The Social Activities and Practices Institute is a provider of social services in the municipality of Pazardzhik. This activity is long-term and continues for a period of 5 years, state-delegated through the municipality of Pazardzhik.

 Main goals are:

·        Improvement of the well-being of children in the municipality of Pazardzhik through introduction of quality services and support in a family or a close-to-family environment corresponding to children's needs.

·        Improvement of the quality and variety of community-based services delivered to children and families at risk and development of their efficiency and availability to people in need.

Sub-goals are:

·        Designing of a stable working model of inter-institutional cooperation.

·        Increase of the capacity and the number of services provided at the Complexes for Social Services to Children and Families in order to further guarantee satisfaction of the needs of the target groups.

·        Development of mobile social work  and not only of field work – on the streets and in the community, but also in the family and in the home of the users especially when clients are prevented in one way or another from coming to the complexes.

·        Increase of client participation in the decision making process concerning the kind of services needed and the appropriate way of providing those services.

·        Service modernization according to the dynamics of the needs of the people in the community.

·        Development of the capacity of local providers of services to families and children.

The Complex for Social Services to Children and Families continues to work and implement its activities in three basic sectors: 1) Sector "Family Support"; 2) Sector "Services and Support for the Child"; 3) Sector "Community Work". The sectors include activities regarding the following: prevention, re-integration and direct work with clients; services within the community, as well as empowering and mobilization of the local community for provision of services to children and families.   The main goal of the work of the Complex is to contribute to de-institutalization of the child care through provision of services to children in regular family or close-to family settings.

The whole methodology of the service provision in CSSCF – Pazardzhik is based on the principles of the Bulgarian and international child protection legislation, on the international standards for treating children at risk, as well as on the principles of contemporary social work.