Children`s Path

About this project

<p style="text-align: justify">The project aims to answer the needs of improvements in the prevention and counteraction to all forms of violence against children in the North-West of Bulgaria.</p> <p>The target group includes children&nbsp;victims or witnesses of crime, children&nbsp;in conflict with the law with a focus on vulnerable Roma&nbsp;children.&nbsp;</p> <p>The project plans to develop and introduce a new specialised support service called "Children's Path". In parallel, the project will provide&nbsp;continuous upgrading of the expertise and competence of professionals working with children. The trainees will be magistrates in the target region and members of local Coordination mechanisms for children protection - interagency teams established in every municipality in&nbsp;Bulgaria in 2010. The implementation approach includes a series of thematic meetings between the children and magistrates, taking place in the courtrooms.</p> <p>The project has the ambition to lead to a more effective detection and investigation and to a reduction of the re-victimisation of children during court and pre-court proceedings.&nbsp;Thus, it is expected to have a tangible and sustainable contribution to the&nbsp;improvement of the status and the opportunities for&nbsp;vulnerable children as well as to the capacity of the professionals working with children.</p>

Project partners

• Development of North-West Bulgaria Foundation Project partner· Bulgaria