THIRD MENTAL HEALTH FORUM
of Mental Health Workers
5–6 November 2025, Kyiv
Agenda
Time (GMT+2)
Topic
Speakers
8:00 — 10:00
Registration, welcome coffee
10:00 — 10:30
Opening ceremony
10:30 — 11:00
Results of the implementation of the All-Ukrainian Mental Health Program
Oksana Zbitnieva Head of the Coordination Center for Mental Health of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Head of NGO "Barrier-Free"
11:00 — 12:00
Overview of the recent research in the field of mental health:
• The protection and psychosocial support needs in the frontline communities
• Mental health needs and access to care
• Results of the study of mental health self-assessment of the service users and the capacities of the community-level providers
• Training of non-medical professionals in the field of mental health: current challenges, society’s expectations and market demand
• Global progress of the mental health systems and Ukraine through the lens of the WHO Mental Health Atlas 2024
Mackenzie Seaman Research Manager, Humanitarian Needs and Monitoring Unit, REACH
Denise AssafHealth Information Management Unit Lead, WHO Country Office in Ukraine
Olha HorbanovaHead of Regional Coordination, Expert at the Coordination Center for Mental Health of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
Anastasiia HolotenkoExpert at the Coordination Center for Mental Health of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
Fahmy HannaMental Health Expert, WHO Headquarters in Geneva
12:00 — 12:30
Panel discussion
From varied professions to shared vision of a person’s needs: cross-sectoral collaboration in the field of mental health
• What is already working today?
• Where the care starts and ends in each sector/field?
• Wellbeing of health care providers in the context of the ongoing war
• Cross-sectoral collaboration as a source of recovery and growth
Moderator: Olha HorbanovaHead of Regional Coordination, Expert at the Coordination Center for Mental Health of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
Speakers:
Yevgeniya FilenkoPsychologist at the Centre for Professional Development of Teaching Staff, School Psychologist
Iryna ZadorozhniaRegional Coordinator of the All-Ukrainian Mental Health Program “How Are You?” in Kherson Oblast
Iryna ViraSocial Manager at the Resilience Centre, Consultant, Bilozirska hromada (Cherkasy Oblast)
Tetyana LukashchukPsychologist at Veteran Hub, Chernivtsi City
Oksana DzhamDirector of the Bucha Primary Health Care Centre (Kyiv Oblast)
13:30 — 14:15
Panel discussion
A professional as a core of the mental health system’s development: sectoral solutions and cross-sectoral cooperation in the framework of the All-Ukrainian Mental Health Program
Moderator:Anastasiia HolotenkoExpert at the Coordination Center for Mental Health of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
Speakers:
Kateryna PavlichenkoDeputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
Yuliia KirillovaDeputy Minister of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine
Mykola TrofymenkoDeputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine
Inna SolodkaDeputy Minister of Social Policy, Family and Unity of Ukraine
Uliana TokarievaDeputy Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine
14:15 — 15:15
Panel discussion
Scalable psychological interventions: a tool in the hands of every professional
• Doing What Matters in Times of Stress individual intervention — the experience of a veteran and a professional
• Self-Help Plus group intervention — the experience of a Resilience Сentre’s professional
• Problem Management Plus individual intervention — the experience of a Mental Health Centre’s psychologist
• First time experience of the implementation of EASE group intervention for adolescents in Ukraine
• Stepped care approach to implementing psychological interventions
Moderator:
Ganna LegkovaSpecialist on Psychological Interventions, WHO Country Office in Ukraine
Speakers:
Svitlana KaminskaResearch Associate at the Institute of Psychiatry, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Oleksii KovalevskyiVeteran, Leading Specialist at the Institute of Psychiatry, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Iryna SmiianenkoPsychologist at the Resilience Centre, Vilnohirsk City (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast)
Khrystyna PankivPsychologist at the Mental Health Centre, Nadvirna City (Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast)
Dariia PashyntsevaProject Coordinator and Trainer at the NGO “All-Ukrainian Public Centre “Volunteer”
15:15 — 15:45
Coffee break and networking
15:45 — 16:45
Panel discussion
Sustainable development of competencies based on sustainable training approaches — a case of mhGAP programme
• Competency-based approach as a foundation of effective learning
• Combining efforts for results
• What ensures sustainability?
• Wellbeing of care and training providers
Moderator:
Iryna MykychakAdvisor to the Minister of Health of Ukraine – Mental Health Projects Coordinator
Speakers:
Serhii UbohovHead of the Department of Medical Personnel, Education and Science, Ministry of Health of Ukraine
Daria YurchykSpecialist on Integrated Mental Health Services, WHO Country Office in Ukraine
Orest SuvaloPsychiatrist, Executive Director of the Institute of Mental Health, Ukrainian Catholic University; Project Manager of the Ukrainian-Swiss project “Mental Health for Ukraine”
Anna SaienkoDeputy Director for Programmes, International Charitable Foundation “Ukrainian Foundation for Public Health”
Yurii SichDeputy Director of the InterFamily Clinic, Family Doctor, Uzhhorod City
Olena KolodenkoDirector of Primary Health Care Centre No. 3, Odesa City
Victoria SerhiyenkoVice-Rector for Scientific, Pedagogical and Scientific Work at Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University
16:45 — 17:00
Summary
Closure of Day 1 and briefing on Day 2
Fahmy HannaMental Health Expert, WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Time (GMT+2)
Topic
Speakers
12:00
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Marketplace
Resilience-cultivating workshops
Emotional relaxation area from “How Are You?” and UNICEF
Kind Words Bank area from PrivatBank and “How Are You?”
13:00 — 13:45
Lecture “How to find new meanings for those who return and those who await the return”
Viktor KomarenkoSenior Officer of the Psychological Support Department of the Third Army Corps, Major
13:45 — 14:30
Lecture “Myths and truths about the experience of captivity and forced isolation: what society should know to be supportive”
Yuliia YevstratovaChief Specialist of the Post-Isolation Support and Work with Families of Prisoners of War Department, the Repatriation and Reintegration Measures Directorate, the Civil-Military Cooperation Central Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Major
15:30
Closure of the Forum
Registration
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