As part of the project “Identification of young people’s knowledge about sexuality education through public libraries in the Republic of Moldova” two trainings were organized for teenagers and their parents.

The first training was a special meeting of young people from the gymnasium named after Academician Constantin Sibirski with a wonderful educational psychologist and specialist in child-rearing, Anna Iskrova.

Anna is a very good specialist in her field, and the young people who had the chance to meet her, share with her an avalanche of emotions, fears and questions that worry them at this age.

Adolescence is an intense period of transformation and in order to harmonize relationships, improve communication and, most importantly, support emotional and adolescent health, we all, especially professionals, need to get involved.

The second training was a meeting of parents of teenagers with Anna Iskrova, an educational psychologist and parenting specialist.

Most parents who have a teenager at home often do not understand the storms that are going on in their child’s soul, and conversations end in quarrels between the two generations.

Parents who attended the meeting with the psychologist learned how to deal with certain tense situations with their teenager and how to harmonize child-parent relations by showing empathy and communicating a lot.

Emotional health of young people is the key to their bright future.

These trainings are part of a series of activities planned within the project “Identification of young people’s knowledge on sexuality education through public libraries in the Republic of Moldova”, a project implemented by the Reproductive Health Training Center, in partnership with the Adam Mickiewicz Polish Library, and with the financial support of Solidarités international.