The Community Support Centre is a structure integrated within the Complex for Social Services for Children and Families. Main priority in the work of the specialized team is prevention of abandonment, deviation in behavior, violence. Services for children at risk in the community as well as children in families are provided at the Centre. All the parents that need to receive information or support in terms of their children’s upbringing may use the services provided in the “Working with the families” sector. The social work with children is realized within the sector “Working with children at institutions”. There is also a mobile team at the Community Support Centre. It works at the territory of the whole municipality in few directions: reaching the community and identifying children and families at risk; creating a trustworthy contact; directing them to the respective authorities for protection and help.              
The following services are provided at the Centre:

• Social consultations – support for building independency skills and creating social network; planning and developing different activities towards raising the social competency of the clients;
• Psychological consultations – providing specialized consultative support which aims developing learning skills, making decisions and fulfilling plans; methods from the cognitive-behavior and the psychoanalytic theories are practiced;  
• Legal consultations – providing legal support to the clients by an lawyer;
• Family counseling – providing support in the family relationships. Specially developed counseling programs are used.
• Mediation activities – providing with information or co-operation through direct social, family or labor mediation; filling of documentation forms, support with authorities; support with misunderstandings with family members;         
• Accompanying- an activity that is part of the process of empowering during which the first contacts with organizations and authorities are difficult; the terms, the way, the resources and the continuity of the accompanying activity are defined specifically in each case;  
• Providing material support – material support is provided to people in real need according to the specific goals of the intervention plan;             
• Educational support – motivation and support to the school drop-outs; prevention activities against students dropping out;     
• Social activities with children form specialized institutions – writing individual assessments; social work towards re-integration and foster care; alternative services development and securing the access to them – clubs of interests, etc. organizing activities for including institutionalized children in other therapeutic, rehabilitative, social or educational programs; support for children in their school inclusion process;                        
  The following clubs of interests are organized for the children with mental disabilities: “Art atelier”, “Psychomotor”, “Discoverer”, “Hippo therapy”. For children deprived of parental care: “Man and nature”, “Culture”, “Discoverer”. For children above the age of 11 the following clubs are offered: “Fitness” and “Computers”.
• Social work with families at risk- informing high risk communities about reproductive health, methods of contraception, sexually transmitted diseases and family planning; discussing the need of a child to be raised at home; developing communication skills, budgeting skills; identifying children and families at high risk through outreach work; referring signals to the Child Protection Department; providing social services within the community – individual work (consulting, mediation activities, accompanying, material support); group programs (parental skills training and baby care/ pregnant women and young mothers);            
• Social work with children at risk – the work is group or individual according to needs assessment of the child. Mainly, the children are with anti-social and violent behavior and have been involved in activities against law.      The psychoanalytical approach is the main one in the work with them. A space where the children have the opportunity to express their selves is secured during the working process;

The Community Support Centre has the willingness, if a specific target group is available, to mobilize resources and to meet arisen needs through providing appropriate services.