This 3-hour online webinar provides an opportunity for mutual learning and exchange regarding psychosocial needs of veterans, their families and communities. The meeting is a starting point to set priorities for building capacity, for funding, and for networking to arrive at effective and encompassing solutions that serve Ukrainian veterans, their families and communities wherever they are.
The main questions are: What are good examples of methods or measures that work in your country? What are the challenges?
We bring together veterans services, NGOs, practitioners, researchers and funders to help build capacity and bring resources to where they are most needed.
The event will be simultaneously translated between English and Ukrainian.
| As part of this initiative, we also run a Delphi expert panel to help set psychosocial support priorities for work with families of Ukrainian military personnel, veterans and their communities. Are you working in this area? Then we would appreciate it if you could participate in the 3-round panel consultation, which you can access here: Ukrainian version; English version |
Topics that will be covered in the webinar are:
- Status and situation today
- Needs and challenges
- Good examples of veteran work
- Next steps: Follow-up webinars, networks, and projects
Program:
Norway | Ukraine | Presenter – Topic |
| 13:00 | 14:00 | |
13:10 | 14:10 | Serhiy Burov, EHRH-Chernihiv |
| Olga Horbanyova, Coordination Center for Mental Health of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine – People with war experience. Dignity. Interaction | ||
| Mike Baskin, The Resilience Group - Adapting & Evolving: Perspective from the U.S. Veteran Ecosystem and Experience | ||
| 14:30 | 15:30 | Nora Sveaass, MHHRI |
– United in Resilience: Supporting Military Families, Veterans, and Helpers - Experience of AHALAR Centre | ||
Luminify by Aspichi: A VR-Based Mental Health Program for Veterans and War-Affected People | ||
| Lesia Bondarenko, Experience Center for Mental Health and Rehabilitation of Veterans 'Lisova Polyana'" in Veteran Recovery – Experience of the Center for Psychological Health and Rehabilitation of Veterans "Lisova Polyana" of the Ministry of Health in the rehabilitation of veterans. Watch 2 min video presentation of the center | ||
| Anastasiia Yermolenko, European Anti-Corruption Initiative in Ukraine (EUACI) – Challenges and Barriers to Veterans' Reintegration in Ukraine: Mental and Social Obstacles to Employment | ||
| Oleksandr Tkachenko, TSNUK Veteran Development Center – Rehabilitation and Development Program "Veteran's Hata (House)" for Veterans and Their Family Members. To learn more, please watch this 4 min. promotional video for Veterans Hut; see also the Video about the opening of the Veteran Development Center | ||
The organizing committee
Yuriy Usovich, Yuriy Trofimenko & Wika Solonicyna (AHALAR, Chernihiv)
Les Simm (International Forum for Understanding, (IFOUND), Cambridge)
Elisabeth Langdal & Nora Sveaass (Mental Health and Human Rights Info (MHHRI), Oslo)
Beate Seibt & Helen Suizu Norheim (Solidarity Hub, University of Oslo)
Iryna Hubeladze & Anna Gromova (Institute for Social and Political Psychology (ISPP), National Academy of Educational Sciences, Ukraine)