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our story, and those 0f war/armed conflict-affected children, continue to emerge . . . we are listening . . . learning, responding

Global Non-profit providing humanitarian assistance and protection through faithful observation, thoughtful consulting, need- and evidence-based assessment utilized to knowledgeably inform treatment of war/armed conflict affected children at geopolitically unstable border regions in camps, shelters, and informal groups. "Diminishing the sources of suffering, promoting the sources of healing and joy" "Listening" (accurate psychological assessment of children's direct, lived experience of war and forcible displacement) & Intervention (accurate, tailored group or individual treatment): 1) Multi-modal/multi-method assessment: nature/extent of direct war experiences/coping 2) Measure traumatic impact of direct exposure to war/armed conflict experiences and coping 3) Use results to create tailored, developmentally accurate, trauma-sensitive, research-informed wellbeing interventions specific to children's age/developmental level/language/linguistic capabilities, cultural, familial context, nature of their war experiences, current post traumatic symptom profile. (Group interventions, art/expressive/somatic therapies, mindfulness meditation/yoga/dancing, KidNet, integrated therapies, creative writing and drama . . . ) Brief protocols are clinician-administered for children by trained psychologists, mental health providers, educators, field/aid workers, in the children's mother tongue. SITES: JORDANIAN CAMPS FOR SYRIAN CHILDREN PAKISTAN Project initiated w/surviving children of a Taliban school attack in Karachi; continued w/child survivors of Taliban bombings/NATO drones residing in two camps, Bannu & Kohat, Khybee Pakhtoon Khwa (KPK) Province No Pak. Dir., Pak. psychologists (Urdu), pre-empted by Peshawar school massacre in vicinity. To be continued. KENYA project launched for impoverished, intergenerational conflict/war-affected children, Country Director Elisha Ooga, Zelyn Academy Education Project, Kibera School, Silanga Village, Kenya (Swahili). UGANDA/SOUTH SUDAN project with Tom Ogwal, Exec. Dir., SUTCO (Support the Children Uganda/So Sudan); Partner, Board Member ABL/aspiration: Residential School into half of which street children will be integrated. BURUNDI: Dir. Nyamiye Hermenegilde, Asylum Seekers Relief Service (ASRS), 50 + mothers/children/daily from DRCongo; training refugees in peer to peer counseling, Narrative Therapy (Somali). Country disrupted by genocidal civil war. Today we have successfully co-written major grants to sustain, treat malaria and cholera outbreaks, and provide medical and psychosocial support for the huge influx of refugees into both Burundi and Tanzania camps - now serving thousands, including a majority of unaccompanied, uprooted children. The flow of migrants come from DRCongo, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Burundi - where the bloodshed continues.

SOMALIA- Dir., Abdikadir Hassan, ABL Country Dir, GBV Senior officer International Rescue Committee Somalia, dollo Somalian camps, lower jubba, Gedo, Bay and Bakol regions of south central Somalia, then Sr. Child Protection Officer. (Somali). This amazing country continues to be intermittently disrupted by Al Shaabab terrorist attacks: several years ago, our work there was interrupted by the horrific massacre of Christian students at Garissa University. US - Dir Steve Bergkamp, Florida. Collaborative Emergency Second Response Youth Engagement, South Florida, evaluating feasibility of use of second response training and engagement with youth at risk, as well as potential for ABL sponsored collaboration throughout Carribbean.

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