- Fundatia Generatia
Center of psychotherapy for children and adolescents
Intr. Dragusa Street No.6
Bucharest
Romania
Phone +40 (21) 336 61 95
Fax. +40 (21) 330 66 49
Email generatia@fx.ro
URL http://www.generatia.ro/
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Vera Sandor, Bucharest
Helping today´s children today ... and their children tomorrow
A brief portrait of "Generatia Foundation" (Fundatia Generatia)
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What we do
Purpose and objective of activity
Protecting Romania’s children has become a priority for the 90s. Yet the child protection means more than just material support. Social, legal, educational and medical aid is urgently needed – and experts are working hard to fill the gap.
The "Generatia Foundation" is dedicated to the psychological aspects, but these are not always easy to see. Psychological support is needed to protect the children from mental illness, provide them with effective treatment, and inform those adults – both at home and at school – who care for children on a daily basis.
Why we are needed
Actual status
Neglecting the psychological aspects of childcare can have tragic consequences. A child may be abandoned emotionally by the family, subjected to inappropriate treatment and the unnecessary use of drugs, or branded for life with the label “mentally ill”. A child may drop out of school, suffering more acute trauma as result. He (she) may fail to achieve his (her) educational potential and blight his (her) chances for future success in life.
Other negative results may include transmission of psychic disorders from one generation to the next; discrimination and social isolation based on a false dichotomy of “sick” versus “healthy”; the neglect, and, finally, the loss of an individual’s unique, creative personality and his (her) potential for free expression.
Romania’s childcare services are only just starting to pay attention to the psychological and psychotherapeutic aspects of childcare. Over the past 50 years, the psychological approach has been censored and even forbidden. Specialists are in short supply, and haphazard or inadequate training hampers most. The general public remains uninformed about the importance of psychological care.
Health services tend to provide material care and nothing else. The spectacular failure of this approach can be seen in hundreds of children homes, where abandoned children receive food and medical care, but almost no emotional or psychological support. Many of these children now suffer from irreversible mental disorders.
Whom we help
Beneficiaries
First of all, our programs provide direct support to children, adolescents and their families – and to the children of the future.
In long term, we provide indirect support to nurseries, kindergartens, schools, universities and children’s health clinics. We also help specialists in other areas who must work with children and their problems – with no adequate professional help, except a psychiatrist.
One day, specialists trained by the Foundation will come to work in these institutions. Students who wish to specialize in psychology and psychotherapy for children and adolescents can have a chance for real and effective training.
How we are organised
Structure of "Generatia Foundation"
Local Board of Directors – to set the priorities, outline the programs, coordinate professional and administrative activities.
International Professional Board – to supervise programs, provide support through theoretical and practical training courses.
The Foundation will set up "Units" with specific and complementary functions:
a) Psychotherapeutic Cure Unit – to offer on-site consultation and treatment for children and adolescents around the country;
b) Specialised Training Unit – to provide theoretical and clinical training programs at set periods of time. These will be open on a competitive basis to specialists who pursue post-university training in child and adolescent psychotherapy;
c) Research Unit – to guarantee material and professional support to students and specialists doing research in child and adolescent psychology and psychotherapy, or in related fields;
d) Publishing Unit – to translate and publish specialized literature by classic and contemporary authors in the field of child and adolescent psychology and psychotherapy. Most of this literature is impossible to find in Romania. Specialists urgently need it, and by everybody else who works with children.
Money from donations will be used exclusively for the activities listed above.
With whom we work
Cooperation and communication
The foundation will work closely with universities in Romania, Western Europe, the USA and Israel to select students for training programs, make contact with clinics and teaching units around the country to set up more programs for newly qualified specialists.
How we are funded
Financial Resources
Under current legislation, the funds needed for our activities as a non-profit organization may come from the following sources:
- Donations
- Subsidies
- Current activities
- Subscription charges on publications
In the initial stages, a major part of our funding and specialized support will come from known and respected international sources.
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Short biographical note
Vera Sandor lives and works as a psychoanalyst in Bucharest, Romania.
Please see as well
URL http://www.stiftung-fuer-kinder.de/projekte_rumaenien.htm [in German]
Information can be obtained from
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Tuesday - Friday 10-19
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Vera Sandor
Fundatia Generatia
Center of psychotherapy for children and adolescents
Intr. Dragusa Street No.6
Bucharest
Romania
Phone +40 (21) 336 61 95
Fax. +40 (21) 330 66 49
Email generatia@fx.ro
URL http://www.generatia.ro/
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Citation Vera Sandor, Bucharest, Helping today´s children today ... and their children tomorrow. A brief portrait of "Generatia Foundation" (Fundatia Generatia). In: TRN-Newsletter 2, Hamburg Institute for Social Research, June 2004.
URL http://www.TraumaResearch.net/net2/portrait2/sandor.htm
Copyright © 2004, Vera Sandor and TRN-Newsletter, all rights reserved. This work may be copied for non-profit educational use if proper credit is given to the author and the trauma newsletter. For other permission questions, please contact via email the editor Cornelia.Berens@his-online.de
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