The project of Poti Women Support Center “Harmonious environment for kids” continues. A training on the topic: “The essence of gender, gender-based violence, types and signs of domestic violence, ways and mechanisms of referring” was held for managers and educators of kindergartens in the hall of Sakrebulo.

The training was full of active inclusion of participants. It was noted that such trainings are important for kindergarten teachers, as the new instructions indicate, involvement in this direction is impertant. The training also focused on the topic of bullying. The methods of identifying the facts of bullying was interesting for the participants.

Participants noted:

"It is important to share this information with teachers and educators."

“I will hold an informational meeting with parents and educators. It is important that the parents should know what we need to respond to.”

Informational meetings with parents of kindergartens No. 6 and No. 16 were held in October, in frames of the small project of Poti Women Support Center “Harmonious Environment for Kids”. The topic of the meetings was domestic violence and its impact on children. There was revealed the  necessity of holding a meeting of a psychologist with parents and teachers, with an emphasis on the difficulties of relations between parents and children, as well as improving communication of teachers with kids.

During the meeting with the representative of the pre-school education union, the organizational issues of the planned training were reviewed.

Psychotherapeutic consultative sessions were held with 6 married couples In Senaki, Terjola, Tskaltubo, Kutaisi, and Khurcha (Zugdidi municipality). The psychologist also conducted 8 individual consultations on the problems of hyper activity, fears, aggression and made 2 psychological portraits for adolescents.

4 married couples were consulted via Skype.

Totally 40 beneficiaries received psychotherapeutic consultations.

The couples had consultations in correction of self-awareness so that they could choose non-violent forms of behavior.

In October, both group and individual meetings were held with a lawyer in Women Support Centers of Senaki, Khurcha / Koki, Tskaltubo. The main topic of the meeting is the law on domestic violence, mechanisms of victim protection (arresting and protective orders, interdepartmental council). Besides - personal questions, which were interesting for the meeting participants. Also one telephone consultation was given. Consultations help to solve the problems of the beneficiaries.