Currently, more than 31,000 older people who have registered as IDPs live in Lviv Oblast.
More than 10,000 people with disabilities found shelter in the region. There are also many who do not register, but live in our region and need support.
It is for the sake of these categories of the population that the network of assisted living centers continues to be developed in the Lviv Region.
“According to the Comprehensive program of mental health care and psychosocial support, centers for inpatient care and assisted living have begun to be created in our region. Projects are already being implemented in Mykolaiv and Pidkamen. Thanks to Caritas, which was one of the first to actively help us in this direction, with the support of the Ukrainian-Swiss project “Mental Health for Ukraine”, we jointly managed to create centers in Stryi, Drohobych and two centers in Lviv. NGO “Workshop of Dreams” and NGO “Destigma” greatly strengthen us in Mykolaiv. With the support of international benefactors, renovations are underway at the future center in Lopatyna. A center for inpatient care was created in Zabolotsi. Special thanks to the specialists of the advisory centers that we deployed in all districts of the region, for the fact that they, together with partners, established free centers of quality communication, training, assistance and leisure for people with disabilities and the elderly. In 2024, we plan to provide a resource in the regional budget in order to, on the basis of co-financing, help communities that will create centers of supported living”, – stressed the head of the Lviv OVA, Maksym Kozytskyi.
To the topic: In Lviv Oblast, during the “Social Support Services” forum, elderly people and people with disabilities talked about their implementation.
One of these centers is under the auspices of the public organization “Dream Workshop”. Here, they have created conditions as close as possible to family ones: from self-cooking to maintaining cleanliness and order in one’s rooms.
“The lives of young people who come to us change, because before that they lived in closed conditions, but here they got freedom. Of course, we have many challenges. The first is medicine, because most people come with a deficient disease. The second is adaptation. Most of all our residents have a difficult past, difficult experiences in their families,” said Anna Ivanicheva, the founder and head of the “Mastershop of Dreams” NGO.
In the “DIM” assisted living facility, they also teach how to cook, make beds, and wash clothes. 20 people with complex mental disorders aged 18 to 40 live here.
The multidisciplinary training and rehabilitation center of St. Nicholas has several departments. The main one is a school where students study from the 1st to the 13th grade. High school students combine studies at a regular school with studies at vocational and technical educational institutions of the Lviv region, where children receive practical knowledge. A hippotherapy project was implemented here for classes with children who have psycho-emotional disorders.
“We hire special education teachers, psychologists, rehabilitation specialists. We attract students. Also, among our teachers there are parents who went to study for their children,” said Iryna Lukachuk, the center’s deputy director for educational work.
Addresses of assisted living centers and leisure centers in Lviv Oblast:
Center for inpatient care in the village of Zabolotsi (Shpitalna Street, 15)
Hospice. with. Mizhenets
Inpatient Care Center Novy Yarychiv (44 Nezalezhnosti St.)
Center for Supported Living “HOME” in Stryi (Created by “Caritas” NGO with the support of MH4U, 74 Lvivska St.)
Center for Supported Living. 4 Makoveya St., Lviv
Center for Supported Living. Lviv “Dream Workshop” str. Pogulyanka, 9
Center “Nazareth” (Drohobytsky district, Dobrivlyany)
Institution at the religious community. with. Spade
“Help Age” leisure center, Lviv, str. Volodymyr Velyky, 14A
“Help Age” leisure center, Drohobych, str. Volodymyr the Great, 5
“Help Age” leisure center, Novoyavorivsk, str. Taras Shevchenko, 1
“Help Age” leisure center, Sambir, str. Copernicus, 6
“Help Age” leisure center, Morshyn, str. Privokzalna, 61
“Help Age” leisure center, Stryi, str. Stepana Bandera, 24
“Help Age” leisure center, Chervonograd, Shevchenko Avenue, 15
There are already more than 350 psychosocial assistance centers in the region. You can find a detailed list of locations on the map.
LODA