Center of Excellence in Child and Adolescent Mental Health in war-affected contexts

We turn frontline experience with children into evidence, professional practice and systemic solutions — so that war does not define the future of a generation.

Gen.Hope

Why Gen.Hope

Childhood in war requires more than crisis response.

For millions of Ukrainian children, war is not a single traumatic event — it is the environment in which they are growing up.

Supporting them requires more than individual interventions. It requires long-term solutions that connect children and families with professionals, schools, public institutions and evidence-based practice.

Gen.Hope was created to build this connection.

The Gen.Hope Model

Gen.Hope is developing a model of recovery for children growing up during and after war. We recognise trauma, but do not define a child by it. We focus on the individual, family and social resources that help children recover, continue developing and build their future.

Case Management

Continuous, individual support for a child and family throughout the recovery journey — from first contact to longer-term care and social inclusion.
Data & Research

We turn programme experience and ethically collected data into evidence about children’s needs, recovery and what works in war-affected contexts.
Community of Practitioners

We connect and support psychologists, educators, researchers and other professionals through training, supervision and shared practice.
Memorialisation

We preserve and ethically document children’s experiences of war, ensuring their voices become part of collective memory rather than being lost or reduced to statistics.
Advocacy

We translate evidence and practice into recommendations, standards and policy change so that effective support can reach children through public systems.

The Gen.Hope Center

A physical home for the Gen.Hope model

Gen.Hope is being developed by Gen.Ukrainian in partnership with the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE).

Its dedicated Center at the KSE Campus will bring psychological support, research, professional education and multidisciplinary collaboration together under one roof.

It will be a place where practitioners, researchers, educators and public-sector partners work side by side to develop, test and improve solutions for children growing up in war and crisis.

Dr. Victor G.Carrion

Director of the Stanford Early Life Stress and Resilience Program

Ragnhild Dybdahl

The Global Mental Health, expert Norwegian Institute of Public Health & Associate Professor at University of Bergen

Dennis Ougrin

Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Global Mental Health at Queen Mary University of London

Valeriia Palii

Academic Director of Psychology Programs at KSE, NPA vice-president

Oleksandra Romantsova

Director of the Center for Civile Liberties NGO

Anton Drobovych

Head of Human Rights and War Memorialization Center at KSE

Emily Goodman-Scott

Professor and School Counseling Coordinator at Old Dominion University

Ksenia Voznitsyna

Director of the Lisova Polyana Mental Health and Rehabilitation Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine

Natalia Tulinova

CEO and founder of the Zdorovi agency

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100% of the funds raised support our mission to protect childhood in Ukraine

Together, we can help children recover from the impact of war, protect their ability to develop and imagine a future, and build a system of support that will stay with this generation for as long as it is needed.

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