DTC's mission is to protect the rights of children, and to provide children and families in difficult life situations with quality social, medical, and psychological support. DTC's strategic priorities include: - Provision of comprehensive social, medical and psychological services to victims of child abuse and women exposed to domestic violence; - Promotion of family-based care for children who lost parental support through reunification of birth families, training of potential foster parents, and psychosocial assistance to newly formed foster families; - Implementation of prevention activities to ensure zero new cases of HIV among women, children and adolescents; - Implementation of activities to ensure increased involvement of fathers in child care and development to prevent family disadvantages; - Dissemination of effective social work technologies through government and NGO social service providers of St. Petersburg and other regions of Russia.