Rosemary Day Centre

Specific principles underlying the provision of social services in the "Rozmarin" Day Centre

• Respect and promote the interest of the beneficiary as a priority;
• Protecting and promoting the rights of beneficiaries in terms of equal opportunities and treatment, equal participation, self-determination, autonomy and personal dignity, and taking non-discriminatory and positive action with regard to beneficiaries;
• Ensuring protection against abuse and exploitation of the beneficiary;
• Openness to the community;
• Assisting people without legal capacity to realise and exercise their rights;
• Ensuring appropriate role models and social status by having a mixed staff at the centre;
• Listening to the opinion of the beneficiary and taking it into account, taking into account, where appropriate, his/her age and degree of maturity, discernment and capacity for exercise, while respecting the legal provisions on mental health and the protection of persons with mental disorders;
• Promoting a family model of care for the beneficiary;
• Providing individualised and personalised care for the beneficiary;
• Ensuring professional intervention by multidisciplinary teams;
• Ensuring confidentiality and professional ethics;
• Making family members, legal representatives responsible for exercising rights and fulfilling maintenance obligations;
• The primary responsibility of the individual, the family with regard to the development of their own social integration capacities and their active involvement in solving the situations of difficulty they may face at a given time;
• Collaboration of the centre with other social welfare services.

Legislation

The "Rozmarin" Day Centre (CZR) operates in compliance with the provisions of the general framework for the organisation and functioning of social services regulated by:

• Law No 292/2011 on social assistance, as amended;
• Law No 272/2004, republished, on the protection and promotion of the rights of the child, as amended;
• Law No 197/2012 on quality assurance in social services, as amended;
• O.U.G. no. 68/2003 on social services, as amended, and other secondary legislation applicable to the field;
• Order of the Ministry of Labour and Social Justice No 27/2019 on the approval of minimum quality standards for day social services for children.

Activity description

"Rosemary" Day Centre (social service code 8891CZ-C-II) provides social assistance benefits to support children aged 3 to 9 and their families, ensuring the maintenance, restoration and development of the child's and parents' capacities, to overcome situations that could lead to the child's separation from his or her family, and to prevent the child from dropping out of school for economic reasons, marginalisation and social exclusion by providing daytime psychosocial counselling and emotional support, supervision, care, education and early development, health care where appropriate, support for the development of independent living skills, socialisation and leisure, community reintegration, vocational guidance, public awareness and sensitisation, provision of hot meals.

Beneficiaries

• Direct beneficiaries: children aged between 3 and 9 years old coming from disadvantaged families, at risk of family and school abandonment, but also at risk of social marginalisation;
• Indirect beneficiaries: families of children admitted to the centre and the community from which they come.

Services offered

The social services of local public interest offered through the "Rosemary" Day Centre are:

• Free daily transport of beneficiaries between home and CZR;
• Care, education and recreation-socialisation;
• Providing food for the child during the activities in the centre;
• Support, counselling, education for parents or legal representatives of children;
• Development of independent living skills, school orientation;
• Health surveillance, medical assistance, care and assistance to beneficiaries;
• Favourable climate for personal development;
• Protection against any form of intimidation, discrimination, abuse, neglect, exploitation, inhuman or degrading treatment;
• Socialising beneficiaries, developing community relations.

Social information services through:

• Information materials on activities and services offered;
• Beneficiary guide;
• Communication of activities, services, procedures used and any useful aspects.

Social services to promote the rights and image of beneficiaries, i.e.:

• Social and educational integration-reintegration programmes;
• Facilitating access to health services.

Programme of the "Rosemary" Day Centre – working days: Monday to Friday from 07:30-15:30.

Conditions of access/admission to the centre

Documents required:

• Application for admission to the centre;
• Notification on the processing of personal data;
• Consent to the processing of personal data;
• Medical certificate attesting to the beneficiary's state of health (that he/she is fit to enter the community);
• Referral from specialist (if applicable);
• Vaccination sheet containing the full vaccination schedule;
• Copies of identity documents (child/parent/representative);
• Proof of income earned by the parent/representative;
• Certificate from the educational establishment attended by the child;
• Marriage certificate, divorce decree, parents' death certificate (depending on the case);
• Other documents relating to the family situation.

Selection criteria for admission to the centre

• Permanent or temporary lack of sufficient income to support oneself and to meet daily needs;
• Risk of institutionalisation of children;
• Risk of family and school drop-out;
• To be social workers;
• There must be a situation of vulnerability/hardship that requires support and assistance from the local community to overcome (obvious disproportion between the level of financial/material resources and the real needs of the family; serious medical situations in the beneficiary's family that affect the work capacity of the beneficiary's legal representatives);
• The possibility of worsening family housing problems, etc. 

Conditions for the termination of the services of the "Rosemary" Day Centre

• The objective refusal of the beneficiary to continue receiving social services, expressed directly or through a representative;
• The beneficiary has moved to another administrative-territorial unit;
• Repeated non-compliance by the beneficiary with the CZR's internal rules of order (DAS);
• Infringement by the centre of the legal provisions on social services, if invoked by the beneficiary;
• Withdrawal of CZR's operating licence or accreditation;
• Limitation of CZR accreditation, if service delivery to the beneficiary is affected;
• Change in the object of activity of the CZR.

Sources of funding

• Local budget of the Municipality of Targu Mures;
• State budget;
• Contribution from relatives, if applicable;
• Donations, sponsorships or other contributions from natural or legal persons in the country or abroad;
• Reimbursable and non-reimbursable external funds;
• Other sources of funding in accordance with the legislation in force.

Contact

Address: Târgu Mureș, str. Ludușului, nr. 29, 540392

Phone: +40 365 804 850

E-mail: registratura.das@tirgumures.ro; social8@tirgumures.ro. 

Specialist Inspector: Adriana SĂLEGEAN

Head of Service "Rosemary" Day Centre: Eugenia-Daniela GHEORGHIȚĂ

E-mail: eugenia.gheorghita@tirgumures.ro