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From November 8 – 14, the creators of the Mind-Body Medicine Psychosocial Support Program, based at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine (Washington, D.C.), were visiting Ukraine in a group led by Dr. James Gordon. The visit included group supervisions run by American experts in Kyiv and Ivano-Frankivsk, for representatives of 12 regions of Ukraine who, […]

In November, we are conducting the final round of online supervisory reviews for health care professionals who have been trained in the Self-Help Plus program as part of the USAID Public Health System Recovery and Resilience Activity. A total of 139 specialists from 8 regions of Ukraine covered by the project received stress management skills

On October 18-20, the First Mental Health Forum on “Moving Towards Mental Health System & Services of the Future: Case of Building Back and Forward Better in Ukraine” hosted by Ukraine was held in Kyiv. The event was organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Mental Health Coordination Center under the Cabinet of

USAID Public Health System Recovery and Resilience Activity and NGO Barrier-Free, the Executive Partner of the All-Ukrainian Mental Health Program Initiated by First Lady Olena Zelenska, Signed a Memorandum of Cooperation. The signing of the memorandum is yet another confirmation of both sides’ readiness to continue cooperation both during the war and Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction

On August 30, the Mental Health Coordination Center of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine held a seminar on regional coordination within the framework of the All-Ukrainian Mental Health Program initiated by First Lady Olena Zelenska. Mental health coordinators from the USAID Public Health System Recovery and Resilience activity participated in the workshop. The seminar

Earlier this week, the NGO Resource Center “Lisova Polyana” presented the Model of a Mental Health Recovery Center for War Victims based on the experience of the Center for Mental Health and Rehabilitation of Veterans “Lisova Polyana” of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. The event was opened by Ksenia Voznitsyna, Director of the Lisova

The 12th IAS Conference on HIV Science took place in Brisbane, Australia, and virtually from 23 to 26 July 2023. The 12th IAS Conference on HIV Science, organized by the International AIDS Society (IAS), is the world’s most influential meeting on HIV research and its applications. This biennial conference presents the critical advances in basic, clinical

Training for two groups of 20 specialists from Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Odessa, Ternopil, Chernivtsi, and Chernihiv regions was held in Kyiv from May 29 to June 9, and July 3 to 14, 2023. Providers of psychosocial services from focal communities and partner organizations of the USAID project “Public Health System Recovery and Resilience Activity”

We present the results of the work of our Institute’s research team at the XX World Congress of the International Sociological Association, which is being held in Melbourne (Australia) from June 25 to July 1, 2023, in a hybrid format – in-person and online. Our scientist Iryna Zaviriukha gave reports on the topics “How Covid-19

On May 29, within the framework of the USAID «Public Health System Recovery and Resilience Activity» project, we began training mental health service providers from focal communities and partner organizations on the CETA program (The Common Elements Treatment Approach). During a ten-day intensive training with trainers from the Mental Health Center of the National University