A Round Table on the topic "Consequences of the Institutional Care for Small Children and Their Placement Outside Institutions" took place on February 14th, 2012 at the French Embassy in Sofia, organised by UNICEF Bulgaria with the help of the Regional Office of UNICEF in Geneva.

Participants in the Round Table were representatives of State structures, of NGOs, as well as experts in the sphere of early child development. A special guest of the forum was Professor Boris Sirulnik, neuropsychologist, a lecturer in the University of Tulon, France, one of the inventors of the Resilience Approach, a scientist and writer of international recognition. He talked about the huge importance of the relationship that babies have with an adult, usually the mother, about the ability of the child to build relationships with others and to cope with difficulties in his/her life.

Associate Professor Nelly Petrova, a Chairperson of the MB of SAPI, presented the support that the children between 0-3 years receive when placed in foster care, the advancement that is obvious and substantial in their motor system, emotional, and cognitive development, as well as of the need to assist the foster family in the difficult task of taking good care of a child that has lived been suffering. The presentation was based ion the experience of SAPI and its partnership with UNICEF, the Municipality of Shoumen and the other participants in the project "Family for Every Child", within the frameworks of which about 50 children from the HCDPC in Shoumen have been placed in foster families.