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Youth Spaces "12–21"
Creating conditions for high-quality psychosocial support for adolescents and youth
Goal
Creating conditions for high-quality psychosocial support for adolescents and youth.
Results
The Foundation plans to launch the first 5 spaces in 5 regions of Ukraine in 2025.
About the Project
Adolescence and young adulthood are two of the most challenging periods in every person’s life. They are full of seeking and challenges even in peacetime. In the context of a full-scale war, this period becomes even more complicated, with chronic stress, loss, and uncertainty about the future.
To address these challenges, the Olena Zelenska Foundation launches a new project in psychosocial support in 2025: Youth Spaces "12–21" for adolescents and young people. These spaces will be physical, inclusive support centers that combine individual and group psychological assistance, career counseling sessions, leisure-time activities, etc.
The Foundation plans to launch the first 5 pilot spaces in 5 regions of Ukraine in 2025.
The Foundation’s team has also studied the European experience, particularly the Headspace Denmark model, and now adapts it to Ukrainian conditions. This takes into account the peculiarities associated with war: the impact of traumatic experiences, the lack of systemic solutions in the field of adolescents’ mental health, and the need for community and ongoing support.
The global goal is for such spaces to appear in every region of Ukraine.