Global humanitarian non-profit promoting rapid safe access to quality mental health/wellbeing 4 forcibly displaced war/armed-conflict affected Kids at highly unstable geopolitical border regions. Global Non-profit providing humanitarian assistance and protection through assessment and treatment of war/armed conflict affected children in camps and groups. "Diminishing the sources of suffering, promoting the sources of healing and joy"
"Listening" (accurate psychological assessment of children's lived experience) & Intervention (accurate, tailored Group 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 workers, in the children's mother language. 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. KENYA project launched for impoverished, intergenerational conflict/war-affected children, Country Dir. Elisha Ooga, Zelyn Academy Education Project, NGO, Kibera Slum School, Silanga Village, Kenya (Swahili). Dir.,SUTCO, Partner, Board Member ABL/ future of Residential School into which street children 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. 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, (Somali). Country intermittently disrupted by Al Shaabab terrorist attacks: Massacre at Garissa University. IRELAND- Dr. Aoile Mary O'Brien, Dir. of Research, Hibernia College. Conor Mc Guckin, Trinity College Dublin, refugee child traumatic bereavement. Recent influx of refugees into Ireland. USA - Dir Steve Bergkamp, Florida. Collaborative Emergency Second Response Youth Engagement, South Florida.
