Five hundred refugee parents and children from Ukraine who settled in Chisinau, Causeni and Stefan Voda districts will participate in a parenting program. To this end, 10 trainers from the aforementioned regions are trained on November 17-18 in the implementation of the “Parenting pilot program for displaced families from Ukraine” to support refugee parents (especially mothers) from Ukraine.
Irina Spivacenco, project manager, NGO “Partnerships for Every Child” /P4EC/ stated “this program represents a two-day course, structured in 4 sessions with parents, including joint parent-child sessions, which will help reduce stress and ensure the well-being of parents, encourage responsive and sensitive parenting, as well as support families to strengthen their relationships and spend more time together, in an encouraging and fun environment.”
Diana Prisacaru, project coordinator from the Alliance of Active NGOs in the Field of Social Protection of Children and Families /ASPCF/ who was present at the opening of the event, stressed the importance of supporting and ensuring the well-being of parents and children in crisis by conducting parenting programs that will help them to overcome stressful situations more easily and maintain a good relationship with their children.
The parenting program for displaced families from Ukraine includes activities that parents can try at home, and encourages the participants to keep in touch with each other, between the sessions and after completion to create a self-support group, etc.
The program will be delivered in the Republic of Moldova until June 2024 and will include 250 parents and 250 children from the three regions listed above.
The training is carried out within the project “Integrated humanitarian response in Ukraine, Poland, Moldova and Romania for Ukrainians and third-country nationals affected by the conflict” funded by the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany through the Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (DKH), implemented by the ASPCF, in partnership with several NGOs, including P4EC.