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International Charitable Fund "OMNI-Net for Children"
Lyubov Yevtushok, M.D.
Head of the Executive Committee
The International Charitable Fund "OMNI-Net for Children" (OMNI-Net) is a non-for-profit, non-government organization in Ukraine dedicated to the prevention and care of developmental disorders and birth defects. It was officially registered by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine on December 30, 2004. Today OMNI-Net consists of a network of 5 OMNI-Net resource centers in Rivne, Lutsk, Kherson, Khmelnytsky and Simferopol.
The OMNI-Net incorporation was facilitated by the Ukrainian-American Birth Defects Program (1999-2005), funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and University of South Alabama (Mobile, Al, USA). During the program realization there was created a team of specailists in Volyn, Rivne, Kherson, Khmelnytsky oblasts and Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Partner links were established with colleagues from other Ukrainian oblasts.
OMNI-Net founders - Ukrainian-American
Birth Defects Program team
Main tasks of the OMNI-Net include promoting and collaboration in:
- Development and implementation of scientific, research and clinical programs directed at birth defects and developmental disabilities care and prevention.
- Programs for children deprived of parental care and support.
- Development and implementation of educational programs and early intervention methods.
- Development of telemedicine to sustain close contacts of local specialists with national and international experts.
- Creation of parental support groups for families having birth defects children.
- Provide access to care providers, families, educators and the public to electronic information sources.
- Partner with health care systems, medical libraries and other state and public organizations with the aim to enhance the awareness about birth defects diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
- Establish links with national and international parterns.
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Ukraine 33300, Rivne, 16 Lypnya Str, 36. Phone/fax: (+38)-0362-623447. E-mail: OMNI-Net Account #260083015461 in Rivne Regional Department of Joint Stock Company "Oshchadbank", MFO 333368, ID #33334985, SWIFT: COSBUAUKRIV, BIC - COSBUAUKRIV. |
OMNI-NET STRUCTURE
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The most active partners of OMNI-Net:
- Volyn Regional Children's Territorial Medical Center
- V. Polishchuk Rivne Regional Clinical Diagnostic Center
- Khmelnytsky City Perinatal Center
- Kherson Regional Children's Clinical Hospital
- Crimean Republican Rehabiliation Center for Disabled Children "Sozvezdiye"
- Early Rehabilitation Center for Children with Organic Damage of Nervous System and Mentality in Volyn Regional Specialized Children's Home
- Rivne Early Intervention Educational and Social Rehabilitation Center for Special Needs Children "Pahinets"
- Volyn Regional Public Organization of Parents of Children with Down Syndrome and Other Developmental Disorders
- Rivne Regional Public Organization "Association of Special Needs Children Parents"
- Parental Club "Veselka" in Khmelnytsky
- Ukraine Special Needs Orphanages Fund (Virginia, USA)
- EUROCAT (European Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies)
- International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research (ICBDSR)
- Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (CIFASD)
WHAT IS OMNI-CENTER?
OMNI-Center is an informational resource center. It gives access to physicians, parents of BD children, patients and interested public to contemporary information printed and electronic; it participates in conducting telemedical consultations. OMNI-Net team includes medical geneticists, neonatologists, ultrasound specialists, computer specialists and English-speaking information officers. Each OMNI-Center is equipped with computers, scanners, copy-machines, digital photo and video cameras, and multimedia projectors. Each OMNI-Center also serves as a base for training programs.
OMNI-Center visitors have access to databases related to birth defects, such as "I.B.I.S (International Birth Defects Information Systems)" - rather popular web-site. OMNI-Centers develop materials for I.B.I.S. in Ukrainian.
All OMNI-Centers are joined into the OMNI-Center network to share resources and link different regions in Ukraine.
The OMNI-Net has established population based birth defects surveillance systems in their respective oblasts. Monitoring data is reported to the International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research and EUROCAT.
Concurrently, in collaboration with local health care departments OMNI-Net has established population based neonatal registries in three oblasts. The neonatal data provides a basis for managing a variety of maternal-child health programs.
The OMNI-Net initiated establishing the "Pahinets Early Intervention Educational and Social Rehabilitation Center for Special Needs Children" under support of city of Rivne authorities and in partnership with Rivne Regional Association of Special Needs Children Parents and Ukraine Special Needs Orphanages Fund.
The OMNI-Net is engaged in exchanges with counterparts in other countries regarding their potential role in the network.
