young families

The Young Families Program aids young families of orphanage graduates for the prevention of social orphanhood, family protection and prevention of crisis situations, providing material, social and psychological support to both the parents and their children.

 

Purpose: to provide psychological, social, medical, and material support to graduates of orphanages and other types of alternative care who now have their own families, helping them form life skills that allow them to be responsible husbands, wives, and caring parents; to create conditions for protection of the family and preventing internal crisis situations.

 

Program Objectives:

 

- social support-training in necessary social skills, child care, and working with government organizations;

 

- prevention of abortions and child abandonment;

 

- emotional and psychological assistance to the family (interpersonal relations, individual consultations and work with the family, correction of marital and child-parent relations);

 

- training in employment skills for the purpose of stable financial support of the family;

 

- providing financial support to young families in a crisis situations.

 

In 2019, 16 families (in which one or both parents are graduates of orphanages) in the Vladimir and Kostroma regions were participants of the program. The work was carried out in 4 main areas: 1) individual counseling of families on social, psychological and pedagogical issues; 2) conducting training seminars and workshops on child rearing, interpersonal communication, household management, professional self-motivation, and healthy lifestyles; 3) financial support in crisis situations; 4) setting up entertainment events for young families in order to teach the spouses to spend their free time together appropriately.