“YOU ARE NOT ALONE! Psychological First Aid for Children and Adolescents”
Since January 2025, the Crisis Intervention Center 6 A Probostwo Street in Lublin has been implementing activities from the 0-84 Citizens’ Budget project for people in Lublin: “YOU ARE NOT ALONE! Psychological first aid for children and adolescents”.
Psychological, emotional crises increasingly affect children and adolescents. The project aims to improve the skills among the above participants in dealing with difficult situations, acquiring the ability to deal with difficult emotions and improving the skills of parents / guardians in supporting a child in crisis.
Project activities:
- 1. psychologist support for children and adolescents. Individual consultations of a psychologist with children and adolescents are held at the headquarters of the Crisis Intervention Center, 6 A Probostwo Street.
- 2. School for Parents and Educators. This is a program of meetings for anyone looking for a way to establish deeper and warmer relationships with their children. Its main goal is to support parents in coping with daily interactions with children and adolescents.
- 3. Aggression Replacement Training (TZA) for the age group (13-15).
- 4. “Stop the Hate Action – Don’t ignore, react! The aim is to raise awareness among parents and young people about the nature of the consequences of cyberbullying/heyt. Mocking, bullying, harassment, impersonating another person or publishing an unwanted image are just some of the ways used by cyberbullying/hejt perpetrators. That is why it is so important to educate about the rules of safe use of the network by children and young people
- 5. “Action Safe Holidays with CIKus” and “Action Safe Holidays”. – We visit children and adolescents resting during the holidays/holidays at half-day camps and Day Support Centers
- 6. the Crisis Intervention Center in Lublin cooperates with the Meeting Points of children and young people from the City of Lublin. In April 2025, we started a series of workshop meetings for staff working in Youth Spaces. The purpose of the meetings is to strengthen professional competence and better prepare to work with young people, and in particular to improve the competence of the staff to work effectively with young people in difficult and challenging situations
- 7. The Center for Crisis Intervention in Lublin closely cooperates with 5 educational institutions, i.e. Elementary Schools No. 20, 24, 19, 16, 3, where the following activities are implemented:
- – Establishment of a Psychological Post to conduct individual consultations on the premises with a psychologist or therapist for children and adolescents, which will enable an increase in awareness and skills among participants in dealing with difficult life situations in a constructive manner. The timing of consultations depends on the availability of CIK specialists and the facilities’ capabilities,
- – organization of meetings for parents in the form of online covering, in particular, the acquisition of skills in recognizing a mental crisis and ways to cope with the crisis,
- – workshops for specialists of establishments (pedagogues and school psychologists) on the “Blue Cards” Procedure and Standards for the Protection of Minors. The premise of the planned activities is to create an environment in which the child, his rights and needs are at the center,
- – workshops / lectures for establishments within the framework of the Action “ Stop the Hate – Don’t Ignore React!
Silver 50+. New horizons for local government employees in Lublin
The main objective of the project Silver +. New Horizons for Local Government Employees in Lublin is to support, by the end of 2026, 266 employees/chairs aged 50+ employed at the Lublin City Hall (UML), the Crisis Intervention Center in Lublin (CIK) and the Municipal Family Assistance Center in Lublin (MOPR), through:
- – Stationary workshop trainings on the following topics: stress management and counteracting professional burnout; WORK-LIFE BALANCE – maintaining balance between work and personal life; efficient intergenerational communication in an employee team;
- – adaptation of 50 workstations for employees/chairs 50+ by equipping them with ergonomic chairs with adjustable depth, height and the possibility of adjusting the reclining of the seat, backrest, headrest;
- – participation in supervision for 10 employees/chairs of CIK and MOPR;
- – possibility to work remotely – delivery of 25 laptops for remote work and preparation of an online training platform with educational content on the topic of cyber security.
One of the intermediate goals of the project is to extend the working capacity of the elderly.
Tasks and activities to be implemented in the Silver + project. New horizons for local government employees in Lublin:
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1. Developing the competencies of 50+ employees
- – covering 256 people with support
- – stationary two-day trainings
- – Stress Management and Counteracting Professional Burnout,
- – Work-Life Balance – maintaining balance between work and personal life,
- – Efficient intergenerational communication in an employee team
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2. Adaptation of workplaces for 50+ employees
- – coverage of 50 people,
- – adaptation of workplaces to the needs of the elderly
- – Purchase and delivery of ergonomic adjustable chairs
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3. Supervision of social welfare workers
- – covering 48 people;
- – Purchase of an online training platform designed to provide training on cyber security and threats while working remotely,
- – Purchase of laptops for remote work (25 units) for lending to employees using remote work
Project value: PLN 1,007,760
Value of EU funding: 856,596 PLN
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HELP gives POWER
We are very happy and ready for action!
