Date: 20-03-2023

Supporting local governments to build comprehensive early childhood services – experience from Slovenia

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.

Date: 16-03-2023

Four additional ISSA Member organizations receive training on the Primokiz approach

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.

Date: 11-08-2022

Amazon, ISSA, and Save the Children partner to distribute story books in Ukrainian

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.

Date: 07-08-2022

Webinar: Enabling responsive early childhood strategies: the Primokiz Approach for Local Governments

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.

Date: 26-07-2022

ISSA and War Child join forces in new partnership initiative

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. 

Date: 18-07-2022

Training of Trainers: Foundational training on psychological first aid and trauma-informed practices

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.

Date: 19-04-2022

AMURTEL Romania provides psychological first aid to refugee children and parents

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

Date: 14-04-2021

Survey: Public Perception Regarding Early Childhood Education in Romania

Parents in Romania are aware of the importance of education for a child’s development, however they associate the outcomes of education with discipline, conformism and school performance.

Date: 11-03-2021

ISSA Fundraising Workshop Builds a Secure Future at the AMURTEL Family Home

In 2017, when I received an email invitation from ISSA to a fundraising session with Bernard Ross, Director, =mc consulting, it literally felt like a sign from the heavens. 

Date: 14-12-2020

Successful Partnership to Support Comprehensive Early Childhood Services

We interviewed Christopher Goodman, Program Manager at Jacobs Foundation, about their partnership with ISSA and our member organization in Romania – the Step by Ste Center for Education and Professional Development