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Nathalie Timtchenko

Nathalie Robelot Timtchenko is the founder and executive director of First Aid of the Soul, a US-registered 501c(3) nonprofit with a presence in Ukraine that has delivered free and accessible mental health care to nearly 20,000 Ukrainians and trained thousands of local clinicians. She received her Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Expressive Arts Therapy from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received the prestigious Harvard Kennedy School Lucius N. Littauer Award for community building and service.

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Why the West must support the mental health of Ukraine's defenders

by Nathalie Timtchenko
As Ukraine continues to seek ways to sustain its army and its citizens, the country's mental health crisis has long been deprioritized, and the West is doing little to address it. Without systematic intervention now, overlooked trauma could become embedded in Ukraine's demographic future, with repercussions for generations to come. Given that Ukraine's resources are spread thin, it is unlikely that the country will substantially allocate them to the dire mental health needs, as all immediate p