The Tyumen Region will host the 22ndCongress of Commissioners for Children’s Rights in 2024, which was declared the Year of the Family by the President of Russia. The forum participants will focus entirely on the family, including issues of concern to parents and children, state support measures, and assistance for socially oriented non-profit organisations.
Maria Lvova-Belova was confident that decisions to be adopted at the congress together with specialised ministries and agencies, would facilitate legislative changes and be reflected in various nationwide programmes.
Today, the Tyumen Region is successfully implementing the strategic programmes of the Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Support Through Life and Children in the Family, that aim to assist families with disabled children and reduce the number of children in infant homes and their return to their families.
During the meeting with Alexander Moor, an agreement was reached that the region would become a training venue for rehabilitation of families with children whose parents were suffering from alcoholism and drug addiction. According to Maria Lvova-Belova, the Tyumen Region has accomplished important tasks in assisting such parents, and it is important to make use of this experience.
The Commissioner and the Governor also agreed to implement several initiatives proposed by participants in the Commissioner’s Day after Tomorrow project in the Krasnodon District and the city of Krasnodon in the Lugansk People’s Republic.
Additionally, Maria Lvova-Belova visited the Family regional rehabilitation centre for underage children in Tyumen. While there, she met with families who had taken under their guardianship orphans and children without parental support from the Lugansk People’s Republic in 2022. She also opened a daytime rehabilitation centre for children with disabilities.
The Tyumen Region is one of the seven pilot regions implementing the daytime centres project under Maria Lvova-Belova’s Support Through Life strategic programme. A daytime rehabilitation centre called Open the World for Me opened in the regional capital under the programme. The project is being implemented by the regional office of the National Organisation of Parents of Children with Disabilities and persons with disabilities aged 18 and over with mental and other disorders (whose interests have to be represented by adult guardians) in cooperation with the Department of Social Development of the Tyumen Region.
During their meeting, Maria Lvova-Belova and Alexander Moor agreed to establish a network of daytime rehabilitation centres all over the region.
Earlier, daytime rehabilitation centres for children with disabilities opened under the Commissioner’s programme Support Through Life in the Trans-Baikal Territory and the Kaluga Region. Similar centres will start operating soon in the Komi Republic, the Lugansk People’s Republic, and the Samara and Astrakhan regions.