48 regarding the prohibition and prevention of torture; compliance with minimum quality standards; aspects found by the NPM during the visits; recommendations made to the visited units and their implementation. The organized events thus had the role of training the staff members who carry out their activity in places where people are deprived of their liberty. ► Awareness raising activities organized during 2019 Were carried out at: ● The General Directorates for Social Assistance and Child Protection (Iași, Vrancea, Caraș-Severin, Arad, Făgăraș); ● penitentiaries (Iași Penitentiary, Târgu-Ocna Educational Center, Craiova Detention Center, Timișoara Penitentiary, Deva Penitentiary, Aiud Penitentiary, Drobeta-Turnu-Severin Penitentiary, Mioveni Penitentiary); ● homes for the elderly ("Inocențiu M. Klein" Timișoara Home for the Elderly); ● psychiatric hospitals (Drăgoești Psychiatry Hospital); ● centers for adults with disabilities (the Assistance and Care Center "Sfânta Față a Domnului Nostru Isus Christos", the Măicănești Neuropsychiatric Recovery and Rehabilitation Center, the Center for Specialized Counseling and Assistance for People with Autism Spectrum Disorders Craiova Center and Neuropsychiatric Recovery and Rehabilitation Center Synersig); ● detention and preventive arrest centers – CRAP (Sibiu, Alba, Institute for Public Order Studies); ● Ilfov County Council; ● The National College of Social Workers in Romania; ● University of Bucharest – Faculty of Sociology and Social Assistance; ● Archdiocese of Bucharest, Social-Philanthropic and Missionary Sector; ● Prahova branch of CNASR. ►There were meetings with non-governmental organizations (Romanian Association of Forensic Psychiatry Iași, GRADO, ANAIS, FACIAS, Organization for Human Rights - Craiova Regional Branch) and participation in conferences organized by these NGOs: ● Conference on the theme Progress in the social reintegration of persons deprived of liberty, organized by GRADO in partnership with the Faculty of Social Assistance of the University of Bucharest; ● Accommodation of minors in public custody, organized by the Jesuit Refugee Service in Romania; ● The conditions of detention in the penitentiaries and the arrest centers in Romania, two years after the conviction at the ECHR in the pilot case Rezmiveș and others vs. Romania (April 25, 2017), organized by APADOR-CH; ● Alternatives to the placement of migrant children in the public custody in the context of asylum and return, organized by the Terre des Hommes Romania Foundation. ►There were meetings with external collaborators (doctors, psychologists) regarding the activity of monitoring the places of detention. ► Workshops for the training of the personnel of the units subject to NMP monitoring were organized (Workshop on Investigation, Analysis, Reporting of Traumatic Marks, CPT practice, SPT, Istanbul Protocol, at the headquarters of the Olt County Police Inspectorate and Workshop on Compliance with the Standards on ensuring the quality of life of institutionalized persons – duties and powers of the NPM, Dissemination of the Annual NPM Report, at the Community Services Complex for the Child in Difficulty "Sfinții Constantin și Elena" Pitesti). Relevant information about NPM activity in 2019 ►In 2019, the project initiated by the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) based in Geneva was implemented, with the theme Strengthening the capacities of the NPM (in Romania) to monitor psychiatric institutions, funded by the OPCAT Special Fund. The project included 4 activities: 1. workshop on the monitoring of psychiatric institutions, organized in Bucharest, between May 13 and May 16, 2019; PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE ANNUAL REPORT 2019