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“Support for children and adolescents in a psychological crisis triggered by isolation and lack of social relations” is a project organised by e-learning.pl, Fundacja Dajemy Dzieciom Siłę (Empowering Children Foundation) and the Icelandic non-governmental organisation Heimili og skóli.

The campaign is to address the emergence of unfavourable phenomena caused by the pandemic and isolation affecting children and adolescents. Its overriding goal is to improve the knowledge of pedagogical and therapeutic staff, as well as of parents in the field of recognising crisis symptoms in children and adolescents and responding in a timely manner.

Completed stages of the project:

Guidebook “Problematic Use of the Internet by Children and Adolescents”
Download the guidebook for teachers, school counsellors and psychologists, as well as other professionals working with children, and learn how to cope with excessive use of the Internet by children and adolescents.

The problem involving the excessive use of the Internet by children and teenagers had been observed long before the pandemic. The recent, anxious years have greatly intensified this phenomenon. The disturbing intensification of that problem can also be observed from the perspective of therapists’ offices. Therapists are seeing more and more young people with symptoms of Internet addiction. Feel free to download the latest report and learn how to overcome these challenges.
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Watch the conference online recorded online
The conference “Support for children and adolescents in a psychological crisis triggered by isolation and lack of social relations” organised by Fundacja Dajemy Dzieciom Siłę (Empowering Children Foundation), e-learning.pl and Heimili og skóli was held on 26 April. Please be encouraged to watch the recording. 
Meeting agenda:
  • Opening of the conference and welcoming the participants, presentation of the agenda – Piotr Ochociński, e-learning.pl, Konsorcjum doradczo-szkoleniowe SA
  • Presentation of the project assumptions, its main substantive goals, duration and planned effects of the project. – Piotr Ochociński, e-learning.pl, Konsorcjum doradczo-szkoleniowe SA
  • The current state of knowledge on the existing threats to children and adolescents arising from isolation and excessive use of the Internet. – Szymon Wójcik and Ewa Dziemidowicz, Fundacja Dajemy Dzieciom Siłę (Empowering Children Foundation)
  • Mental condition of children and adolescents as regards threats resulting from the pandemic and excessive use of the Internet, as well as best practices exercised in this area in Iceland. – Presentation in English. Heimili og skóli (Home and School – National Association of Parents)
  • Discussion panel with conference participants
Conference Organisers
Konsorcjum doradczo-szkoleniowe SA (e-learning.pl brand) – provides end-to-end development services within 2 business units, separate teams and brands: House of Skills and e-learning.pl. It has been on the market since 2004 as a result of a merger of 6 well-known training and consulting companies operating on the market since the beginning of the 90s. Each and every year, KDS SA executes several hundred development projects, attended by approximately 15K employees of large-, medium- and small-sized companies. Its offer includes consulting and training solutions. It is a partner of international training organisations, including but not limited to: The Ken Blanchard Companies, Fierce Inc., ITIM International, Celemi. It collaborates, for instance, with the Polish Chamber of Training Companies, and the Confederation of Employers Lewiatan, and runs a Private Continuing Education Institution. As part of the e-learning.pl brand, it specialises in e-learning solutions: e-training (ready-made libraries and execution of dedicated projects); development portals and platforms; broadly understood mobile development solutions; services supporting remote educational processes, such as online training and workshops. Within the project, the Consortium is the Project Leader and is held responsible for all issues relative to the creation of multimedia resources or the e-learning platform.
Fundacja Dajemy Dzieciom Siłę (Empowering Children Foundation, formerly Fundacja Dzieci Niczyje [Nobody’s Children Foundation]) is a non-profit non-governmental organisation, that has been dealing with broadly understood help for abused children and preventing violence since 1991. From 2004, the Foundation has been carrying out comprehensive activities for the sake of the safety of children while online. The areas of the Foundation’s activities include: protecting children against violence and sexual abuse, providing children with professional psychological and legal help, educating adults on how to react to violence against children, educating children on how to avoid violence and abuse, and caring for children’s safety while online. The Foundation runs a network of Children’s Aid Centres, including a psychological clinic called Dziecko w sieci (Child Online) and a Helpline for Children and Adolescents. The Foundation co-creates the educational programme “Polish Safer Internet Centre”, which belongs to the European network for the safety of children while online – Insafe. The Foundation’s headcount is nearly 100, including many professionals who have been working in the field of online safety for years. They are education and law specialists, coaches, and therapists working with children. As far as the project is concerned, the Foundation is responsible for the substantive side of the undertaking, providing content for multimedia materials and delivering support and consultations in the field of diagnosing and responding to problem-bearing situations, which are the area of project activities.
Heimili og skóli (Home and School – National Association of Parents) is an Icelandic non-governmental organisation, operating since 1992, whose goal is to promote better upbringing and educational conditions for children and adolescents. The Organisation brings together several thousand parents. It is a member of, among others Almannaheillar, the children’s Welfare Watch group, Náum áttur, the SAMAN group, Walk to school, the advisory committee for kindergartens and primary schools, Röddar – the association for good reading and articulation, the advisory group for the family policy in information technology and communication. It provides advice, publishes the yearbook and educational materials on parenting, education and cooperation. It works on safe use of the Internet. It represents Iceland in the SAFT network security project working with various stakeholder groups (government agencies, research centres, various bodies of the ECU system.). In the project, it acts as a consultant in the field of best practices for children’s and adolescents’ safety while online.
About EEA funds
The project “Supporting children and adolescents in psychological crisis due to isolation and lack of social relationships in the online world” benefits from a grant of EUR 139,798.00 received from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway under the Education Programme, which was set up under the intergovernmental Agreement on the implementation of the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area 2014–2021. The EEA funds represent Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway’s contribution to a green, competitive and inclusive Europe. There are two general objectives: reducing economic and social inequalities in Europe and strengthening bilateral relations between the Donor States and 15 EU Member States in Central and Southern Europe and the Baltic Sea area. The three Donor States work closely with the EU under the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA). The donors provided EUR 3.3 billion under successive fund programmes between 1994 and 2014. The EEA funds for the period 2014–2021 amount to EUR 1.55 billion.

