Kaunase pst 11-2

Tartu, Estonia

E-mail: ch.abuse@online.ee

Phone: +372 7484 666

Website: www.tugikeskus.org.ee

Tartu Child Support Center was established as an NGO in 1995. It is the first of its kind in Estonia, where a multidisciplinary team is involved in work with abused or/and neglected children and their family members. Child Support Center aims to prevent child abuse and domestic violence in Estonia, by raising awareness of community, providing professionals with training, and by counseling and treating abused children and their family members.

The essential functions of the Child Support Center are the following:

• providing psychological, social and medical counseling, psychotherapy and acute aid in emergency cases to the children and their family members that are exposed to/suffer from violence;
• training of specialists that are engaged in work with children (medical practitioners, social workers, pedagogues, psychologists, juvenile police officers, prosecutors, judges etc.);
• establishing network of specialists in Tartu and spreading the particular model throughout Estonia;
• shaping public opinion towards domestic violence and child abuse issues in our society.

The work of Tartu Child Support Center is based on teamwork. All team members are qualified, provided with special training to deal with abused children and their family members.