Community Centres

Community Centres

A Community Centre is a safe, inclusive, and accessible space established to provide essential social services to those most in need. Operating as a single point of access, it enables individuals to receive comprehensive support in one location. In addition, the Community Centre serves as a platform for advocacy and collaboration with key stakeholders to promote sustainable community development.

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Benefits of Ukrainian Red Cross Community Centres

Advocacy — Community Centres provide insight into the availability and accessibility of existing social services and help to identify gaps, enabling the Ukrainian Red Cross to effectively assess, communicate, and advocate for community needs in coordination with partners, including government bodies.

Safe Space — Community Centres offer a secure, inclusive, and accessible environment for all individuals, irrespective of age, sex, gender, ethnicity, or religion.

Single Point of Access» — Community Centres serve as hubs, bringing together the resources of Ukrainian Red Cross programmes alongside those of governmental and non-governmental service providers. This integrated approach facilitates more efficient service delivery, promotes coordinated problem-solving, and enhances the organisation’s capacity to provide holistic support to all members of the community.

Resilience — Community Centres play a vital role in building community resilience. They unite residents to enhance local capacity, prepare for future crises, participate in decision-making processes, and collaboratively implement sustainable initiatives led by the Ukrainian Red Cross.

Purpose of Community Centres:

  • Providing comprehensive assistance to beneficiaries in meeting their essential needs
  • Supporting the psychosocial well-being of beneficiaries
  • Strengthening the capacity of communities to respond effectively to humanitarian needs
  • Promoting socio-economic opportunities within communities
  • Standardising the provision of social services
  • Enhancing coordination and the exchange of experience between programmes, departments, and regional and local branches of the Ukrainian Red Cross

Services of Community Centres:

  • Social counselling
    Personalised support for beneficiaries through analysis of life circumstances, identification of key challenges, development of tailored solutions, creation of step-by-step action plans, and referrals both within the Ukrainian Red Cross and to partner organisations. The outcomes of this support are monitored, and the effectiveness of interventions is evaluated.
  • Information and counselling services for beneficiaries
    Including first aid training, mine risk education, psychosocial support, outreach activities, restoring family links, humanistic education, international humanitarian law, and more.
  • Capacity-building activities for service providers
    Training sessions for specialists in areas such as psychological first aid, community health, stress resilience, and burnout prevention.
  • Activities delivered by partner organizations.
  • Provision of spaces
    Access to training rooms and coworking spaces in regional centres.
  • Community development services
    Covering needs assessments, development of local programmes, public information campaigns, and advocacy work.

Contacts for Ukrainian Red Cross Community Centres

Ukrainian Red Cross Community Centre – Zaporizhzhia:

Address: 40 Shevchenko Boulevard, Zaporizhzhia

Telephone: +380 (50)316-24-37

Opening hours: 08:00–18:00

Services available at the Community Centre:

  1. Social counselling
  2. First aid training
  3. Mine risk awareness
  4. Mental health and psychosocial support
  5. Youth space
  6. Mobile rehabilitation units (including an on-site rehabilitation room)
  7. Psychological support

Ukrainian Red Cross Community Centre – Vinnytsia

Address: 12A Soborna Street, Vinnytsia

Telephone: +380 (93) 500-05-92

Opening hours: 09:00–18:00

Services available at the Community Centre:

  1. Social counselling
  2. Information and referral services
  3. First aid training
  4. Blood donation
  5. Mental health and psychosocial support
  6. Group activities
  7. Reboot: Expanding Employment Opportunities

Ukrainian Red Cross Community Centre — Ladyzhyn

Address: 23 Protsyshyna Street, Ladyzhyn

Telephone: –

Opening hours: 08:00 – 17:00

Services available at the Community Centre:

  1. Social counselling
  2. Information and referral services
  3. Clothing bank
  4. First aid training
  5. Mine risk awareness
  6. Psychosocial support for children

Ukrainian Red Cross Community Centre — Shepetivka

Address: 55 Zaliznychna Street, Shepetivka

Telephone: +380 (97) 940-98-28

Opening hours: 09:00 – 18:00

Services available at the Community Centre:

  1. Social counselling
  2. Clothing bank
  3. Rental of rehabilitation equipment
  4. Hygiene support centre
  5. Community hairdressing salon
  6. Rest and relaxation room
  7. Mobile health unit
  8. Mental health and psychosocial support
  9. Humanistic education
  10. Psychological first aid
  11. First aid training
  12. Blood donation
  13. Active longevity club
  14. Information and referral services

Ukrainian Red Cross Community Centre — Korop

Address: 16 Nezalezhnosti Street, Korop village

Telephone: +380(68) 673-48-39

Opening hours: 08:00 – 17:00

Services available at the Community Centre:

  1. Social counselling
  2. Active longevity club
  3. Clothing bank
  4. Rental of rehabilitation equipment
  5. Community hairdressing salon
  6. Home-based care
  7. Mental health and psychosocial support
  8. Blood donation
  9. Information and referral services
  10. Youth space