The mission of the "Oradea Day Care Center" service is to prevent the abandonment and institutionalization of children from families residing in the Oradea municipality who are in situations of social risk, by providing daytime activities of care, education, recreation, socialization, counseling, development of independent living skills, school and professional orientation.

Beneficiaries of the services offered by the "Day Care Center" are:

- School-age children enrolled in mainstream education and the parents of children who receive benefits and services aimed at preventing their separation;

- Children who have benefited from a special protection measure and have been reintegrated into their family;

- Children who benefit from a special protection measure;

- Children whose parents benefit from a social protection measure;​

- Children in situations of difficulty or at risk of social exclusion (from large families, single-parent families, disorganized families, with a low level of education), with the possibility of school and family abandonment.

Eligibility criteria for admission to the center:

- to be temporarily without income or to earn low income, insufficient to support themselves and to meet daily living needs;

- there is a risk of institutionalization of the children;

- to be in a situation at risk of family and school abandonment;

- to be socially assisted;

- to be in a situation of vulnerability / difficulty, for which measures of support and assistance from the local community are needed (an obvious disproportion between the level of financial / material resources and the real needs of the family; serious medical situations in the beneficiary's family affecting the work capacity of their legal representatives; possibility of worsening family problems of a housing nature, etc.).