Tvoya Opora Foundation Launches Free Family Mental Wellness Center in Vorzel (Bucha District) The Tvoya Opora Charitable Foundation is opening a Free Family Mental Wellness Center in the town of Vorzel, located in the Bucha District. The center’s professional team will provide psychological support for children and their families from vulnerable and low-income backgrounds, helping them cope with the mental health consequences of war, build emotional resilience, and support mental recovery and holistic development.

Opening Soon: Free Family Mental Wellness Center for War-Affected Families

Destroyed homes, burned yards, shattered families, and stolen lives — this is the grim reality that war has brought to Ukraine’s cities and villages. One of the hardest-hit regions during the first days of the full-scale invasion was Bucha District, where Russian forces committed nearly 9,000 war crimes. Intimidation, torture, sexual violence, and the deaths of over 1,500 civilians left local residents in a nightmare during 33 days of occupation.

But the damage wasn’t only physical. The psychological trauma — especially among children — continues to run deep. These young survivors, forced to grow up too quickly, face anxiety, PTSD, depression, and more. That's why establishing a professional mental health center is not just vital for the Bucha community, but for all of Ukraine.

“At the Tvoya Opora Center, families from across the country will receive free psychological support. This center will help our nation begin to heal,” says Lesia Karnaukh, Deputy Head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration.

The Tvoya Opora Family Mental Wellness Center represents a comprehensive support system led by professionals specializing in trauma therapy for children and their families.

The nearly 500-square-meter facility will include seven therapeutic zones for psychological relief, creativity and sports, developmental play, sensory-motor stimulation, and consultations with psychologists, speech therapists, and special educators.

In the facility’s safe shelter, a unique sensory room will offer psychological rehabilitation for children. This space helps stimulate healthy sensory development using carefully selected stimuli. It supports social and emotional adaptation and helps in treating PTSD, neuroses, anxiety disorders, hyperactivity, and adaptation difficulties. One dedicated zone — the psychological relief room — will offer therapy through sensory integration, sand therapy, and Snoezelen therapy.

“War leaves not only physical scars but also long-lasting psychological wounds. These impacts will be felt for years after victory,” says Valeriia Tatarchuk, founder and CEO of Tvoya Opora Foundation.
“That’s why this project — the Family Mental Wellness Center — means so much to us. It’s a natural continuation of our work over the past 10 years in medical, humanitarian, and educational aid, orphan care, and operating Ukraine’s largest shelter for displaced families in Lviv.”

The Center is set to open by the end of 2023. Renovations are nearly complete, and furniture and equipment are being installed — all made possible through the support of partners and kind-hearted Ukrainians.