The main objective of the HELP gives POWER project is to develop services and expand from January 2026 to October 2029 the offer of assistance provided by the Crisis Intervention Center in Lublin (CIK) in the field of counteracting violence, including domestic violence, through the introduction of highly specialized forms of classes, consultations, workshops and group therapy for 480 people (children, adolescents and adults) at risk of social exclusion. Specific objective of the project: to promote social integration of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion, including those most in need and children.
The institutional target group consists of 1 entity – the Crisis Intervention Center in Lublin, the group covered by the support are: working, unemployed and economically inactive adults (380 people) and youth and children (100 people) aged 5 -18 years, who experience long-term and profound consequences of the violence suffered, including domestic violence.
Tasks and activities that will be implemented in the project HELP GIVES POWER:
Specialized assistance for children and adolescents experiencing violence:
- -Individual therapy with a child psychologist,
- -consultations with a child psychiatrist,
- -Social Skills Training and Aggression Replacement Training,
- -retrofitting the office for child and adolescent therapy: purchase of art materials, therapeutic aids, groceries,
- -going to the cinema at the end of group activities,
- -hippotherapy classes.
Specialized assistance for adults experiencing violence
- -Individual consultations with a psychologist and psychiatrist in the field of violence prevention,
- -group therapy for people experiencing violence,
- -metamorphosis workshops,
- -legal counseling,
- -retrofitting of psychologist and lawyer’s offices: the following will be purchased: laptop, shredder, multifunctional device.
Academy of good role models
- -Preparation and conduct of workshops “School for Parents”: 8 groups x 15 participants,
- -conducting therapeutic and educational group for Adult Children of Alcoholics – 140 persons.
Value of EU funding: 1,533,242.35 PLN
HELP versus violence
The Crisis Intervention Center is implementing the “HELP versus violence” project. It provides for the organization of group classes – Aggression Replacement Training and Social Skills Training for children aged 7 to 13, as well as training for CIK employees, enabling them to learn new techniques and forms of help for people in crisis. Additionally, as part of the project, a helpline for children and young people was launched, and group classes for adults will also be held, including a School for Parents and Educators, a therapeutic and support group for those experiencing violence, and an intervention and support program for people in crisis. Recruitment for all group classes is conducted continuously. A given group begins work when the list of participants is closed. A total of 122 people will benefit from group therapy and therapeutic activities.
The project “HELP versus violence” is co-financed by European funds. The total cost of the project is nearly PLN 322,000. PLN, including the amount of the contribution from European Funds is PLN 305.5 thousand. zloty.
Stop Aggression among Youth
The Crisis Intervention Center in Lublin, as part of the Citizens’ Budget, is implementing the project “STOP AGGRESSION AMONG YOUTH”.
The main goal of the Project is to promote amicable ways of resolving conflicts. We carry out activities for children and teenagers of school age (students of schools in Lublin) and for their guardians – educators, pedagogues and school psychologists, as well as parents/legal guardians.
As part of the “STOP AGGRESSION AMONG YOUTH” project, we carry out the following activities:
- • Helpline for children and young people from June 1, 2024 – weekend helpline open on Saturdays and Sundays from 9.00-14.00 phone number: 789-777-981,
- • Psychological support for children and adolescents – from April 30, 2024, a child psychologist is on duty at CIK ul. Rectory 6A,
- • Psychiatric support for children and adolescents – from May 28, 2024, a child psychiatrist is on duty at CIK ul. Rectory 6A,
- • “School for Parents and Educators” – from March 22, 2024.
- • Social and educational campaign – one of the forms of social and educational action was the organization of the Conference on April 26, 2024. “STOP AGGRESSION AMONG YOUTH” under the Honorary Patronage of Dr. Krzysztof Żuk, the Mayor of Lublin. The conference was addressed to Headmasters of Schools in Lublin, pedagogues/psychologists and all interested teachers/educators of Schools in Lublin who are looking for effective strategies and information on recognizing, analyzing and effectively counteracting peer conflicts in the educational environment.
