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TCF is now ready to offer its Christmas cards to all of you. Please order you cards from TCF and not only send your festive messages to your friends, colleagues and clients, but also support the vital work with single-parent and large families, families with disabled members and other families in difficult life situation. You can choose to buy exclusive rights for the design or order the cards printed especially for you. Please choose your favourite design in the gallery and get in touch to place an order. We look forward to hear from you soon.

Dear all, 2018 is a year of the dog (in Chinese calendar) and our Warmhearted workshop has prepared festive gifts for you - dog decorations for your Christmas trees. We have a variety of colours and breeds in stock, so you can buy one for your friends and family as they like it. Please call us to place an order. The Help yourselves projects is generously supported by CatFoundation and CAF Russia.

On the 10-11 October we ran the first seminar of the new programme. The seminar was co-organised by TCF, Contact and Semya - the unity in practice. We are pleased to say that the number of our partner organisations as well as participants at the events has grown in 2017 by 200%. This seminar featured participants from 6 Moscow-based schools and two other regions of Russia - all new to our programme. The seminar was focused on the issues of preventive work with families and how it is different from working with issues where children's rights have already been violated. What's to come: advisory support to all specialists, including seminars with examples of particularly difficult cases, consulting and informational support. The next seminar is planned for mid-November. More to follow.

On the 23rd of October our first interdisciplinary council took lace at the Science centre for mental health of children and young people. Specialists from Semya, Contact and TCF have taken part in this first meeting. This was the foundational meeting, it was important to understand the procedures, presentation of cases and development of recommendations for work. Director of the Science centre Bebchuk acted as a moderator. The monthly schedule has been developed for future events. The next meeting will also include our colleagues from partner schools. Now we can definitely say that we are one step closer to providing better support to children and young people with mental health issues.

On the 25th October TCF has run a seminar for the specialists of the social and psychological service of the school 518. A lot of questions have been asked and the ranking order of the issues to work on has been compiled. Number one remains on case work with the families, number two is communication skills and number three is inter-sector and inter-agency cooperation. Once again we have been reassured that it's more effective to work together as partners. We would like to especially thank the regional public organisation for support to children with autism sector disorder Contact. We look forward to continue working with you in the future.

On the 28th August TCF took part in the Round table on preventing social disadvantage of families in the framework of the territory of cooperation series. Socially-oriented NGOs and state educational institutions took part in this Round table. The discussion focused on joint efforts in helping disadvantaged families with children and the formation of the portal with information on family problems. Both positive and negative sides of this idea were discussed at the meeting. The meeting concluded with identifying further steps for developing partnership of state and non-state social services providers. The next event is planned in the near future. This project is being funded by the subsidy from the Moscow government.

On the 29th of August the programme director of Taganka children's fund Sergey Bodrov took part in the expert meeting Social Technologies for developing communities: from local practices to cross-country roll-out. There are a lot of innovative social techniques that unfortunately do not receive enough recognition and end their life-cycle wit the original project. The meeting focused on opportunities for overcoming such tendencies. Sergey Bodrov has presented the preventive techniques of work with disadvantaged families developed in cooperation with Tomsk state university.

Taganka children's fund invites you to join our classes: 1. Early development classes for children of 4-6 years old. 2. Theatre workshop of Irina Denisova "On the wings of the swallow" 3. Arts for children between 5 and 16 years olf 4. Crafts and beadweaving for the children between 5 and 16 years old 5. Wood carving "Forgotten skills" for children from 13 years old 6. English language for beginners: 5-7 y.o. 7. English language for schoolchildren: 10-14 y.o. 8. School for joy with Ekaterina Avdotchenkova: 6+ y.o. 9. Playing together with mom: developing games for children 18 months-3 y.o. 10. Speech therapy classes 11. Inclusive theatre company Taganka Shed for children with and without disabilities from 6 to 18 y.o. 12. Family and parental club 13. Social rehabilitation group Rostochek for young people with disabilities 14. Warmhearted workshop: skills in producing souvenirs (4 classes once a week) 15. Celebrating your children's birthdays.

Taganka children's fund is pleased to invite you to the Open Day on the 1st September from 4 ill 6pm at Marksistsky per. 3. You are welcome to try different activities, talk to the teachers, find out about schedule for classes and choose the ones which fit your interests best, let us know about the new ideas and most importantly have a fun and interesting time! We look forward to see you there!

The Round table will take place on the 28th August 2017 at Korovy val 3 bld 5. Agenda includes: -New techniques of tackling social disadvantage of families -Development of the national portal with information from a selection of organisations working with families in difficult life situation in order to create the specialist community, develop resources, support professionals in the social sphere and help create social elevators - Uniting resources of state and non-state providers of the social services