Mental health of the population in our country has been seriously damaged for the last several years due to all that happened in the country, causing people`s worry, fear, uncertainty, apathy, exaggerated sensitivity, hostility, sense of helplessness…
Therefore we think that there is a great need for protection and improvement od mental health of the population, especially children and adolescents which make the most fregile segment of the population.
The CB Red Cross sees its part in the intensified activity in giving psichosocial help to the population aiming to overcome the psichosocial consequences of war and social crisis.
TARGET GROUPS

1. Children and adolescents
Children and adolescents are mostly affected by any social crisis. They must be helped to find the meaning in life, to build firm and fighting mechanisms in themselves against forces of destruction, to accept the life philosophy of coping with reality and finding possibilities of overcoming the hardships of everyday life. If this help is not given in time it might happen that they develop antisocial behaviour or various psichic disorders.
(age: primary school from 7-15 and junior high school from 15-18 years).

2. Parents
In such circumstances where parents are also vulnerable group, children cannot have the adequate help. Children in crisis need more help, support and understanding.
Grown-ups in crisis have less capabilities to help their own children than in normal situations. Therefore, it is essential for parents to gain motivation and education for helping their children and functioning of the family as a whole. It means that they have to find in themselves as well as in their surroundings proper ways of overcoming crises and build gradually a psichologicaly healthy and worthy life style.
The program we offer would be a preventive one in the sense that it would provoke the system of care in parents and thus protect their children from the additional undesirable influences.

3. Teachers
School as an institution of special social meaning is not enough prepared for the psichosocial interventions in new crisis conditions. The need for education of teachers in prevention and help for children with difficulties in behaviour has become essential in the work of the CB Red Cross.
The early discovery of a problem and helping the pupils in need is the easiest in schools, because children spend most of their time there.
Special activities are planned for teachers` motivation for more intense preoccupation with these problems in the atmosphere of their own emotional vulnerability and lack of life and professional optimism.
The program is designed for children and adults with good psichological health, with no pathologic disorders, but who are exposed to developing crises due to their experiences and living conditions and belong to the risk group where their mental health can be endangared.

4. Targets and tasks
General target: successful integration of young people into the society
Specific targets:

• - relate demands of teachers and parents to the real life conditions of pupils
• - train teachers to identify, survey and treat pupils experiencing difficulties in behaviour
• - discovering and developing positive potentials of a person with trying to make them more dominant
• - improve mutual understanding and communication in a class and in family
• - overcoming trauma and stress reactions
• - giving information to pupils about the risk factors for their health
• - direction to professional services and institutions


5. Techniques and methods