March 17, 2021 – “HOPE worldwide Ukraine” Charity Foundation has held “Children and War. Teaching Recovery Techniques” training in Kramatorsk on March 15-17, 2021. Eighteen psychologists, social workers, educators and volunteers from Donetsk region have participated in the training. The training is the first educational event of the “Helping Hand for Ukraine: Psycho-Social Support Program” Project, which will involve 54 participants in the learning process and practice during March – September 2021.
The “Helping Hand for Ukraine: Psycho-Social Support Program” Project is aimed at contributing to the improvement of the mental health and rehabilitation services for children with war trauma in Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine by introducing a psychosocial support training program to school psychologists, social workers, and pedagogical students. We aspire to strengthen the competencies of mental health care and rehabilitation specialists and increase the access to psychological rehabilitation services development activities in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
The Project is financed from the funds of the Development Cooperation and Democracy Promotion Programme of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania.
Within the frames of the project we plan to conduct:
• Three 3-day trainings “Children and War. Teaching Recovery Techniques” in Kramatorsk (March 15-17), Lysychansk (April 03-05), and Slovyansk (April 06-08),
• Seven online meetings – supervision for the participants who will conduct therapy courses with children and parents after the training (supervision will be held for small groups, 2-6 participants,, in April-September), and
• One 3-day sum-up conference “Coping with War Trauma. Mental Health and Rehabilitation Services” for all participants in Carpathians in August 2021.
The Call for applications to participate in the Project is open. The deadline for registrations is March 28, 2021:
• Apply for the training in Lysychansk, April 03-05, 2021 – https://forms.gle/abWrYM88MCvq6pnF7
• Apply for the training in Slovyansk, April 06-08, 2021 – https://forms.gle/jnnxtwVTDhNTJ7SA6
Contacts: info@hopeww.org.ua
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The Project continues previous initiatives of the “HOPE worldwide Ukraine” Charity Foundation, which included trainings and supervision for volunteers, social workers, psychologists working with IDPs from Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk regions; therapy sessions for traumatized children. In 2016-2018 we trained specialists in Ukraine’s 24 regions; in 2019-2020 – we focused our efforts on those who continue to live and work in “red” zone of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Among the donors of the “Helping Hand for Ukraine” project in 20216-2020 are affiliate organizations in other countries – “HOPE worldwide Canada”, “HOPE worldwide” (USA), “HOPE worldwide Switzerland” charitable organisations, Ukrainian Credit Union (UCU, Canada). The Ukrainian Institute of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (Lviv, Ukraine) is our long-term partner of the project.
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