Key points
- In Vinnytsia, a new mental health center of the POVERNENNYA network for military personnel, veterans, and their families has started working.
- Every year, the center will provide free specialized psychological assistance to over 4,000 people.
- Assistance will be provided to military personnel, veterans, participants in combat operations, those released from captivity, and members of their families.
- A multidisciplinary team will work with visitors – psychiatrists, psychologists, and medical staff.
- Support will be provided free of charge on an outpatient basis or at the place of residence – they will work with stress, anxiety and depressive states, PTSD and psychotic states.
In Vinnytsia, a new mental health center of the all-Ukrainian POVERNENNYA network has started working, where every year over 4,000 military personnel, veterans, and members of their families will receive free specialized psychological assistance.
The center accepts military personnel, veterans, participants in combat operations, those released from captivity, as well as members of their families.
A multidisciplinary team works with visitors, which includes:
- psychiatrists;
- medical psychologist;
- clinical psychologist;
- medical nurse;
- medical brother;
- medical registrar.
Assistance is provided free of charge in an outpatient format or, if necessary, at the place of residence of visitors.
Specialists work with the consequences of stress, anxiety and depressive states, post-traumatic stress disorder, adaptive and psychosomatic difficulties, as well as psychotic states.
The center has offices for specialists for individual and family assistance, a group therapy room, a reception with a waiting area, a day hospital, a manipulation room, and inclusive sanitary units. There is also a pottery workshop.
Currently, the POVERNENNYA network has 15 centers – in Vinnytsia, Dnipro, Zhytomyr, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kropyvnytskyi, Lutsk, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Ternopil, Uzhhorod, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, and Chernihiv.
In the first stage of the project, it is planned to open 25 centers throughout Ukraine, which will be able to provide assistance to over 100,000 military personnel, veterans, and members of their families every year.
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