Four Youth-Friendly Centers operate in the Vitebsk region

To provide assistance to adolescents in difficult life situations, consultative groups (gynecologists, pediatricians, psychologists, urologists) have been established in Adolescent-Friendly Centers. Volunteers are involved for peer-to-peer counseling.

The Centers provide assistance to adolescents and youth in maintaining and strengthening reproductive, psychological, and somatic health on a FREE, ANONYMOUS, CONFIDENTIAL basis (one can seek help anonymously without providing passport data or place of study).

The purpose of establishing the center is to increase awareness and motivation for a healthy lifestyle, provide conditions for the socialization of adolescents, and ultimately improve the reproductive, psychological, and somatic health of young people.

The activities of the Center are aimed at:

 

    • raising the level of knowledge of adolescents and youth about a healthy lifestyle, reproductive health, and STIs/HIV;
    • acquiring and strengthening healthy lifestyle skills, proper social and reproductive behavior;
    • forming motivation to use acquired knowledge and skills in one's own behavior.

    Psychologists provide counseling in the following areas:

     

    • Parent-child relationships (issues of child-rearing, communication with parents, conflict resolution, issues of understanding between children and parents)
    • Communication problems (shyness, conflict, fear of peers, teachers, fear of public speaking)
    • Emotional problems (anxiety, school phobias, aggression, lack of empathy)
    • Crisis situations (significant loss, unrequited love, loneliness, violence, physical trauma, etc.)
       

    The centers are based at:

      1. Vitebsk Regional Children's Clinical Center at the address: Vitebsk, Chkalov St., 14; phone 8-0212-37-24-50
      2. Novopolotsk Central City Hospital at the address: Novopolotsk, Kalinin St., 5; phone 8-0214-51-90-90
  • Orsha Central Polyclinic at the address: Orsha, Pionerskaya Street, 15; telephone 8-0216-50-57-50
  • Polotsk Children's Polyclinic at the address: Polotsk, E. Polotskaya St., bld. 18. Email address: otkroven@bk.ru, telephone: 8-0214-46-76-55
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