Mental Health in Complex Emergencies
The certificate course in Mental Health in Complex Emergencies is a week long training course for mental health professionals and program staff who wish to establish mental health or psychosocial programs in a humanitarian context within conflict and post-conflict areas.
The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) trains peer counselors to provide mental health services to refugees in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Recent conflicts in those countries produced massive displacement of people in the region.
In this notebook we learn about how the Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) created local and and long-term capacity building projects in Guinea and Sierra Leone. The CVT trained local refugees to be "mental health specialists" and gave them the skills to begin to rebuild their communities. This notebook may provide tactical ideas to those assisting these communities trying to rebuild their lives.
Join New Tactics and other practitioners for an online dialogue on Advancing Children’s Right to Education from February 15 to 21, 2012. Education is a basic human right, enshrined in law all...
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