Project goals
With the aim of continuing the process of professional capacity-building for Chechen psychologists, and in the framework of its plan of action for psychosocial assistance, UNICEF holds discussions with NAN, the Russian Charitable Foundation: the exchange focused on the forthcoming launch of Stage II of UNICEF’s Psychosocial Baseline Study in Chechnya. Meanwhile, UNICEF discusses with the ‘Israel Trauma Coalition/Herzog Hospital’ the organization of additional trauma counseling training for a group of child psychologists from Chechnya.
UNICEF also started the preparation for the first meeting of the Psychosocial Steering Committee aimed at developing a framework to coordinate the provision of psychosocial assistance to conflict-affected children and women in Chechnya. High-ranking Government officials, including the Deputy Prime Minister as well as the Ministers of Education, Health and Labour and Social Development, are expected to be among the participants at the meeting, which will be facilitated by UNICEF (with external consultants from Israel, Saint Petersburg and Stavropol) in mid-March. |
