The St. Petersburg project “You will be believed” launched a program for helping teenagers who survived sexual violence

The project “You will be believed” launched a program of psychological support for adolescents and young people faced with sexualized violence, harassment and operation. This was reported to the "paper" by the organizers.

With the help of the program, people under 20 years old can meet for free with a psychologist online on a video call or in person up to ten times. Psychologists of the organization “They will believe” the organization specializing in working with children and adolescents participate in the new project.

To meet a psychologist for free, you need to leave a request through the program website .

Ksenia Shashunova
Coordinating direction of working with adolescents and young people

- We know that the problem of sexualized violence against children and adolescents exists, and for us it is not only statistics. About two years we have been working with adults who have experienced sexualized violence in childhood and adolescence. Through the stories told to us many years later, we are especially acutely feeling how important and necessary assistance was in adolescence.

The St. Petersburg project “They will believe you” helps people who have survived violence in childhood. It has existed since 2019. You can read more about him here .