The project provides for the construction of the necessary infrastructure through the realisation of engineering and supply of furniture and equipment to Centers offering resident integrated health and social services in the community, providing health care, medical surveillance and social work in support of children with disabilities and high-risk behavior and their families. The implementation of the project is in line with the process of deinstitutionalisation, creating conditions for replacing the institutional model of childcare with care in an environment close to the family. The implementation of the project will ensure social inclusion and equal access to services for children with disabilities from the MSFD and the community, according to the Map of Residential Services to the Updated Action Plan for the implementation of the National Strategy “Vision for deinstitutionalisation of children in the Republic of Bulgaria”. The project will build 11 Center for specialised health and social care for children with disabilities with a need for permanent medical care and 1 Center for specialised health-social care for children with high-risk behavior and need for special health care (CSADGs with IRP), where children with disabilities will be accommodated by the abolishing MSFDs, with a need for permanent medical care, for which a family environment cannot be provided, as well as for children with disabilities with a need for permanent medical care and children with high risk behaviour from the already existing resident services and the community. 1 IRS DGS will also provide advisory, therapeutic and support to children from the community with high-risk behaviour and special care needs. The centers will provide the opportunity for raising 6-8 children, max. 2 in a room, and the furniture and equipment will be tailored to the needs and health of the children, in an environment close to the home. The project proposal also provides for all activities related to organisation, management, engineering, control of construction works information and publicity.
