Community capacities in protecting the rights and meeting the needs of Veterans

Moderator: Taras Tarasenko –
member of Ukrainian Parliament, Member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Social Policy and Protection of Veterans’ Rights, Head of the Interfactional Deputy Association “Rehabilitation Forces of Ukraine”

1. Nataliia Kalmykova – Minister of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine.
2. Svitlana Onyshchuk – Head of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration – Chief of the Regional Military Administration.

3. Ruslan Marcinkiv – Mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk.
4. Visvaldas Kulbokas – Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine, His Excellency Archbishop.

Morten Enberg – Director of the USAID ‘RADA: Next Generation’ Program (online).

1. Stanislav Onyshchuk – Head of the First Volunteer Surgical Hospital in Ivano-Frankivsk.
2. Mykhailo Volkov – Lawyer, founder of the company “Techno Consulting.”
3. Ihor Vintoniv – Charity Fund “Aid to a Comrade”
4. Igor Vovchuk – War veteran
5. Vasyl Boichuk – War veteran
6. Mykola Kroshnyi – Head of the “House of Warrior”
7. Larysa Stefanyshyn – member of the Council of Families of the Deceased at the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine from Ivano-Frankivsk region, volunteer
8. Oleksandr Kakhovsky – ATO/JFO Veteran 2014-2016, Veteran of the current stage of the war with Russia 2022-2024

Moderator: Andriy Shevchenko

1. Natalia Kalmykova – Minister of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine
2. Vadym Svyrydenko – Advisor to the Presidential Commissioner for Rehabilitation of Combatants
3. Tomasz Kowal – Consul for Political Affairs, Deputy Head of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Lviv
4. Oksana Savchuk – Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine PIC on legal status, social support, medical care for war veterans, servicemen and women, defenders and members of their families
5. Lyudmyla Sirko – Deputy Head of Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration
6. Vasyl Semaniuk – Director of the Social Policy Department of Ivano-Frankivsk City Council
7. Anastasia Selyaninova – acting head of the department of educational and analytical work of the Ukrainian Veterans Fund
8. Oleksandr Kakhovsky – ATO/JFO Veteran 2014-2016, Veteran of the current stage of the war with Russia 2022-2024
9. Iryna Savytska Digital memorials as a culture of commemoration in communities

• Moderator: Iryna Konstankevych – MP, First Deputy Head of the Committee, Head of the Subcommittee on National and Cultural Memory of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy
  
  1. Oleg Zub – Head of “Lvivskyi Mist” Law Firm
  2. Eduard Lapkovsky – Vice-Rector of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University
  3. Rostyslav Hudzinskyi – Director of the Charity Fund ‘Warrior of Ukraine
  4. Anton Drobovych – Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory

Moderator: Iryna Borzova – Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Head of the Subcommittee on State Youth Policy of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Youth and Sports

1. Sergiy Tymofeyev– Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine
2. Едуард Прощук – Member of Parliament of Ukraine of the 9th convocation, President of the Federation of Freestyle Wrestling in Ivano-Frankivsk region, since 2018 – Vice President of the Ukrainian Wrestling Association
3. Dmytro Karabet – Deputy Head of Bohodychanske village. Veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war, combatant
4. Mykola Makar – representative of the Government Commissioner for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration
5. Myroslav Karabin – acting director of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Children’s and Youth Sports School, head of the NGO “Branch of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine in Ivano-Frankivsk Region
6. Kostyantyn Lyseyko – acting head of the Department of Sports and Youth Policy of Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration
7. Roman Prymych – Head of the Veteran Policy Department of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Military Administration
8. Oleksandr Kakhovskyi – Veteran, co-founder of the NGO All-Ukrainian Union of Veterans “Combatant”, IVLP 2017 graduate on the topic of researching the US experience in supporting veterans, head of the NGO Club of US Government Programs Alumni
9. Andriy Kucher – Head of the Union of Wounded Soldiers of Ukraine “Strong 300”
10. Vsevolod Andrusiv – Chairman of the Advisory Council on Veterans and Families of the Fallen of Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration; Chairman of the Board of the NGO “Warrior of Ukraine”
11. Yuriy Hopanchuk is a war veteran who retired from the National Guard and was a speaker in Paris.
12. Vadym Petrunin – Director of iHUB, veteran, head of the Veteran Policy Department of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Military Administration
13. Roman Prymych – veteran, Head of the Veteran Policy Department of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Military Administration

Moderator: Tetiana Tsyba – member of Ukrainian Parliament, Member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Social Policy and Protection of Veterans’ Rights

Questions for discussion: War trauma and its consequences for veterans and their families, psychological support for veterans as a direction of rehabilitation; entities providing psychological support; issues in organizing and delivering psychological support; methods for promoting psychological support.”

Moderator: Vadym Petrunin – CEO of IHUB

Topics for discussion: Employment of veterans, bilateral adaptation between the collective and the veteran, the role of communities and businesses in veteran employment, the establishment and development of veteran-owned businesses, the community’s role in promoting veteran entrepreneurship, prerequisites for successful veteran entrepreneurship, and the systematization of approaches

Moderator: Taras Tarasenko –
member of Ukrainian Parliament, Member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Social Policy and Protection of Veterans’ Rights, Head of the Interfactional Deputy Association “Rehabilitation Forces of Ukraine”

Topics for discussion:
Veteran spaces – centers for veteran communities; a network; interaction among each other, efficiency of functioning; ways to improve efficiency