The Community Support Center (CSC) is a community-based social service designed for children and families with the aim to:

  • prevent child abandonment and placement in specialized institutions;

  • prevent violence;

  • address behavioral problems and manifestations;

💬The Domestic Violence Counseling Center – Over 20 Years of Protection, Support, and Change


The Center for Restorative Justice in the Ludogorie region has been protecting people from domestic violence for over 20 years. We support vulnerable individuals in reclaiming their safety and dignity. At our counseling center, you will find discretion, respect, and professional care. Whether you're looking for advice over the phone or a full recovery program, we are here to listen and support you—at any time.

The Non-Profit Association “Women's Alternative for Independence, Ethnic Tolerance and Association” (WAIETA) is a non-governmental organization dedicated to the social support, development, and protection of children, families, and vulnerable communities. Through its centers and team of specialists, the association offers a wide range of social services focused on prevention, support, rehabilitation, and integration.

Support Centers
The association operates through:

- Center for Community Support

Center for Social Rehabilitation and Integration Tatyana Arsova

The Center provides complex services for persons and children at risk, victims of violence, trafficking and other forms of vulnerability. All services are aimed at recovery, protection and social integration.

 

📌 Basic programs:

🔹 Rehabilitation and integration of people affected by violence and/or at risk

Crisis Centre for Victims of Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking

The Crisis Centre is a social service of residential type with a capacity of 8 places, where 24-hour care and monitoring of the needs of the clients is provided for a period of 1 to 6 months. The social service is based on social work and is aimed at supporting the assisted persons to carry out their daily activities and to integrate socially.

Users served in the social service:

Centre for Social Rehabilitation and Integration for Children and Youth

The Centre for Social Rehabilitation and Integration is a complex of hourly services with short-term /up to 6 months/ and long-term duration /up to 1 year/, aimed at supporting the individual development, maintenance and acquisition of new abilities and independence of children and young people with different types and degrees of disability, as well as support for people at risk through targeted activities for integration and prevention of social exclusion.

Centre for Social Rehabilitation and Integration for Adults and Children with Physical Disabilities

The service is intended for:

Counselling centre for victims of domestic violence

The Counselling Centre provides services and counselling to directly assist victims of domestic violence.

 

  • Community Support Centre - a complex of social services for children and families. Objectives:  
    o prevention of abandonment of children and their placement in specialized institutions
    o prevention of violence and school drop-out
    o deinstitutionalisation and reintegration of children
    o training in independent living skills and social integration of children from institutions
    o counselling and support for families at risk
    o assessment, training and support for foster and adoptive parents

Dignita Foundation is an organization working in the field of prevention of human trafficking and support for empowerment of victims. Dignita provides counselling to refugees in Bulgaria who:

  • Are at potential risk of trafficking or exploitation;
  • need counselling for a specific risk situation they or their relatives are in;
  • want to report a potential case of trafficking or exploitation;
  • want to be able to recognise potential risks and learn how to avoid trafficking or exploitation