Saint Petersburg Foundation for Crisis Psychological Help for Children and Youth “New Steps” is a non-governmental non-profit organization, uniting professional psychologists which work to help children and families.
"New steps" Foundation's main goals:
- Organization of and providing psychological help to children, teenagers and their parents in crisis situations mostly connected to child abuse.
- Specialized trainings for professionals dealing with children who suffered from physical, sexual, emotional abuse and needs' neglect.
- Facilitating activities of non-profitable organizations and government owned services providing social services to make their work with children and families more effective.
- Facilitation for specialists working with children and their families to prevent burnout syndrome.
- Expert evaluation of the effectiveness of social services and consulting in planning and projecting perspectives to help children and their families for donors and grantees.
"New Steps" Foundation's activity is financed by grant programs, its employees' contribution and volunteers.
Grace to seminars offered by the “New Steps” Foundation since the mid 1990s which have child abuse and needs’ neglect as their topic, many professional psychologists and social workers, teachers and doctors from different Russian cities (St Petersburg, Moscow, Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Kazan, Tomsk, Surgut, Barnaul, Khabarovsk, Magadan and others) for the first time were given a training dedicated to child abuse and developed skills in detecting and fighting these issues while helping children.
Almost all reputed non-profitable organizations offering help to children and troubled families in St Petersburg used services of “New Steps” psychologists to train their own employees and their partners from municipal social services.
In 2001-2009 in the frames of the US-Russia program «Assistance to Russian Orphans» the specialists of the Foundation participated at various occasions in developing and implementing an early detection system and help techniques to assist children who had been subject to abuse in different Russian regions. The «New Steps» psychologists trained and supervised activities of inter-institutional groups of specialists and followed up their results in these regions.
In 2006-2007 the «New Steps» psychologists contributed to program aimed at helping children, parents and teachers in the town of Beslan that had been attacked by terrorists who hostaged school pupils on 09/01/2004.
In 2006-2009 «New steps» implemented a program to prevent burn-out syndrome for non-profitable organizations offering help to children and their families in St Petersburg.
Grace to work combined with a number of social services in St Petersburg and Moscow the «New Steps» psychologists developed a method to administer group seminars for troubled parents (alcohol abusing, neglecting children's needs or abusing them) which increased the effectiveness of help provided to parents and improve children's family situations (reduction of abuse incidents; parents compliance with social programs increased; early detection of other issues).
The “New Steps” has been assisting work of a volunteer crisis line for adolescents in St Petersburg. The operators of the line are volunteers aged 17-21, high school and university students who have been trained by the «New Steps» psychologists.
In 2006 “New Steps” psychologists Irina Alexeeva and Ilya Novoselskiy published a book "Child abuse. Reasons. Consequences. Help.” That was one of the first books about help to abused and neglected children and their parents in Russia. A second revised edition of the book was published in 2010 by The National Foundation for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (Moscow).
“New Steps” Foundation e-mail: newsteps@newsteps.ru
Ïñèõîëîãè÷åñêèé ðåñóðñíûéöåíòð äëÿ íåêîìåð÷åñêèõ îðãàíèçàöèé |
 Èùåì ôèíàíñèðîâàíèå ïðîåêòîâ |