Since 2022, ISSA Member Neohumanist Education Association has been working to build community resilience of Ukrainians living through war.

Marina Calac, a pediatrician at the National Institute for Early Intervention, sharing her impressions on the study visit to the Netherlands. 

CEF “School for All” hopes to collaborate and build partnerships, share the information, promote good practices, design and apply joint proposals to the international organizations.

Not a single kindergarten was open in the city of Trostianets that is in Sumy oblast in Ukraine in May of 2022. The community had suffered significant destruction of infrastructure, schools, kindergartens, and community residents' homes because of the war in Ukraine.

Thanks to the psychological first aid foundational training developed by ISSA, War Child and Amna, ISSA has provided capacity building to ISSA members on the ground in eight countries. 

Twelve training sessions in Psychological First Aid for 450 early childhood development practitioners were organized and delivered by the Centrul Step by Step in Romania. 

In Bulgaria, ISSA Member For Our Children Foundation coordinated the training of 103 early years professionals in psychological first aid.

Recently, six ISSA Members joined a Primokiz training in Romania. The Step by Step Center for Quality in Education shares the network benefit of this workshop.

In February 2023, ISSA trainers and teams from countries already implementing the Primokiz approach provided a training to four additional ISSA Member organizations on the Primokiz methodology.