On June 12, 2024, certificates were awarded to new trainers of the “Children and War. Teaching Recovery Techniques” program in Kyiv. The project manager and lead psychologist of the “Helping Hand for Ukraine” project, Iryna Sukhova, psychologist Oleksiy Sukhov, and the coordinator of this group of trainers, Olha Posternak, congratulated 24 new specialists from Kyiv, as well as Kamiansky, Dnipropetrovsk region, and Bila Tserkva of Kyiv region.
To receive certificates, after theoretical training all trainers conducted therapy groups for children and parents affected by war. Some sessions were held live, others online. “We chose the online format to provide an opportunity for people from small towns and abroad to join the program and process their traumatic experience,” said one of the new trainers of this group, Olha Khoptyar. – But when the participants and trainers faced problems with black-outs, we were surprised how motivated our participants were: they looked for Wi-Fi in cafes and asked to send materials for self-training. It inspired everyone: our work was very important.”
“The awarding of certificates took place on the day when there was a heavy storm in Kyiv: cars were “sinking”, city transport was at a standstill, the roads were collapsing,” Iryna Sukhova shared her impressions. – Therefore, unfortunately, not everyone was able to “swim” to the meeting place and take a joint photo. However, those who were absent sent congratulations in messengers. They received certificates later per mail. We wish the new trainers of the “Children and War. Teaching Recovery Techniques” program further fruitful work!”
The project took place in cooperation with the Center for Professional Development of the City of Kyiv. We are sincerely grateful to the Canada-Ukraine Foundation for the financial assistance!
