Community Support Center

Manager: Elena Kostadinova, social worker in charge

Service contact details: 4700 Smolyan, 24 Bulgaria Blvd., 3rd floor, tel. +359 301 81 771, +359 301 81 772, fax +359 301 81 771, email: cop_smoian@abv.bg

Capacity: 30 core users

Specific activities (beyond the ones described in the definition or methodology):

1. Conducting group psycho-social and pedagogic trainings on prevention of violence against or among children, building skills for empathy and tolerance, establishing relationships and friendships. Trainings are organized at the request of school management or form teachers.

2. Since 2015, the team has been implementing an Information Program for parents who are separated, before, during and after divorce.

3. Psychological, pedagogic and social counselling of children and adolescent boys and girls residing at the two Family Type Placement Centers and a Monitored Home run under the umbrella of the Smolyan SSCCF.