As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year, more and more veterans- often young men - return home and find that settling into civilian life is almost impossible after their frontline experiences. Many suffer from PTSD and too many end up turning to alcohol or even end up taking their own life as a result of their psychological traumas.

PTSD UKRAINE is a cooperation project between Trauma Experts and Psychologists from Ukraine, UK, Germany, Sweden and Denmark. We run training programs for Ukrainian volunteer workers to better enable them to detect early signs of PTSD and other combat issues,so that they can help refer veterans in danger to professional help. WE also run training programs for Psychologists to enable them to work with combat veterans that suffer mental health issues.

Due to lack of funding in Ukraine we rely on donations from volunteers to conduct training sessions, help cover travel costs etc for participants,produce support material etc.

We aim to train 450 Ukrainian volunteers and 150 Ukrainian Psychologists in 2018.

In the longer run we aim to establish a specialist centre in four regional cities (Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro and Kharkiv) where veterans can receive treatment and support free of charge, and assistance to return to civilian life.