Heroes Among Us
6/10/2025
Workshop for Veteran Support Specialists was Held in Zaporizhzhia
How should veteran support specialists respond to defenders' requests and provide quality assistance and support? This important topic became the key focus during a meeting held in Zaporizhzhia, as part of the "Speak Up. Veteran" project. The event, held in a new "Veteran PRO. Zaporizhzhia" hub, brought together support specialists and professionals from the veteran sector, who daily work with veterans, active military personnel, and demobilised individuals."Such meetings are incredibly important, because the profession of veteran support specialist has appeared recently, and despite the established legal framework, some questions arise anyway from request to request. There are cases which require more attention, deeper study, and during these events there is an opportunity to raise some issues, to learn from the experience of other support specialists.Since our centre's opening, which has been operating for a month, we have provided assistance to approximately 400 veterans and member