Teenergizer

We are a youth-led Ukrainian organization whose model and focus is to empower young people to protect their health and exercise their human rights. Created in 2014 in response to the acute gap in services for vulnerable young people in Ukraine and young Ukrainians living with HIV, Teenergizer is led and staffed by young people in Ukraine. Teenergizer is responsive to the changing needs of young people, which have dramatically changed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Currently Teenergizer is providing psycho-social support to adolescents and young people of 12 to 25 years old 7 days per week from 9 am to 23 pm EST on our website. We are maintaining a system of youth-friendly peer-to-peer online counseling provided by trained young psychologists, where adolescents access these services via our website. We have provided free counseling for over 26,000 adolescents and young people, the majority of which are Ukrainians affected by the war, and we will continue to support them during the crisis of their lives.

Our main topics for counseling are:

• Depressive state and anxiety (we do not offer medical diagnoses)
• Personal relationships (friendship, love, relations with parents)
• Sexual education
• HIV
• Bullying