~ OUR GOAL ~

The development of new and the advancement of existing aspects of alternative familial children care (foster care, adoption, and custody) in accordance with the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

~ News ~

August 26th 2011

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Dear friends and colleagues,
The English pages of FAMILIA website are currently under reconstruction. Please be patient or try to find more information about our work and current projects on our Serbian pages. We can also be contacted by e-mail or by phone +381 11 334 6836.

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~ Who we are? ~

FAMILIA is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political organization which, through a developed associates network, acts at the level of the Republic of Serbia, with the objective to ensure foster care of the children deprived of appropriate parental care, by initiating, developing and acknowledging various comprehensive models of support to children, biological and alternative families, as well as to professionals, all in line with the best interests of the child It was founded on October 20, 1998. by/with a support of SC UK, Belgrade Office, City Centre for Social Welfare, Yugoslav Centre for the Rights of the Child and Civic Initiatives.

Values and types of conduct the organization cherishes

The following system of values and types of conduct has been agreed upon: trust, dedication, initiative, professionalism

How FAMILIA envisages the community of the future and its place in its vision of the community

"Our vision is a community where we would feel secure and like to live in because it supports family environment as an encouraging one for development of adolescents' potentials, but is also sensitive to the needs of other generations, it possesses developed, diverse institutions in terms of their contents and organization, which enable meeting the needs of all citizens and guarantee exercise of the right to information, choice and availability of services, and it develops and fosters relations based on trust, reliability, responsibility, inter-generational support, recognition of diversity and the right to privacy."

Vision of the organization

In 3-5 years FAMILIA will become a resource centre for development of the model of foster care of children, providing information and knowledge to the professional public and citizens, it will be stably financed, with developed dislocated associates network and partner relationship with social welfare system institutions, in view of developing complementary services and resources, along with established mutual trust and trust of beneficiaries.