"COMPREHENSIVE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE AND FAMILY REHABILITATION OF CHILD ABUSE SURVIVORS"

City : Kaluga region

Non-profit organization: partnership of foster families "Kitezh"

Implementation period: May 2013 - May 2014

The Kitezh Nonprofit Foster Families Partnership has been rehabilitating abused children for over twenty years. Kitezh is a settlement where children (mostly adopted) and adults live in carved log houses in the middle of a Central Russian field, solve psychological problems together and achieve impressive results.

"EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO BE WHO THEY ARE"

City : Moscow

Non-profit organization: Charitable Foundation "Culture of Childhood"

Implementation period: May 2013 – February 2014

One feature of this project is that it is designed for ordinary average families who are not included in the "risk group". In such families, parents are not in a difficult life situation, they have a positive experience of child-parent relationships, sincerely love and rejoice in their child. However, even in such families, from time to time there are certain difficulties in relationships, sometimes leading to abuse. The Culture of Childhood Foundation works to help ordinary families cope with these difficulties. Another feature of the project "Everyone has the right to be the way he is" is the ongoing webinars, in which anyone from all over Russia can participate.

"MY CHILD'S WORLD"

City : Saint-Petersburg

Non-profit organization: Podsolnukh Parent Center

Implementation period: July 2013 - May 2014

For many years, the Podsolnukh Parental Center has been successfully working with families of graduates of orphanages, including correctional ones. In such families, the parents themselves went through the horrors of abuse in the boarding school, which, of course, left psychological trauma. Faced with difficulties in raising children, such parents feel confused, because they do not have their own positive experience of raising in a family and independently overcoming life crises. In situations of stress, parents enter into a destructive relationship with their children, do not ask for help, emotionally isolate themselves and do not take on an adult parental role. Thus, in order to establish parent-child relationships in such families, the key factor is therapeutic work with parents,

"PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSISTANCE TO CHILDREN OF PRIMARY SCHOOL AGE FROM FOSTER FAMILIES WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED THE TRAUMA OF ABUSE"

City : Rostov-on-Don

Municipal organization: Diagnostic and Counseling Center of the city of Rostov-on-Don

Implementation period: June 2013 – June 2014

The problem of child abuse in Russia is very acute. Many children in Russian families go through a hell of beatings and aggression. Moreover, as a rule, they are beaten by those people who should protect, support and love - parents. When the situation goes too far, social protection officers remove children from the family and send them to orphanages. After that, the child can no longer cope with the psychological trauma he has received. In order to grow up a healthy and harmonious personality, he must undergo a serious and complete rehabilitation. Such rehabilitation is carried out by the Center for Diagnostics and Counseling of the city of Rostov-on-Don, in particular, thanks to the financing of the “Responsible for the Future” foundation.

"LET'S LIVE IN PEACE"

City : Moscow

State institution: secondary school No. 1321 "Ark"

Implementation period: May 2013 - May 2014

Let's live together - this is not only the famous call of the cat Leopold, but also the project of the inclusive school No. 1321 "Ark". An inclusive school is a place where ordinary children and children with special needs learn about the world together. Unfortunately, both those and others from time to time have difficulties in relationships with their parents. The Let's Live Together project, funded by the Responsible for the Future Foundation, exists to prevent such problems from appearing.

"MATURE PARENTING"

City : St. Petersburg

Non-profit organization: St. Petersburg Institute of Early Intervention

Implementation period: June 2013 - May 2014

The Mature Parenthood project is implemented by the Early Intervention Institute, a non-profit organization that helps children with disabilities develop and become full members of society. As part of the Mature Parenthood project, the Institute's specialists work with mothers of children with disabilities to help them better understand their child in order to prevent abuse and improve parent-child relationships.