![]() ![]() A considerable number of adults and children with disabilities live in institutions, some of them for decades, where they are not able to exercise their rights on the same basis as others. While the 2013 Law on Social and Child Protection set preconditions for deinstitutionalization and shift from institutional to family and community-based care, overall, current legal and policy framework continues to allow institutionalization and is not fully in line with CRPD. Since ratification of the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its Optional Protocol in 2009, Montenegro has made progress in promoting the rights of persons with disabilities. Upon developing the training programs for professionals, the consultant will conduct capacity building activities for the representatives of the Centres for Social Work and Children’s Home “Mladost”, Bijela, relevant line ministries and institutions/organizations/services providers including representatives of local self/government. for foster care with intensive support, and urgent foster care for professionals in the system of social and child protection and professionals in other relevant sectors. ![]() In addition, the Consultant is expected to prepare training programs on foster care with particular focus on foster care for children with disabilities without adequate parental care i.e. This will include defining foster care centre standards of work, review and adaptation of the centres for social work role and recognizing the role of the Centre for Foster Care in the process of recruiting, assessing and supporting foster carers.The consultant is expected to define standards of work of foster care centres, propose the optimal set up for piloting the first Centre for Foster Care with a view of setting up three regional centres for foster care to be established by the Ministry of Labour including the description of its role, job descriptions of its staff, the program of work, and division of tasks between the centres for social work and centres for foster care etc. Purpose of this activity/assignment: The purpose of the consultancy is to strengthen the overall foster care system in Montenegro by developing standards of work for centres for foster care to enable focused work on development of foster care in the country with specific focus on specialized and urgent foster care for children without adequate parental care, particularly for children with disabilities at greater risk of institutionalization. The objective of the consultancy is to support establishing and piloting the first Centre for Foster Care. To help them fulfill their potential.Īcross 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children.
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