Work with families and children
Resilience: supporting mental health in communities
Resilience Centers are friendly spaces where everyone in the community can receive free psychosocial support, participate in mutual aid groups, and group activities.
«Resilience is not an innate skill. It can and should be «trained» and developed. It is crucial in today's Ukrainian realities of uncertainty and stress to be able to adapt to new circumstances, overcome difficulties and maintain mental well-being», says Oleg Oliynyk, Head of Resilience Building.
The centers' specialists will help:
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Learn to recover from stress
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Understand and cope with emotions
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Develop stress resistance skills
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Prevent psychological trauma
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Improve mental well-being
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Assist in solving life difficulties.
All community residents, regardless of age, gender or social status, can receive assistance at the Resilience Centers.
Resilience Centers offer a wide range of services, including:
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Individual and family counseling with psychologists and social workers
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Group sessions on stress resistance development, emotion management, trauma overcoming, etc.
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Training on first aid
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Family space: organization of activities and activities for children, parental training, family events
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Mutual aid groups
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Involvement of volunteers.
The Resilience Program is implemented by the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine with the support of the All-Ukrainian Mental Health Program «Are You OK?» of First Lady Olena Zelenska.
Minimum package of integrated social services
for families with children
The initiative aims to provide sustainable services of the minimum package of integrated social services to further develop standards for these services at the state level.
In 6 communities of Chernihiv Oblast, our organization is implementing the UNICEF in Ukraine project «Minimum Package of Integrated Social Services for Families with Children».
The Ukrainian Education Platform is part of a consortium of organizations implementing this project in the country. In particular, we are implementing it together with CSO «Ukrainian Child Rights Network», CO «Charitable Foundation «SOS Children's Villages» Ukraine», and NGO «Social Synergy» in 28 communities of Ukraine.
The «Minimum Package of Integrated Social Services for Families with Children» proposes the development and implementation of, for example, such services as social support for alternative forms of fostering (Foster Care, Guardianship, Care); daycare for children; crisis intervention. It also strengthens the development of social services: mediation, parental competence development, early intervention, and psychosocial support.
The project is financially supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development through the German Development Bank (KFW).
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Good Neighbour
The project works for people in crisis, including those affected by full-scale war. It also helps families improve their living conditions and is a response to the deinstitutionalization reform. Since the project's inception, about 100 families and almost 200 children have already received help and support from Good Neighbour.
The main idea of the project is to establish communication with families in crisis, affected by the war so that they do not end up in social isolation and difficult life circumstances.
With this project, we are trying to prevent the institutionalization of children (getting children into institutional care institutions) and help parents create safe and comfortable conditions for their children. We search for resources and strengthen the family with the help of a volunteer — a good neighbor.
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24 volunteers have been trained
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24 families in which are raised
80 children, received support
Regions in which volunteers work using the Good Neighbor program technology:
Chernihiv city, Smila city and Cherkasy region, Dnipro city, Marhanets city (Dnipropetrovsk region), Kropyvnytskyi city, Nyzhniv village (Ivano-Frankivsk region)
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Children's spaces
Project goal: Creating a child-friendly environment for children (adolescents, youth), where various services, services and formative activities could be combined for the successful socialization of children in society (community).
The main idea is to create children's spaces in churches, NGOs, and CCCs. Many stakeholders are trying to create children's spaces for various reasons (localization of a large number of children in one environment, creation of a safe space for children to minimize the impact of traumatic experiences, provision of a training component in online education, non-formal education, psychosocial work).
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Children's spaces are a form of work that provides quick access to the child and, through them, to the family. In humanitarian response, children's spaces are often places where social services are provided (information, counseling, daycare, social support, etc.).
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A total of 79 613 children received psychosocial support and non-formal education services
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756 social work specialists were engaged (comprehensive training program to improve the competencies of specialists working with children)
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Humanitarian aid: 46 860 people received stationery, clothing, hygiene and recreation kits
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Case management services: 1 213 families received comprehensive case management for families in difficult life circumstances
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Psychological support for 1 122 mothers and children
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Methodological recommendations for creating spaces developed
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204 families were involved and provided with needs assessment and services
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1 537 people were reached, including
857 adults (344 men/513 women) and
680 children (330 boys/350 girls)
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7 150 services were provided for children and parents in total
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104 social tutoring sessions for children of senior school age
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Domivka
Project goal: To provide people from the affected communities with comfortable living and development conditions in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia, and Ternopil regions, as well as to help local civil society activists respond to wartime emergencies and establish cooperation between the community, government, and business, and facilitate the adaptation of shelter residents in host communities.
The main idea of the project is to provide better living conditions for people with children; create housing banks from a database of places where people from affected communities can move in; ensure the operation of hotlines that provide daily information support on finding a place to live for people from affected communities; and integrate people from affected communities into new communities as full-fledged residents.
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Good community
A training and grant project that aims to raise awareness of initiative groups of territorial communities on the procedure for determining the needs of the community population for social services, planning and development of social services.
Project goal: To strengthen the capacity of territorial communities to develop a social service delivery system by providing initiative groups with effective tools for analyzing, planning, and developing social services, as well as to preserve family integrity and respect the basic right of children to grow up in a family environment. social services, planning and development of social services.
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8 hromadas received training
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3 communities received grants
(Kolomyia, Kamianka-Buzka, Berezhany)
Civic education
Responsible citizenship
Project goal: To foster the growth of a new generation of responsible citizens who come from the grassroots of politically literate citizenship by providing education and supporting their projects with mini-grants.
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The project covers such target audiences as young people who want to create active civic youth centers, volunteers in small towns who want to learn how to effectively cooperate/propagate the interests of local authorities in relation to community needs, active civic educators who understand the beneficial impact of civic education for all ages, as well as city residents who are interested in participating in advocacy and may be interested in forming self-organized groups of residents (SOBPs), as provided for by Ukrainian legislation.
Education in the de-occupied territories
Project goal: To provide offline access to educational services for children of different age groups from the de-occupied and frontline territories of the Kharkiv region. This will give social cohesion, reduce the effects of isolation, shape personal development, and increase knowledge of basic subjects of secondary education.
Educational centers based on equipped hubs and mobile schools, where teachers will travel to neighboring communities (settlements and villages) and conduct educational activities. Formal out-of-school education services will be available to children in grades 1-7, aged 6-13, and non-formal education services (special courses) will be available to children aged 6-13 and young people aged 14-16.
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The project «Mobile Schools of Conscious Citizenship» covered 9 villages in Kharkiv region: Ivanchukivka, Lypchanivka, Vyshneva, Bezruky, Staryi Merchyk, Khroly, Izum, Dergachi, Zolochiv
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603 children took part in the project
in total
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