A student of Zaporizhzhya Polytechnic University took part in the seminar of the educational program "Scholarship" from the BF "Friends of the Children"
On August 1-2, the “Friends of Children” Charitable Foundation (https://www.facebook.com/pryyateliditey) held an educational seminar on the topic “Your personal safety in the modern world” in Kyiv. The participants of the seminar were 16 scholarship holders of the foundation, among whom was a student of our university, Kateryna Lashchenko (group SN-112, specialty “Psychology”).
The program of the seminar was rich, interesting and varied. Speakers were:
— Chairman of the NGO “People”, social educator Dmytro Samarskyi: he shared youth development programs, in particular international ones, focusing on “Erasmus+”, which promotes the integration of young people in Europe, and also gave advice on self-development in youth and social entrepreneurship
— child neuropsychologist, psychologist of the Center for Mental Health of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, systemic family psychotherapist (in training) and co-founder of the psychological platform “Human Soul” Ksenia Chubova: she discussed with the participants the topics of mental health
—experts of the Institute of Democracy named after Pylypa Orlyka, Olena Samoilenko and Tetyana Stroy, who taught the participants the modern mechanisms of disinformation and content verification methods
— certified nutritionist, consultant on rational and other types of nutrition, certified teacher, lecturer in the field of culinary education, professional cook with experience working in catering establishments, founder of the culinary and creative space for children “Cooking Club” and “Solodka mit”: conducted a meaningful conversation with the participants about the resource that affects the psychological state, its search and preservation
— representatives of UCARE (USA) Vera Petrusha and Olga Sumina: together with them, further cooperation and the introduction of new approaches to the implementation of the “Scholarship” program were discussed
In addition to the rich educational program, all participants visited the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine, where they got acquainted with the exposition of Poltava Oblast and Podillia.
The Department of Psychology is sincerely grateful to its partners: the Charitable Foundation “Friends of Children” and personally to the president of the foundation Maryna Krysa, the Ukrainian Children’s Aid and Relief Effort Inc. Charitable Organization. (UCARE, Inc., https://www.facebook.com/groups/UCAREInc) and other sponsors of the project for allowing our student to participate in the seminar!
We wish our partners successful implementation of all projects and look forward to further cooperation!
