With the highly qualified specialists available who are helping us to implement our activities, the contacts and understanding that we benefit from, the association is seen as a perspective and desired organization for distribution of knowledge, experience and generating new ideas in the field of prevention of violence in the society and development of an integrated system for raising the education of children and youngsters at risk. Except for the expansion of the organization, our attention has to be seriously focused on provision of financial resources for implementing the activities of the association. In perspective, in order to achieve more successful implementation and multiplication of the effect of our activity, we intend to implement multiple different projects in many towns and regions in Bulgaria as well as to implement transboundary projects for exchange of experience, know-how and good practices on working with children, youngsters, families and the civil society.
The responsible and businesslike attitude of our team and the readiness for implementation of innovative ideas related to working in schools, centers for community support, daily centers for support and consultation, youth centers help us face the challenges and implementing successful activities for public benefit.
In 2012 Association “SPOC” applied for a grant for a project under the Operational Program “Human Resource Development”, Without borders – Component I – Phase 2, “The surviving is not just luck – innovative program for firms, people with disabilities and citizens” – at the moment we are implementing this project under Contract BG051PO001-7.0.07-112.
Albena Drobachka
Chairwoman of the Association “Sustainability for Progressive and Open Communication”
Yuri Katsarov
Clinical psychologist, head of the “Consultative activity” department at the PIC on drug addiction problems
Assoc. Prof. Hristo Hinkov
Psychiatrist, Director of the “National Center for Public Health and Analysis”
PhD Vyara Gancheva
Sociologist, Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge – BAS
Elka Bozhkova
Clinical psychologist, UH “Alexandrovska”, Psychiatric clinic – psychotherapist
Dr. Cvetelina Petkova
Psychiatrist, mental health center, director of the Center for Drug Addictions at the Metropolitan Municipality