The priorities for the period are:
          1. innovation, research, education and competitiveness;
          2. social inclusion, youth employment and poverty reduction;
          3. environment, energy, climate change and low-carbon economy;
          4. culture, civil society, good governance and fundamental rights;
          5. justice and home affairs.

The EEA Funds are jointly financed by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, whose contribution is based on their GDP. Eligibility for the funds arises from meeting the criteria set out in the EU Cohesion Fund for Member States with per capita gross domestic income of less than 90% of the EU average. The goal of the Education Programme is to reduce economic and social disparities within the European Economic Area and to strengthen bilateral relations between Poland and the Donor States (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway) in the field of education.

More information on EEA funds can be found at https://www.eog.gov.pl/
About the Project
The brand e-learning.pl, together with Fundacja Dajemy Dzieciom Siłę (Empowering Children Foundation) and the Icelandic foundation Heimili og skóli, has been executing the project entitled “Support for children and adolescents in a psychological crisis triggered by isolation and lack of social relations” since January 2022. The project is scheduled to have been ended in December 2023.

It is to address the emergence of unfavourable phenomena caused by the pandemic and isolation affecting children and adolescents. The overriding goal of the project is to improve the knowledge of pedagogical and therapeutic staff, as well as of parents in the field of recognising crisis symptoms in children and adolescents and responding in a timely manner.

Activities planned under the project provide for developing a coherent educational programme to counteract unfavourable phenomena occurring among children and adolescents caused by isolation and functioning online. This programme will comprise the development and implementation of a complete educational path for children aged 6-10 and 11-15, which will also comprise lesson plans along with a package of interactive materials (tests, exercises, audiocasts, video materials); e-learning training and webinar. It will all coincide with the creation of remote learning handbooks to support effective online education. All multimedia materials will be made available within a dedicated remote learning platform, to which all target groups specified in the project (children, adolescents, teaching staff) will have access.

Who is the project addressed to?
The target group is employees of educational institutions educating children – teachers, school counsellors, psychotherapists, including social workers. As part of the project, a pilot was established, under which all materials will be used to deliver a course for 30 school counsellors/teachers/employees of institutions supporting children. Working this way, our plans include reaching 600 children and 960 parents.
Institutions executing the project
PThe project is executed by Konsorcjum doradczo-szkoleniowe SA (e-learning.pl brand) in collaboration with Fundacja Dajemy Dzieciom Siłę (Empowering Children Foundation) and Heimili og skóli (Home and School – National Association of Parents) from Iceland.

Tasks of partners under the project:
  • Within the project, e-learning.pl is the Project Leader and is held responsible for all issues relative to the creation of multimedia resources or the e-learning platform.
  • As far as Fundacja Dajemy Dzieciom Siłę (Empowering Children Foundation) is concerned, it is responsible for the substantive side of the project, providing content for multimedia materials and delivering support and consultations in the field of diagnosing and responding to problem-bearing situations, which are the area of project activities.
  • Heimili og skóli (Home and School – National Association of Parents) – an Icelandic non-governmental organisation which acts in the project as a consultant in the field of best practices for children’s and adolescents’ safety while online.
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