There are no other children in peacetime, especially there are no strangers during the war - Elena Zelensk in Kharkiv region

The first lady of Ukraine Olena Zelensk made a working trip to Kharkiv region. The president's wife visited the Children's Multifunctional Center "Joint" from UNICEF, which is created with the assistance of the Department of Education of Kharkiv Region. The purpose of the center is to provide comprehensive support for children and their families. The center will offer various services, including psychosocial assistance, training, psychological counseling.

This will work a multimedia studio with online lessons for children who need technical support in learning, co-working for children and adults. Thus, all basic UNICEF services and projects are first collected on one location. “An important focus of the center is psychological support. It helps children and adults overcome the stress of war, understand relationships, feelings, understand themselves and others. Having visited the center, she again made sure that the future is in complexity.

When both training, rest, and help - everything works better together, ”the first lady said. During the trip, the President's wife also visited the Kharkiv Regional Center for Psychological Assistance and got acquainted with the course of the creation of the Regional Psychological Service.

It operates through the cooperation of the Kharkiv Regional Center for Social Services, because the Revival of Communities, NGO "Barrierity" and the Center for Security and Public Studies of the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" in partnership with the Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories President of Ukraine for the creation of the All -Ukrainian Mental Health Program. The Partnership for Strong Ukraine Foundation provides financial support.

Since May, the service has been provided by the community revival. Since March this year, experts of the regional psychological service have made 88 trips to the communities of Kharkiv region, 1154 persons have asked for psychological assistance or psychosocial support, 680 individual and 76 group sessions were held. “The next goal is to create district psychological assistance centers and psychological consultations in each community.

This is the embodiment of the All -Ukrainian Mental Health Program, which we implement in the country: that help is as close as possible and even to come to those who will never decide to visit the psychologist first, but it needs it, ”Olena Zelenska said. In addition, the President's wife participated in a roundtable on the state "On the state of introduction of family forms of education in Kharkiv region", where a program of support for family forms of education was presented.