Funded by Evangelisches Werk für Diakonie und Entwicklung e.V. for Brot für die Welt.

Implementation period: June 2023 - May 2026

Project goal: teaching children and adults techniques and strategies to overcome stress and preserve their physical and psychosocial health.

Project geography: Ukraine.

Project tasks:

  • development of safe behavior skills in children and their parents, through learning approaches to preserving their physical and psychosocial health and forming psychological stability;
  • sharing of social-preventive and psychosocial support programs, which are developed within the project, by institutions of the formal and informal sectors of education.

Main activities:

  • Conducting 60 cycles of sessions under the "Stepping Life" program at the all-Ukrainian level.

Optional course "Stepping life": an educational program for students of grades 9-10 on prevention of negative phenomena and support of psychosocial health of young people. The course is a complete, sequential and logically structured product, which consists of 33 sessions, which grouped in 15 topics. The training course allows participants to form scientifically based knowledge, skills and values that help to take responsibility for their health, well-being and form a sense of personal dignity, build safe interpersonal and sexual relationships, make the right decisions, as well as awareness of their rights and it's protection throughout life. Format of classes: offline and online.

  • Conducting 36 cycles of the "Circle of Power" program for adults, teenagers and children on the basis of 8 project sites.

"Circle of Power" program: a series of meetings for families affected by war. The training includes a cycle of 12 meetings which conducted separately for parents, teenagers aged 13-17 and younger children aged 10-12.

"Circle of Power" is a support and development group for adults and children. In conversation with other people we can understand what is happening to us better, organize our emotions, mourn losses and find new support. The basis of the new program is all the best of the effective from the Program "15" - relevant topics for children and adults, work with the family, professional trainers, meetings that don't resemble school. But the main thing we focused on, is the creation of a safe place where it is comfortable to acquire skills to regulate emotions, overcome stress, and pump up the muscles of vitality.

About 1,100 children and adults in Berdychiv, Lutsk, Sarny, Smila, Cherkasy and Chernivtsi have already become the first participants and judges of the program. Thanks to the feedback from participants, the Program is constantly developing and improving.

Contact person: Vitaliy Golovatyy, Project Manager.