Ukraine Veterans Rehabilitation and Reintegration

programming dedicated to assisting Ukraine’s veterans identified the following key elements for veteran rehabilitation and reintegration: (1) The capacity of Ukraine to provide services and benefits to veterans; (2) provision of physical, psycho-social, and mental health support to veterans and their families; and (3) provision of legal and vocational assistance. Furthermore, the Government of Ukraine has identified the reintegration of veterans as both a need and as a driver of Ukraine’s recovery as veterans with key professional skillsets return to the workforce. This initiative will guide Government of Ukraine and civil society efforts to bring current veteran support structures to the scale needed for national recovery, and provide targeted, evidence-based, direct support to veterans who have left active duty and the practitioners who assist them. In addition, this initiative must include innovative interventions such as (but not restricted to) public-private partnerships to facilitate the re-entry of veterans into key industries. It must also directly address the changing nature of Ukraine’s veteran population, such as the growth in the number of women, as well as sexual and gender minorities, who are, or will become, veterans.