Joining forces with academia to tackle burning social issues

“Small” civil
society organizations and the “Big” Tomsk state university have
discovered how they can be useful for one another so that there were
more happy families and children in our country and so that the term
“family with risk of social orphanhood” could be heard rarer.
On Friday, 13th November 2015, the Programme director of TCF Sergey
Borzov has met the Principal of the Tomsk state university, one of the
10 best universities of Russia. The meeting saw discussion of
cooperation between the University and several civil organizations,
including the National foundation for protection of children from abuse
(Moscow), Regional centre for practical psychology and social work
Vector (Perm), charitable foundation “New Development” (Tomsk) and
Taganka children’s fund (Moscow). In spite of the superstitious date of
the meeting, it went really well. Over 10 steps for mutually-beneficial
cooperation have been identified to take forward: from the research
programmes of immediate interest to improvement of procedures of
providing support to children and families in difficult life situations.