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Harmony Projects

Harmony Institute has always been involved in social programs focusing mainly on providing psychological support and trainings for helping professionals.

Most of the social programs are carried out in partnership with charities, state agencies and businesses. To ensure the long-lasting cooperation we participate in grant tendors and look for partners who share our values.

In 1989 Harmony started the first Hotline Service for Children, Adolescents and Their Parents in Russia. Since then trained psychologists have been providing 24-hour free psychological support for this population. Our service works 24 hours a day and has two channels. We also run a free Psychological Help Office for university students of St. Petersburg.

Harmony has a big experience in trauma work. We have conducted several projects providing psychological support for trauma survivors and educational trainings for helping professionals:

1991-1994 Psychological help and rehabilitation for Afghanistan veterans.

1995 One-year School for psychologists and medical doctors from different Russian regions on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (in partnership with Olimpia Institute (USA))

1994-1996 Psychological help and rehabilitation for the liquidators of Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion.

Since 1998 our specialists have been conducting rehabilitation and training programs in the Northern Caucasus area:

1998-2000 Program for combatants “Healing The Warrior” (in partnership with the NGO Women of the Don (Novocherkassk))

2000-2003 Training and rehabilitation program for helping professionals in the Northern Caucasus (in partnership with the Open Society Institute, Soros Foundation, USA)

2002 Hosting an all-Russian conference on War and Trauma and publishing conference materials

2005-2006 Rehabilitation program for helping professionals working with the terrorist attack survivors in Beslan (in partnership with CAF, Russia)

2006 Rehabilitation program for psychologists and social teachers of the center “Doveriye” (“Trust”) working with Beslan children (in Partnership with Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in the Northern Caucasus)

2006 Supervision for psychologists working with Beslan terrorist attack survivors (in partnership with American Jewish World Service).

2006 Social and psychological survey of Beslan families to define the need for creating psychological counseling service for children and families in Beslan (supported by UNICEF).

2005-2008 Training programs for school psychologists and teachers from Chechnya “Social and Psychological Counseling in Secondary School” (supported by UNISEF).

2007-2008 Supervision program for helping professionals in the Northern Caucasus (in partnership with Keystone Foundation for Children and Families).

2008 Supervision program for the specialists of the Socio-Psychological and Medical Center of Grozny (in partnership with UNESCO)

2009 Rehabilitation work with helping professionals in South Ossetia (supported by CAF).

2009 Organizing telephone hotline service in Chechen Republic, Republics of Ingushetia and Dagestan (in partnership with UNICEF).

2009-2010 Psychological Counseling training for teachers and psychologists of South Ossetia (in partnership with CAF)

In 2008-2009 we carried out Senior Citizens Support Project together with Social Support Center of Kirovsky district (St. Petersburg). This project included free psychological help for the elderly, trainings and supervision of social workers taking care of the old people.

In 2010-2011 with the support from Russian National Charity Foundation we developed and conducted a psychological assistance program for children and adolescents with diabetes.

During 2011-2015 Harmony conducted a project supported by Russian private Charity Foundations “The Key” for specialists who work with foster families. This Foundation focuses on the work with orphans and foster families trying to build sustainable living communities for foster families. Harmony provided the staff training for the Schools for Foster Parents – which is a part of this program, and also lead training programs for over 200 social workers and psychologists who work with foster families and families in crisis from St. Petersburg and other regions.

We are continuing our social project to support families with elderly people who were prisoners of Nazi concentration camps and survivors of Leningrad’ Siege during the Second World War. The project is called "Supportive Dialogue", and includes individual and family counseling, education, and support groups for relatives to help them to develop positive relationships. The project was initiated in 2016 with the support of the German State Foundation program "Memory, Responsibility, and Future". More than hundred families and about 250 relatives took part in that project. During 2020 Harmony also sponsored 6 free online lectures by experienced and respected medical doctors for the members of the families with people with limited mobility.

Our project "I'm Responsible for Myself" supported by Heineken International, Ltd. started in 2009 and continues until now. The project is designed to teach adolescents healthy and responsible attitudes and behaviors towards alcohol. Between 2010 and 2020 about 6,752 teenagers, over 2,244 parents, and more than 748 teachers were involved in the project. During 2020 we provided 10 online lectures for parents and 72-hour online trainings for 23 teachers.

Our project work experience is presented in the following publications:

2001 A Handbook on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

2002 War and Trauma. Conference Materials

2006 Psychological State Study of Beslan Families Surviving 2004 Terrorist Attack

2008 Helping Professionals’ Burn-Out Prevention

2008 Psychological Aspects of Life Standards of Elders

2008 Burn-Out Prevention for Helping Professionals

2009 For The Close Ones. Psychological Aspects of Social Work with The Elderly

2012 Forster Family: Building Support System for Foster Families

2021 The Helping Dialogue. Handbook for Volunteers and Professionals Working With The Elderly and Their Families

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