PROGRAMS FOR PREVENTING SCHOOL LEAVING IN ROMANIA

1. PROGRAMS FOR PREVENTING SCHOOL LEAVING IN ROMANIA

2. CONTENTS Types of programs implemented at national level • „School for all” • ”Romany children and parents want to go to school!” • ”Efficient solutions for preventing school leaving” • „Education – the chance towards a society of knowledge” • “School is on your side!” • „Stop school drop out!” • “Together we will succeed!” • Education in community- road with priority!

3. I. The Program „School for all” This program supports the anti-poverty measures put in motion by the Romanian Government in February 2016, offering a chance to the future to the children susceptible to poverty and school drop out.

4. II. The Project ”Romany children and parents want to go to school!” It was implemented by theRoma Education Fund Romania Foundation, in partnership with the Resource Center for Romany communities and Roma Oktasi Alap, transnationalpartner. Among the objectives of the project were: assurance of equal access to education to a number of 800 Romany students in grades V-VIII under risk of early school leaving in the regions Center, North East and South Muntenia, by providing a package of integrated mentoring services, guidance and counselling, educational support (in Romanian Language, Mathematics) and subventions.

5. III. The Program „ Efficient solutions for preventing school drop out" The CenterEducatia 2000+ and UNICEF developed the project “Efficient solutions for preventing school drop out” to offer a real support, although limited reported to necessities, to consolidate the general efforts of approaching this phenomenon in the county of Bacau.

6. IV. The Program „Education – the chance towards the society of knowledge” Also in Bacău, between 14th of April 2014 – 13th of November 2015, were helped a number of 230 students under the risk of early school leaving: Romany children, people with disabilities, but also people from rural areas, young criminals, but also children from poor families, respectively whose parents do not have the experience of basic education (compulsory education).

7. V. The Program “School is on your side” The project “School is on your side” contributes to the prevention of school leaving among students in secondary schools on Bucharest, by involving civil society and local authorities in approaching socio-educational problems related to school drop out, increasing the degree of awareness of normality and necessity of the statute of students at school age as well as by increasing the contribution of teachers and counsellors to preventing failure and school leaving.

8. VI. The Program „Stop school drop out !” • The project had as objective preventing the risk of school drop out and integrating/reintegrating in the education system the children and young people belonging to vulnerable groups, in theregions South Muntenia and Bucharest Ilfov, by participating into programs such as ,, The second chance” and ,,School after school”.

10. VII. The Program “Togetherwewillsucceed!” • Hundreds of teachers and parents in the counties Iaşi and Cluj were trained within a program called „Together we will succeed!" how to convince students through informal education methods not to leave school early.There were aimed 1.750 students in rural areas, with difficulties of learning, socially and economically disadvantaged. • The project was carried between August 2010 - July 2013 within a partnershipbetweenFilocalia Iaşi Foundation, "Copii fericiţi" Foundation in ClujandtheCounty Center of ResourcesandEducationalAssistance in Iasi.

11. VIII. The Program “Education in community – Road with priority!” • Reducing school leaving at the level of Tulcea and Brașov counties, bydevelopingsome educationalmeasures adapted to intervention in 16 identified communities, with an average group of 15 people. • The aim was to reintegrate those who leftschool, but also to keep the others into the system.

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