Key points:
- The ninth mental health centre, RETURN, has opened in Kyiv.
- The centre will be able to help more than 4,000 military personnel, veterans and their families every year.
- Assistance is provided free of charge at a state medical facility.
- There are plans to expand the RETURN network to 25 centres across Ukraine.
The ninth centre of the all-Ukrainian network of mental health centres RETURN, created to support military personnel, veterans and their families who have suffered the psychological consequences of war, has begun operating in Kyiv.
The project was founded by Viktor and Olena Pinchuk. The new centre is located in one of the capital’s key medical facilities. It operates on an outpatient basis and provides free assistance, covering more than 4,000 military personnel, veterans and their close family members each year.
The centre helps people with:
- post-traumatic stress disorder;
- anxiety and depression;
- psychosomatic symptoms;
- difficulties adapting to peaceful life.
The centre’s space is designed to make people feel safe and comfortable, with rooms for individual and group therapy, a day hospital ward, a treatment room and a waiting area.
A team of doctors and psychologists works with patients, as well as a nurse and a specialist who accompanies veterans, helping to take into account not only the emotional state of the person, but also their life circumstances.
The RETURN project is also involved in training specialists. Together with Ukrainian and international experts, the team implements educational programmes for psychologists and doctors to improve the quality of care and promote modern approaches to working with psychological trauma.
Currently, the network of centres operates in nine cities in Ukraine, including Kyiv, Dnipro, Chernihiv, Lutsk, and Poltava. The project’s founders plan to establish 25 such centres across the country to provide support to more than 100,000 military personnel, veterans, and their family members each year.
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