Community Centers of UNESCO - Chernobyl Programme - Psychological Support Model for Population in a Postcatastrophe Crisis. Oksana Garnets, UNESCO-Chernobyl Programme Project Coordinator, Ph.D. in Psychology 1, Instytutskaya St. Room 78, Kyiv, 252001, Ukraine, telephone/fax 380 44 228 46 72
Community Centers for Psychosocial Rehabilitation created within UNESCO - Chernobyl Programme (Project # 64) are aimed at providing psychological support to population suffered from the catastrophe. Centers are located in communities that in different ways suffered from Chernobyl -- people evacuated and relocated from the contaminated territories, people who are still living in contaminated regions, employees of the nuclear power plant etc.
Centres are providing psychological support to people suffered from Chernobyl catastrophe, trough developing adaptive behavior models under living conditions that changed -- both ecological and social & economic crises, developing of personal and social responsibility in community members. The professionals of Community Centers implement activities aimed on coping victimization, on community interaction and communities restructuring. They are working with all age and social groups in the communities, with acute crises and suicide prevention, creating mutual support mechanisms. Centres performance results in decrease of psychosocial tension and anxiety in population. Centers present successfully functioning model of social and psychological support under complicated ecological and social conditions in post soviet countries. They have accumulated unique professional and organizational experience of efficient work in a post-catastrophe period under social and economic crisis.
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