Switzerland contributes to supported living programmes for people with disabilities, including mental disorders, in Ukraine. Supported living homes create conditions as close to home as possible. Residents of the house learn to independently meet their household and social needs – from cooking and cleaning their rooms to shopping – in small groups, accompanied by assistants and social workers. In this way, people with disabilities are empowered to take more control over their lives and have greater freedom. They also take the first steps towards integration into local communities.

There are only several supported living homes in Ukraine, which create a worthy alternative to often overcrowded psychoneurological boarding schools and psychiatric hospitals. Switzerland finances the development of supported living services, in particular the opening of supported living homes through the Swiss-Ukrainian project Mental Health for Ukraine, Caritas Ukraine and other partners.