Вебінар «Мам, я хочу додому»

▫️ How do teenagers experience losses? ▫️⁠⁠ Why can their reactions manifest themselves in the form of aggression, withdrawal, or protest? ▫️ How to recognize signs of depression and anxiety and when should you seek help from a specialist? ✔️ This will be discussed during the next educational event as part of the training project "Professional Development in the Field of Mental Health: Knowledge, Experience, Practice", which was created by the Coordination Center for Mental Health of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine within the framework of the All-Ukrainian Mental Health Program "How Are You?" - an initiative of First Lady Olena Zelenska. We invite you to watch the webinar "Mom, I Want to Go Home", which will be held online on May 28, 2026 at 4:00 PM 📍The speakers will be: Svitlana Kominko, Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Professor at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT, Vancouver, Canada), Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Canadian NGO Maple Hope Foundation. and Mariana Vorozhbyt, a psychologist with over 5 years of experience in individual and group counseling (cognitive-behavioral, emotion-focused, and schema therapy), a facilitator of support groups for newly arrived adolescents and parents in Montreal. She specializes in working with post-traumatic experiences and group support for adolescents and parents. “Forced migration is not just a move. For a teenager, it is a multidimensional loss: home, friends, language, familiar status, a sense of control, and part of their own identity. The phrase “Mom, I want to go home” often means not an address on a map, but a need for safety, belonging, and understanding. Special attention during the webinar will be paid to family reactions to migration: avoidance, hypercontrol, “stuck” in the past, or split adaptation. We will discuss how the parents' response style affects the mental state of the teenager and how to maintain contact and trust in new circumstances. Because a teenager does not break - he adapts. And it is the family that can become his source of stability and strength," the speakers note. 🟢 The webinar will be useful for parents, psychologists, social workers and educators who work with teenagers in conditions of forced migration. Participants will receive practical support tools: simple daily rituals, rules of emotional contact, exercises for family dialogue and ways to maintain a sense of home even in a new country. Support for the development and implementation of the All-Ukrainian mental health program "How are you?" - an initiative of the First Lady Olena Zelenska - is provided by the Coordination Center for Mental Health of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine with expert support from the World Health Organization. #tyak