Domnesti – Multifuctional Center
AMURT – Multifunctional Center recognizes that many homeless and runaway youth are the victims of neglect, abandonment, or severe family conflict. They can’t return to their families, but they are not yet equipped to live on their own.
Without someone to guide them on their path to self-sufficient adulthood, homeless youth risk becoming involved in dangerous lifestyles. Many use drugs or alcohol, or participate in survival sex and prostitution to stay fed and alive. Protecting young people from such fates and helping them thrive are one of the goals of AMURT – Multifunctional Center.
Many homeless youth have not learned basic skills that most adults, and even other youth, take for granted. Because most of them have not kept a job, vacuumed, ironed a shirt, cooked a meal, balanced an account, or solved an argument through compromise, so life skills training plays an important role in AMURT – Multifunctional Center.
The training has two programs. In “Transitional Living Program” the youths receive housing, motivational counseling, and life skills and career training. In a subsequent “Independent Living Program” outside the Center, they learn the real independent life in an apartment, holding a job, paying rent, and taking care of other related life matters by themselves.
All service users who complete the program will gain theoretical and practical knowledge about living independently, at least 60% will be capable to live independently and at least 30% will be capable to continue to live in shared apartments.
