End of the Academic Year

In June, we concluded our academic year for people with mental health conditions and their families.

Over nine months, NGO specialists Kostiantyn Zelenov and Ihor Nazarenko conducted 3 cycles of free seminars for relatives of people with mental health conditions and one closed psychosocial support group for relatives.

Additionally, within the framework of the Relatives' and Legal Representatives' Meeting Club, there were 9 meetings with mental health specialists and 2 joint trips to Kyiv theaters.

During this time, we created a space for people with mental health conditions where they learned to:

🧠 recognize the signs of their condition together with the head of the psychotherapeutic group, Ihor Nazarenko;

🎨 create and be themselves under the guidance of art therapist Maryna Nesterchuk;

🤝 independently organize their leisure time and showcase their abilities in the "Peer-to-Peer" group with Tetiana Surina, Olena Mykytenko, Viktoriia Shevchenko, Valentyna Chernieva, and Liliia Petriichuk.

We thank everyone who supported our activities and fueled the belief that no diagnosis is a sentence. Specifically: Methodologist of the Social Services Center Larisa Ostrolutska, human rights defender Larisa Tatarinova, Head of the NGO "Ukrainian Strategy of Zelensky," Kyiv entrepreneur Dmytro Zelinskyi, psychiatrist Vitalii Shchurenko, Head of the Mental Health Center of Kyiv City Clinical Hospital No. 8 Viktoriia Ivanova, Oksana Sokolovska, and Oksana Kutsenko ❤