2025-11-14T13:00:07-06:00 2024-12-31 463978706 Steven Lissner & Company LLC 333 Route 46 Suite 206 Mountain Lakes NJ 07046 990EZ 2024-01-01 920832920 Friends of Chervonohrad Inc C/O Alan Karpas FRIE 9734779989 2 Clements Court Roseland NJ 070683713 ALAN KARPAS Board Member 9734779989 2025-11-14 1 1 Steven Lissner CPA P00105761 9739174080 2025-11-14 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X https://www.friendsofchervonohrad.com/ X X 11516 X 11516 11516 16345 16345 -4829 5866 0 1037 5866 1037 5866 1037 0 0 5866 1037 X Friends of Chervonohrad (FoC) is an organization with a mission to provide direct support to the community in Chervonohrad, Ukraine, 30 miles from the Polish border, which has seen a large influx of refugees from more dire parts of Ukraine impacted by war and a large number of its own people drawn to the front lines of the war. It operates as 501c3 organization with all of its donations being tax deductible under ID 92-0832920. Its co-founders are siblings Roman Malantchouk and Natalia Sawka, both of whom have been born and raised in Chervonohrad, still have much of their family residing there and therefore have close ties to the community. A week-long training session on intensive group therapy was held for military psychologists: "You Are Not Alone.From May 13 to May 18, 2024, a training on intensive group therapy, "You Are Not Alone. Support is Nearby," was held for military psychologists in Velyatyno (Zakarpattia region). The training was organized by the NGO "Community Self-Help" with financial support from the Ukrainian diaspora organization "Friends of Chervonohrad and in partnership with the Military Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (MIKNU) and the NGO Rotary Club "Kyiv Pectoral."Under the memorandum signed between the Military Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (MIKNU) and the NGO "Community Self-Help," a training program for military psychologists was developed. The "Intensive Group Therapy" program provides the necessary training to address mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other emotional states resulting from the war."Intensive group therapy focuses on overcoming trauma, finding hope, and love to move forward. When I heard these words from the trainers, I realized that this is the program Ukrainian psychologists need to be effective in situations of distress," said Vitaliy Kharechko, chairman of the board of the NGO "Community Self-Help. And although the preparation and organization of the training required significant efforts from both our organization and our partners, today we can confidently say that the military psychologists have restored their resources, gained new knowledge and skills, and joined the best global psychotherapeutic practices." 0 0 The NGO Community Self-Help is a vital implementing partner in Ukraine of the project 'Supporting Child Mental Health in De-Occupied Territories of Ukraine', jointly implemented by the Margaret C. Ryan Global Health Program at Boston Children's Hospital (USA) and the NGO Community Self-Help (Ukraine). The initiative provides mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) for children and their families in the de-occupied territories of Ukraine by training civil-military cooperation officers, police, SES, and mobile teams to deliver effective psychosocial support in the de-occupied regions, thereby laying the foundation for long-term mental health support in the area.Our goal is to create a system that will provide access to psychosocial support for children in the de-occupied and frontline areas - from the first meeting with the relevant services to professional therapeutic support, reduce the negative impact of war on children, and promote their gradual emotional and social recovery.Relevance.Children's psyche is particularly vulnerable to the effects of war, violence and separation from loved ones. The project takes into account the need to work not only with children, but also with parents, guardians and communities.Training courseThe Global MHPSS Training Course aims to provide trauma-informed MHPSS skills to children and their families in the de-occupied territories for psychologists from the police, SES, civil-military cooperation, and mobile brigades through five trainings in five de-occupied regions, thereby laying the foundation for long-term mental health support in the region. 0 0 Providing medical and humanitarian support for hospitals and Defenders of Ukraine. Ukraine is now facing an extreme deficit of medical supplies and drugs for hospitals, which save the lives of the civilian population. Through its networks of longtime trusted contacts in health care, NGOs, Ukrainian diaspora, and other communities, CSH is organizing the purchase of much-needed medical supplies in Ukraine and abroad and delivering them directly to the places and people who need them most. This includes hospitals in Lviv, Mykolayiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, and Kyiv oblast (Bucha, Borodyanka) 0 0 Andriy Vasiyschouk Board Member 2.00 0 0 0 Alan Karpas Board Member 2.00 0 0 0 Roman Malantchouk Board Member 2.00 0 0 0 Zack Sawka Board Member 2.00 0 0 0 Anna Savtchouk Board Member 2.00 0 0 0 Natalia Sawka President 2.00 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NJ Alan Karpas 2 Clements Court Roseland NJ 07068 9734779989 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 22611 11516 34127 22611 11516 34127 0 0 0 34127 22611 11516 34127 1.00000 1.00000 0.00000 X Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 - Other Expenses Description: PROGRAM SUPPLIES & SHIPPING TO UKRAINE. Amount: 16,345. The organization did not, during the year, receive any funds, directly,or indirectly, to pay premiums on a personal benefit contract.The organization, did not, during the year, pay any premiums, directly,or indirectly, on a personal benefit contract.