April 09, 2021 – “HOPE worldwide Ukraine” Charity Foundation has held “Children and War. Teaching Recovery Techniques” training in Lysychansk on April 03-05, 2021. Eighteen psychologists, social workers, educators and volunteers from Lysychansk, Severodonetsk, Starobilsk, Kalmykivka, Zolote and Novopskov in Luhansk region have participated in the training. The training is the second 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 participants along with the trainers’ team, Iryna Sukhova, Nataliya Podoliak and Olena Bozhor, discussed the natural reaction to stressful traumatic situations and ways of preventing the development of PTSD symptoms and depression in children who witnessed war. They also learned and practiced the techniques of self-regulation and relaxation. Practical exercise during the training provide a better understanding of how the techniques work and how to use them effectively while working with children. Within the Project the participants who will conduct therapy courses with children and parents after the training will receive supervision and methodological support.
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.
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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 other 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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