– “Postwar Traumatic Stress Recovery And Healthcare For Families of Wounded and Deceased Soldiers”.

 

“For Humanity” Charitable foundation, “After Matters” Foundation and “Maple Leafs” Armenian-Canadian clinic has launched a Pilot project – “Postwar Traumatic Stress Recovery And Healthcare For Families of Wounded and Deceased Soldiers”.

Our  mission  is to lift and empower the families of wounded and deceased soldiers. Our purpose is to aid the often-overlooked post-war recovery of families directly impacted by the September 2020 war in Armenia. We provide immediate-term Postwar Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) recovery and mental healthcare as well as diagnostics and preventative medical treatment for PTSD associated escalation of chronic disease conditions

 

“For Humanity” Charitable foundation, “After Matters” Foundation and “Maple Leafs” Armenian-Canadian clinic has launched a Pilot project – “Postwar Traumatic Stress Recovery And Healthcare For Families of Wounded and Deceased Soldiers”.

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Our  mission  is to lift and empower the families of wounded and deceased soldiers. Our purpose is to aid the often-overlooked post-war recovery of families directly impacted by the September 2020 war in Armenia. We provide immediate-term Postwar Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) recovery and mental healthcare as well as diagnostics and preventative medical treatment for PTSD associated escalation of chronic disease conditions.

 

US based donors and Armenian-Canadian Maple Leafs Clinic initiated a pilot program in Ararat Province early 2021.  The scope included over 400 beneficiaries comprised of 63% women (mostly mothers and wives of deceased or wounded soldiers) and 80% over the age of 40.

 

The program has proven effective and efficient. In 3 months and with just $40,000, we  have:

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  • Organized 35 visits to more than 20 villages
  • Treated 415 patients (260 women; 155 men)
  • Administered 203 psychotherapy sessions, including 25 psychiatric evaluations
  • Provided 494 ultrasound examinations, 193 ECG tests and 847 lab tests
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  • Conducted316 online consultations as part of ongoing treatment

 

The data and outcomes have demonstrated the clear impact of the program.  We have helped:

  • Stabilize and aid recovery of the mental health for the wounded soldiers and impacted families allowing their return to a ‘normal’ life, avoiding on-going mental disorders and costs including suicides.
  • Prevent and treat acute exacerbations of chronic diseases caused by PTSD preventing future inpatient treatments, and consequently, high costs.
  • Ensure a transparent and high integrity monitoring process to evaluate the results and make necessary improvements to the program.

 

With the positive results of the pilot program in 1 region, we have established the template of implementation, which will serve as a foundation for the future expansion roadmap across other regions that are now calling on us for help. To ensure a sustainable development and expansion of the project and to amplify the longer-term success for all affected families across Armenia, we are opening the Foundation for selecting private and institutional donors.

 VARDGES AVAGYAN

1466087_808968369121135_3549400396487448283_n1“During the course of my career and education I’ve traveled to several countries always keeping the thought of home in mind. Not a just a house, but a home, a land where I belong and feel safe. In the end the longing brings us back. The isolation I felt abroad reminded me where I should truly be.”

Vardges Avagyan moved to Armenia from Canada in 2013 with his wife and children. Vardges was born in Yerevan. After he graduated high school he continued his education abroad, specifically in the field of medicine. Before repatriating he lived and worked in the United States, the United Kingdom, Holland, and Canada. He and his wife Syuzanna both felt that Armenia was the best place to raise their children and preserve their national identity.

Vardges recalls also being inspired to return by the Armenian Ambassador in Canada. “Mr. Armen Yeganyan inspired me to use the medical expertise I had acquired throughout the years to serve my homeland, Armenia. Thus I set out to establish the first Armenian-Canadian medical clinic in Armenia. The idea was to create a family doctor oriented clinic in order to avoid the current day run around many patients face where they are simply referred from one doctor to another. In our clinic every patient becomes a member of our family and such long-term relationships give us more medical insight as to any problem the patient may have.”

Many Armenians now have the opportunity to study abroad. Vardges does not deny the quality of higher education differs from Armenia in some professional fields, however he believes that if we work together to create a proper market climate and a country where students may apply their acquired knowledge, many more Armenians will return to their homeland.

Syuzanna reminds us that people are far warmer in Armenia than anywhere else in the world. “When people ask my daughter if she’d prefer to return she immediately says no. Generally both my daughter and my son feel much more comfortable in Armenia. Here children grow up in a healthier environment. They have a constant relationship with their grandparents. They see how their grandparents sacrifice for them and do everything in their power for their grandchildren. Similar relationships abroad are very rare. Also the one thing which can’t compare is the food in Armenia, which in its taste and authenticity is unlike that of any other country we’ve been to.”

“After fifteen years of coming and going it’s my honest wish and goal that my family and I will be able to stay in Armenia and continue building our lives here.”

Program ‘Frequent Business Visitors’

The Maple Leafs Clinic is granted to participate in the program ‘Frequent Business Visitors’ which offers a simplified processfor obtaining multiple entry visas for business trips to Canada.

 

 

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