Child Mental Health Project in St. Petersburg

Film: Children Need Parents

HealthProm's philosophy is to seek to catalyse change at the point in the life cycleat which least expenditure can deliver most gain in health or welfare. We therefore give priority
to prevention and early intervention. The film, which we are making with the St, Petersburg Early Intervention
Institute and EveryChild, aims to raise awareness that to develop healthy children, strong and stable relationships are a necessity, which institutions can't provide. Priority target groups are policy makers and those who take decisions about placing children in institutions, but we aim to make the need for policy change widely felt.

The final shoot was carried out in January and the rough edit of the film in February. It will be tested on focus groups before the final edit, and the film will be completed some time in the summer. But this is only the start. With the British film 'John', which makes the same point and which we have dubbed in Russian, and a supporting booklet, the new film will be disseminated by a broad dissemination partnership widely in Russia, an enormous and highly costly undertaking. The project is funded by DfID, UNICEF, IREX and the World Bank, and has the support of key federal ministries.

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