ISSA Member Step by Step Moldova reflects on the changing needs of Ukrainian refugee children and complex challenges of implementing a psychosocial support initiative.

GREELCO partnership aims to create an online learning community that connects ECEC professionals. 

In 2022, the ISSA Secretariat and Members distributed 195,000 copies of books in Ukrainian to children in Ukraine, Poland, and Romania.

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.

In partnership with Save the Children and Amazon, the International Step by Step Association will distribute 195,000 copies of three children’s story books in Ukrainian, from ISSA’s Reading Corner series.

The Primokiz approach has proved to be a successful vehicle for building a sustainable infrastructure of cross-sector capacity at the local level, backed-up by political support and funding able to shape and implement early childhood strategies and plans rooted in the needs of the communities.

War Child has partnered with ISSA to provide funding that will be used by ISSA and our Member organizations to deliver crucial psychological first aid and psychosocial support to young children and families in the countries dealing most immediately with refugees and internally displaced persons. 

As part of ISSA's Ukraine Response, the Secretariat held two Training of Trainers (ToT) online events for trainers and resource persons from ISSA Member organizations in Ukraine, Poland, Romania Moldova, Bulgaria, and Slovakia.

ISSA Member, the Neohumanist Education Association, works to build the capacity to provide psychological first aid at Romanian's border with Ukraine.