavy and dangerous work
- In street situation
- Unaccompanied in the repatriation process
- Victim of sexual crimes
- User of psycho-active substances
- Marriage before adulthood
- Kidnapped with an international element
- Abducted with a domestic element
- Suicide attempt
- Asylum seekers (children, adults, families)
36. Refugees (children, adults, families) - Participating children, involved in armed conflict
- Children participating in nightclubs and gambling
Adults in a state of social need
- Mental retardation
- Victims of domestic violence
- Victims of trafficking in human beings
- Victims of sexual crimes
- Alcohol users
- Users of psychoactive substances
- In the process of divorce or separation from cohabitation
- Elderly without family care
- Disabled without family care
- Obtaining of ability to act
- Obtaining of parental rights
- Deprivation of parental rights
- Request for local adoption
- Application for international adoption
- Suicide attempt
- Declaring the missing person as dead
- Victims of armed conflict
Families/individual in a state of social need
- Repatriates
- Emergency assistance (immediate one)
Clients’ administrative requests
- Consent for transfer of property to juveniles
- Consent of identification document
- Consent to travel abroad
- Proof of possession of a weapon
- Proof of obtaining of citizenship
- Evidence of loss of citizenship
- Proof of employment
- Certificate for self-supporting parent
- Certificate for use of social assistance
- Certificate for non-use of social assistance
- Authorization to withdraw social assistance
- Conclusion of living condition for cases of family unification
- Subsequent registration
Sosial assistance scheme
- Request for social assistance aid
