TALLINN CHILDREN’S HOME

Address of the organisation:

Vana-Pärnu mnt 9a, 11614 Tallinn, Estonia

Contact person:

Margit Randaru

margit.randaru@tallinnalastekodu.ee

About the organisation

Tallinn Children’s Home was established 01.01.2001 when five large orphanages were merged into one organization. The first family home started at the end of 2001 in the current Pähkli unit. The relocation of the former large orphanages to family houses and the transition into the family home system took place in 2011-2019.

Tallinn Children’s Home is administered by city of Tallinn and provides services mainly to the residents of Tallinn. Tallinn Children’s Home provides today with circa 200 employees eight different services for families and children in 15 addresses around Tallinn. In one year, different services are provided to ca 500 children/young people/families.

Our services:

• Alternative care service (family homes and substitute home)

• Continued care service

• Safe house service for mothers with children

• Safe house service for small children

• Childcare service for children with severe or profound disability

• Supporting services for foster families and adoptive families

• Rehabilitation services

• 24-hour special care service

Our purpose:

With a professional and dedicated team, we create a homely, safe and developing environment where every person feels valued. Every child and young person has safe and supportive relationships.

Our vision is to be positively perceived by society, leading organisation in the field of alternative care and a competence centre for parents.

Our core values are caringness, openness, competency, reliability.

Our main service is alternative care service which is a social service organized by a local authority with the aim:

• to ensure the long- or short-term well-being and rights of a child

• to ensure family-like living conditions for the satisfaction of the basic needs of the child

• to create a secure physical and social environment promoting child’s development

• to prepare the child for coping in accordance with his or her abilities as an adult.

Tallinn Children’s Home has 31 alternative care groups:

• 4 substitute home groups for severely disabled children in Mustamäe unit

• 27 family homes in 10 different locations across Tallinn (family-like alternative care service in a group with up to six children and up to three employees – family parents who live with children.