General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection Arad*

The professional maternal assistant is the individual, certified according to the law, who, through the activity carried out at their home, ensures the upbringing, care, and education necessary for the harmonious development of the children they receive in foster care.

Who can be a professional maternal assistant?

A person who can be a professional maternal assistant:

-has a minimum of 10 grades

-is aged between 25 - 52 years, at the time of the evaluation

-has full legal capacity, and through their behavior in society, health status, and psychological profile, provides guarantees for correctly fulfilling the obligations of a parent concerning their own;

-has at their disposal a home that meets the needs for meal preparation, hygiene, education, and rest for its users, including those of the children who are to be received in foster care;

-has the consent of the entire family they live with, to receive and care for a child in their home;

-a person who carries out salaried activity, only on the condition of terminating the individual employment contract based on which that salaried activity is carried out

Who cannot be a professional maternal assistant

-a person who has suffered a conviction by a final court decision for intentionally committing a crime;

-parent deprived of parental rights or whose child has been declared abandoned by a final court decision

-a person suffering from chronic communicable diseases

How can you become a professional maternal assistant?

Persons residing in Arad County who are interested in becoming a professional maternal assistant should contact for more information the Case Management Service for Children – Maternal Assistance within the DGASPC Arad, str. Iustin Marsieu no. 22 A, ground floor, room 7, tel. 0257/250325 where they will submit an evaluation request accompanied by the documents mentioned below.

Following the submission of the evaluation request, the applicant's capacity to care for children will be evaluated. This evaluation can last a maximum of 90 days, and during this period the applicant and their family members will be involved in various activities.

The procedure for evaluating the applicant and their family consists of 2 stages:

-initial evaluation stage

-preparation stage

The certificate is issued by the Child Protection Commission Arad and is valid for 3 years.

The maternal assistant is the natural person, certified under the conditions of this ordinance, employed by the general directorate of social assistance and child protection, who ensures at their home or, as the case may be, at their residence the upbringing, care, and education of the child during the application of the special protection measure of placement, emergency placement for the child temporarily or permanently separated from their parents, or, as the case may be, during the respite period of another maternal assistant.

The applicant for maternal assistant Certificate submits the Evaluation Request for the issuance of the maternal assistant certificate (Annex 2 Form, O 1142/2024) at the institution's secretariat, where it is registered and the deputy general director for social assistance assigns it for evaluation according to the applicant's domicile.

To increase efficiency, each team of specialists is assigned a certain area of the county and municipality where they carry out their activity.

The evaluation of the applicant is carried out by a team of specialists consisting of a social worker and a psychologist and, if necessary, other specialists can be involved at the recommendation of the social worker appointed as case manager for the maternal assistant MCAM through the order of the deputy general director for social assistance, Case Manager Order for maternal assistant (DMC). The members of the evaluation team draw up the Final Evaluation Report (Annex 8 Form, O 1142/2024)

The case manager for maternal assistant takes over the application and file assigned by the deputy general director for social assistance and registers the documents in the department's Incoming-Outgoing Register (RII), after which drafts the Case Manager Order for maternal assistant and forwards it for approval.

After receiving the application and verifying the documents submitted in the file, the case manager for MA (MCAM) starts the evaluation process of the applicant and their family.