The maternal assistant is the natural person, certified under the law, employed by DGASPC Alba, who cares for at their own home the child/children from the protection system, whom they receive with the protective measure-placement. Persons with legal and actual domicile in Alba county, interested in becoming maternal assistants, submit to the headquarters of the General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection Alba located in Alba Iulia, Bld. 1 Decembrie 1918, no. 68, an evaluation request and the documents mentioned below. The request must mandatorily mention the number of children for whom the applicant considers they can simultaneously ensure optimal care conditions, their age group and gender, availability to care for children with disabilities/handicaps, infected with HIV or sick with AIDS. The request will include the applicant's Curriculum Vitae as well as the reasons for wishing to become a professional maternal assistant. The professional maternal assistant certificate is issued by the Child Protection Commission Alba and is valid for 3 years. The employment of the maternal assistant, therefore the conclusion of the employment contract, takes place from the moment they receive with a protective measure the child/children in difficulty.