CHILD PROTECTION/REPATRIATION

A boy under guar­di­an­ship in Ger­ma­ny is brought to Bul­ga­ria by his father during a visit cont­act. The legal guar­di­an files a miss­ing person’s report and sub­mits  a child wel­fa­re alert to the Bul­ga­ri­an aut­ho­ri­ties in who­se juris­dic­tion the father is pre­su­ma­b­ly stay­ing with the minor. After the boy is found, he can be tem­po­r­a­ri­ly pla­ced in a cri­sis cent­re. Cross Coun­try Sup­port coor­di­na­tes and faci­li­ta­tes the return of the boy in coope­ra­ti­on with the Ger­man and Bul­ga­ri­an aut­ho­ri­ties. The child is han­ded over to his guar­di­an in Germany.

RELOCATION OF A BABY

A Ger­man woman  gives birth to a child during  a trip to Cana­da. She lea­ves the hos­pi­tal and also the coun­try wit­hout the baby and returns to Ger­ma­ny. The child is tem­po­r­a­ri­ly pla­ced in a fos­ter fami­ly. The local social ser­vice would like to trans­fer the respon­si­bi­li­ty to Ger­ma­ny as soon as pos­si­ble. The Cana­di­an court can only revo­ke the guar­di­an­ship if the fol­low-up care is plan­ned in Ger­ma­ny and the Ger­man YWO has gua­ran­teed the imme­dia­te trans­fer of the child. The Ger­man YWO decla­res to take the baby into care as soon as it arri­ves in Ger­ma­ny but not to pick it up from Cana­da. Spe­cia­lists from Cross Coun­try Sup­port recei­ve the neces­sa­ry power of att­or­ney in Cana­da and bring the child to Germany. 

ALTERNATIVE CARE ABROAD

A Ger­man Youth Wel­fa­re aut­ho­ri­ty places a 14 year-old girl in an alter­na­ti­ve care pro­gram with a fos­ter fami­ly in Spain. The girl runs away and is picked up by the poli­ce in a bor­der town in Por­tu­gal whe­re she is  taken into tem­po­ra­ry care. Cont­act with the Por­tu­gue­se child pro­tec­tion aut­ho­ri­ties can be estab­lished. A return to Spain is no opti­on as the fos­ter fami­ly refu­ses to take the girl back. The Youth Wel­fa­re Office in Por­tu­gal is wil­ling to let the minor return to Ger­ma­ny under the con­di­ti­on that she gets picked up by Ger­man social workers. Cross Coun­try Sup­port takes over the com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on with the Por­tu­gue­se aut­ho­ri­ties on behalf of the Ger­man YWO and orga­ni­zes the return. After a per­so­nal mee­ting with the insti­tu­ti­on in Por­tu­gal, CCS employees bring the girl back to Ger­ma­ny and hand her over into the care of the respon­si­ble Youth Wel­fa­re Office.

FAMILY REUNIFICATION

A migra­ti­on coun­seling cen­ter in Ger­ma­ny is working with a fami­ly from Syria. While fle­e­ing their coun­try, the par­ents  had to lea­ve a small child with fri­ends in Tur­key. The fami­ly reuni­fi­ca­ti­on is suc­cessful­ly appli­ed for, but it is not pos­si­ble for the par­ents to lea­ve the coun­try and pick up the child. The­re is no one on the  Tur­ki­sh side eit­her who could accom­pa­ny it. Cross Coun­try Sup­port com­mu­ni­ca­tes with the invol­ved aut­ho­ri­ties and can final­ly take the child into their care and bring it to the par­ents in Ger­ma­ny.

SUPERVISED CONTACS

A pair of siblings was per­ma­nent­ly pla­ced in a fos­ter fami­ly when they were young. With the con­sent of the bio­lo­gi­cal mother, the fos­ter fami­ly later moves to Argen­ti­na and visits the mother once a year in Ger­ma­ny. As the child­ren get older, they want their mother to visit them in Argen­ti­na. A reuni­on is asso­cia­ted with uncer­tain­ties on both sides, also due to lan­guage bar­riers. The mother does­n’t dare to visit wit­hout pro­fes­sio­nal sup­port. After exten­si­ve preli­mi­na­ry dis­cus­sions with all tho­se invol­ved, employees from Cross Coun­try Sup­port accom­pa­ny the child’s mother on her visit to Argentina.

UNACOMPANIED MINORS

A 14 year old boy has come to Ger­ma­ny by hims­elf and was taken into care. He sta­tes to have pro­blems with his par­ents at home. After resol­ving their dif­fi­cul­ties trough the invol­ved social ser­vices he voices his wish­to return to Alba­nia. Cross Coun­try Sup­port gathers all rele­vant papers and takes the boy back into the care of his family.