From November 26 to 28, Kyiv hosted the Mental Health Forum “Human Resilience – System Resilience”. This three-day event served as a platform for sharing experiences and developing solutions to build the mental health system and services in Ukraine during the ongoing war and the country’s recovery process. The participants of the event included representatives […]
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On October 21-27, Kyiv hosted the Training for Trainers of the Emotional and Physical Recovery Program. The Center for Mind-Body Medicine Specialists (CMBM, USA) trained 42 Program trainers over 7 intensive days. The Emotional and Physical Recovery Program is a science-based program developed by mental health professionals that aims to equip participants with self-help tools
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The marathon of events for World Mental Health Day, which is celebrated on October 10, lasted almost the whole month for us and reached about 1,700 people. In October, with the support of the USAID PHS R&R project, 37 events were held in 20 communities in 8 focus regions. Among the events, 12 trainings and
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On October 7, on the eve of World Mental Health Day, the PHS R&R held an open ECHO session on “Self-harm – what is it? Peculiarities of working with young people who have had self-harming experiences”. An expert was Alina Kobets, a psychiatrist, trainer on the prevention of suicide and self-harming behavior of young people
From July 31 to August 2, a community of practice meeting was held in Yaremche, Ivano-Frankivsk Region, titled “Mind-Body Medicine: Experience Exchange and Professional Development”. Nearly 50 Mind-Body Medicine facilitators and coordinators from nine regions attended this event. These professionals, trained by PHS R&R, have led groups within their communities under this program. Over the
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Researchers of the European Institute of Public Health Policy participated in the 25th International AIDS Conference “AIDS 2024”, which was held from July 22 to 26, 2024 in Munich (Germany). On July 24, during the poster session of the event, our scientist Iryna Zaviriukha presented data on the resilience of Peer Navigation among HIV Positive
On July 5, a coordination meeting of the network of the “Taking Care of Myself” psychosocial support spaces was held in Kyiv. The event gathered participants from different parts of Ukraine to discuss the first experience, further development, and collaboration on developing a system of mental health and psychosocial support services. The meeting was opened
On June 19, 2024, we held the final ECHO session of the seven-year research project “Integrating Addiction Treatment and HIV Services into Primary Care Clinics in Ukraine”, which aimed to study the effectiveness of the integrated model of health care services in primary care clinics and interventions to improve the quality of health care services
CETA practitioners met in Kyiv to share their experience of a year of work providing psychological support to Ukrainians experiencing war-related stress. Almost a year ago, 40 psychosocial service providers from the focus communities and partner organizations of the USAID PHS R&R project were trained and subsequently certified in the CETA (Common Elements Treatment Approach).
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This week, Yale University, USA, is accepting scholars from the “International Visiting Fellow Program” – an international program to support scientists who conduct research in the field of HIV in their countries in cooperation with colleagues from Yale. This week, Yale University, USA, is accepting scholars from the “International Visiting Fellow Program” – an international