Bucuresti, Romania

Tel No.: 0040732098627

E-mail: marian.mihaelacta@yahoo.com

Mihaela Marian
Education

1. Faculty of Social Science and Psychology – Romania “Spiru Haret” University

2008 – 2011 expected Bachelor in Sociology

2008–2011 expected Pedagogical module

2. 2009 TOT (Train the Trainers) in experiential learning – Stepping Stone Solutions

3. Pro Humanitas School – Romania

1998 – 2000 – Certificate in Social Work

4. Tomis High school – Foreign Languages

1990 – 1995 - High school – Foreign Languages

5. Freelance authorization on delivering trainings - January 2010

Work Experience
Ateliere Educative, Romania office
June 2010- present
Position held – president
Duties and responsibilities:
• strategic planification;
• project developing;
• partnership developing;
• fundraisin activities;
• research;
• counseling activities.

Alternativa 2003, Romania office

Feb 2009 – June 2010
Position held: Social Worker - Social Inclusion project developer

Duties and responsibilities:

• documentation activities;
• to organize educational activities;
• to inform and offer support for the children families;
• to organize socialization activities and social programs for youth and adults with autism and other
disabilities;
• to develop (by planning and evaluating the needs of beneficiaries) social, educational and social economy
projects(grants);
• to organize workshops for the parents of the beneficiaries and to provide training on different issues.

Private practice on Free Lancers

June 2001 – present
 Position held: Trainer & consultant on educational programs

• Duties and responsibilities:

• To evaluate the educational needs for children between 8 and 14 years;
• To develop the necessary methods based on cognitive and intellectual capacity of the child ’s assessment;
• To provide consultancy on educational and social projects for different beneficiaries as NGO, Volunteers,
youngsters and people who wants to be involved in social and educational projects or want to develop such
projects;
• To provide trainings on learning foreign languages for adults;
• To provide workshops and trainings on project management, on grant and evaluating social and
educational projects and services, on social development, on creativity and design for different groups of
age.

CARITAS Bucharest Association, Romania

April 2008 – January 2009

Position held: Social Worker

Project Down Syndrome Resource Centre

Duties and responsibilities:

• To plan and develop social and work projects for and with Down Syndrome children ;
• To offer consultancy for parents with children with Down Syndrome ;
• To recruit and train volunteers who wanted to work in social work projects;
• To offer consultancy for NGO that wanted to develop projects in benefit for Down Syndrome people;
• Promote non-discriminatory policies concerning the rights of young people with Down Syndrome for equal
opportunities to access a job, to dignity and privacy;
• Organize seminars with international communities leaders on Down Syndrome environment.

Feb 2005 – Nov 2006

Position held: Educational program coordinator STEP IN (a transnational project - Italy – France – Holland –
Belgium)

Duties and responsibilities:

• To plan, elaborate and implement a national educational package for roma children;
• To recruit and select the group of beneficiary;
• To prepare the evaluation, monitor and operational instruments;
• To prepare materials for transnational events( team work in Italy, France and Holland and final conference
in Belgium);
• To identify and select partners to implement the educational package).

Help and Development SPERANTE Foundation

Feb 2006 –Nov 2006
Position held: Program Director

Duties and responsibilities:

• To Coordinate the elderly club SPERANTE;
• Promote non-discriminatory policies concerning the rights of elderly people to live a life with dignity;
• Advocate for elderly people rights and inform present local authorities viable partnership in order to improve
the life of beneficiaries;
• Support the families of the beneficiaries by counseling and support groups;
• Organize social occupational events and workshops for elderly;
• To elaborate strategic and evaluating instruments in developing.

Asociatia Sindrom Down Bucuresti

Aug 2004 – Ian 2005
Position held: Program Educational Director

Duties and responsibilities:

• To elaborate social and educational programs for children with Down Syndrom;
• To offer consultancy for parents;
 • To organize fundraising events;
• To coordinate a team formed by 3 psichologists and 2 social workers;
• To develop and implement the PIELD – program ( Home therapies and educational activities for 20 children
with down syndrome aged between 3 and 10 years);
• To develop thematic seminars, trainings and workshops for parents, as needed (crisis situation
management, alternative therapies for improving life for their children, psychosocial communication
methods, etc.)

Association for Support Children with Physical Disabilities – ASCHFR, Romania

September 2001 – June 2004

Position held: Social – Educational Program Director

Duties and responsibilities:

• Coordinate, plan and elaborate strategies and design social, educational programs for youth and children
with physical disabilities such as:
• ”Public Campaign for promoting the disabled youth rights”
• “ I have the right to work” – the main goal was to develop an counseling office and to prepare in work
places, youngsters with disabilities;
• “ Let me take you an interview” – social news papers build up by youngsters with disabilities;
• „Help me to grow up” – ocupational therapy for severe handicaped children;
• „Organisational development”;
• „We can more” – advocacy campaign;
• Collaborate with local authorities for the projects implementation ( the City Hall, teachers, priests,
community social workers, general practitioners, NGO’s);
• Organize seminars with communities’ leaders on strategic planning, educational and social resources from
the society that could be used in developing programs and strategies to help and to improve life for disabled
people.

June 2001 – October 2001

Position held: Social Trainer

Duties and responsibilities:

• Develop curriculum for training materials and conduct training activities for students in social work and
psychology Universities who wanted to volunteer in disability field (strategic plans to understand the
different forms of disabilities, child development and methods to interrelation with people with disabilities,
the relationships and the dynamics in the family, communication process, the social needs for disabilities, to
do or not to do in disability field);
• Improve the educative process by organizing focus groups for disabled youth

June 1998 – June 2001

Position held: Personal assistant for an Autistic child
Duties and responsibilities:
• To assist an 8 years old autistic child.
• To plan the activities and program in order to be an advantage for the child.

Professional Development
2009
• CLINICA TERAPIAM and AITA - ABA techniques training;
• ATCA Association - Behavioral Therapy – techniques training;
• APEL Association Seminar – Disadvantage youth from protection system, what to do!;
• Amici dei Bambinii Association Seminar – methods of work and research results regarding disadvantage
youth;
• DGASPC (Local Authority) Professional development training;
• Princes Margaret Foundation – Social economy training;
• NEST – social economy training

2006
• International Institute of Ageing Malta – T economical and financial aspects of ageing – training
2004
• Belgium Social Work School in partner ships with Caritas Bucharest Association How to prevent domestic
violence

2002-2003
• National Center for Volunteering, Romania: Participant at the National Conference of Volunteerism in
Romania and facilitator for “Ways to recognize volunteers work” workshop

2000 -2002
• You too Foundation Ergo therapy training;
• Carmen Silva and You too Foundation! PECS Seminar;
• USA Ambasy - How to design a project training;
• AIESEC – Publick speacking training;
• AIESEC – Project Management training;
• Princes of Margareta Foundation – Project Management training

17 May – 29 July – 1999 English teachers Association

Advanced english course