Creating an Asset-map

for Veterans of the Joint

Forces Operation in Ukraine

Yuliia Kokoiachuk, PhD

Head of the Social Work BA Program

Ukrainian Catholic University

The Ukrainian Catholic University has become the

first university in Ukraine to introduce the Service

Learning on an institutional level as a part of a new

UCU Strategy-2025 “A Serving University”

• Russia's war against Ukraine (since 2014 till now)

• Veteran status was granted to

369,451 people (July 1, 2019).

• Approximately 24,000 veterans

are residents of Lviv and Lviv

region (+ veterans’ families).

THE RELEVANCE OF THE PROJECT:

BASIC DATA

Idea and project design where made during the

CLAYSS course "Development of Service-learning projects"

Educational

Program:

Social work (BA)

Students:

2 year, 4

semester

Academic course: - Fundamentals of social

and legal protection

- Educational practice

Coordinators:

I. Krynytska, Y. Kokoiachuk

Contacting with organizations

/ Information Checking

Systematization of the

information / structuring

Collection of information

about organizations

Mapping (putting an

information about

organizations on the map)

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RESULT 1:

Tables of data of organizations Systematized by

- alphabetical and geographical principles,

- types of provided services.

RESULT 2.

An Asset-map with the data of institutions and

organizations for combatants (geographical

location, list of services, contact information)

Social impact

• combatants get a useful map with all organizations supporting combatants and their families

Educational impact

• students expand their knowledge of social organizations

• students develop skills of research and communication

• students find a lack of organizations providing social services

Community involvement

• students interact with social organizations • the developed map can used and developed by

organizations and their clients (existing and potential)

PROJECT PERSPECTIVES

Possible to implement online

Project development:

- adding organizations providing discounts to combatants, combatants business, etс

- mapping of organizations for other target groups

- the same organizations, but different regions

Interdisciplinarity for different programs (Social work, IT, Design, Media communications, Marketing)

Opportunities for academic collaboration (partner universities in Ukraine and abroad)

Thank you

for your attention!

kokoiachuk@ucu.edu.ua

+380977730685

ucu.edu.ua, socialwork.ucu.edu.ua

Yuliia Kokoiachuk, PhD Head of the Social Work BA Program

Ukrainian Catholic University

Lviv, Ukraine

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