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May 15, 2012 in Training by Chathuri Jayasooriyya
The American University in Cairo
School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Center for Migration and Refugee Studies
Summer Short Courses June 10 – July 5, 2012
The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American University in Cairo (AUC) is offering the following four short courses during the month of June and July 2012:
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in Training by Chathuri Jayasooriyya
Institute for International Health and Development – IIHD
The distance learning module on Psychosocial Interventions with War-affected Populations will be starting on 27th August 2012 and will run for 6 weeks during which time students will be engaging actively with the teaching materials and with one another via the WebCT programme. There will be several compulsory and optional tutorials to complete during this time, as well as an assignment to be handed in in April. As this is a distance learning course, all interactions will be via the web and students need access to the internet during this time.
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March 12, 2012 in Training by Chathuri Jayasooriyya
Applications are invited for the Tenth Annual Orientation Course on Forced Migration to be held in Kolkata, India (1-15 October 2012)
The Course, certified by the UNHCR and Calcutta Research Group, will be preceded by a two and a half month long programme of distance education. It will consist of workshops, lectures, other interactive exercises, and field visit. The workshops will be based on assignments sent to the selected participants two months prior to the programme for necessary preparation. The programme is intended for human rights activists, policy makers, academics, refugee rights activists and others working in the field of human rights and humanitarian assistance for victims of forced migration. The curriculum deals with themes of nationalism, ethnicity, partition, and partition-refugees, national regimes and the international regime of protection, issues relating to regional patterns of forced migration in South Asia, internal displacement, the gendered nature of forced migration and protection framework, resource politics, climate change and environmental degradation, and several other themes related to the forced displacement of people. Selected candidates will have to complete assignments based on the workshop themes before they join the programme in Kolkata, India.
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March 8, 2012 in Training by Chathuri Jayasooriyya
Course description
As an integral part of the humanitarian relief, education provides physical, psychosocial and cognitive protection, which can be both life-sustaining and life-saving. This 3-days training course will cover the essential aspects of education in emergencies and, through a thorough understanding of the INEE Minimum Standards, will enable participants to design, implement and monitor efficient education programmes and projects.
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January 31, 2012 in Training by Chathuri Jayasooriyya
Community Based Psychosocial Support in Emergencies is a course held in co-operation between Sida and the ACT Alliance. The course aims to strengthen the trainees own capacities to fully understand and integrate the CBPS in emergencies approach into their humanitarian response work. Approximately 50% of the places on the course are reserved for ACT Alliance’ cooperative partners. The rest of the places are open for NGOs, UN agencies, International Organisations and Emergency Roster members. Organisations from developing countries and the global south are especially encouraged to apply.
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January 25, 2012 in Training by Chathuri Jayasooriyya
The Summer School – which is in its second edition – is jointly organized by the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). It aims at providing a framework of understanding of the psychosocial dimension of displacement, while presenting harmonized ethics, approaches and tools associated with psychosocial support. The School addresses the needs of psychologists, social workers, educators-teachers, medical doctors and psychiatrists, nurses, artists, humanitarian workers, emergency experts, development workers and similar. To read more, please click here
January 10, 2012 in Training by Chathuri Jayasooriyya
The Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy, in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is offering a:
Summer School in Psychosocial Interventions in Emergency Displacement
II Edition, A.Y. 2011-2012
Key facts:
Location: Pisa, Italy, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna’s campus
Dates: 18 – 30 June 2012 (12 days, Monday-Saturday, full time)
Working language: English
Number of Participants: 30
Application deadlines: First Round – 9 March 2012; Second Round – 20 April 2012
List of successful applicants: First Round – notified by 19 March 2012; Second Round – notified by 4 May 2012
Scientific Board: Prof. Andrea de Guttry (Scuola Sant’Anna), Prof. Guglielmo Schininà (IOM Geneva), and Prof. Renos K. Papadopoulos (University of Essex)
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November 21, 2011 in Training by Chathuri Jayasooriyya
The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American University in Cairo (AUC) is offering the following four short courses during the month of January and February 2012:
1. Training Skills for Trainers of Psychosocial and Mental Health Workers in Countries Affected by Emergencies (February 18-23, 2012)
Course Description: Refugees and migrants struggle with the mental health and psychosocial consequences of their experiences in the aftermath of wars, conflict, natural disasters and other emergencies. Efforts for mental health and psychosocial supportive services span the globe and are often part of aid operations. Professionals commonly need to prepare the teams to provide these services.
During this short course, participants will have opportunities to share their experiences and practice new skills. They will learn practical techniques for how they can best train the workers who will provide the psychosocial and mental health support during emergencies. They will learn how to design a curriculum that moves from theory to applied skills and about participatory and experiential training techniques including how to give an effective presentation, facilitate a discussion and practically use experiential training techniques, such as role play, drama and storytelling.
About the Instructor: Nancy Baron is the Director of Psychosocial Program at CMRS, the Psychosocial Training Institute of Cairo and Global Psycho-Social Initiatives (GPSI). She received her Doctorate in Education at the University of Massachusetts, U.S.A. with a concentration in Family Therapy and Counseling Psychology. Since 1989, she has provided consultation, assessment, training, program design and development, research and evaluation for UN organizations and international and local NGOs in community and family focused psycho-social, mental health and peace building initiatives for conflict and post-conflict countries. She has lived and worked with emergency affected populations in Africa: Burundi, Egypt, Guinea Conakry, Kenya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan and Uganda; in Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan and Sri Lanka; in Eastern Europe: Kosovo and Albania; in South America: Colombia; and in the South Pacific: Solomon Islands. She is also the International Training Director for the International Trauma Studies Program, New York, USA.
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September 9, 2011 in Training by Chathuri Jayasooriyya
The Institute for International Health and Development at Queen Margaret University is offering a new postgraduate distance learning module: Research Design and Planning by Distance Learning. In this module, you acquire skills necessary for designing and planning a coherent research project and writing a competent research proposal in the area of international health and development. The research project could be part of your Msc. It could also be any other small scale applied research project which you may want to conduct, for instance when working for a NGO or medical institution.
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August 2, 2011 in Training by Chathuri Jayasooriyya
Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 10th – Monday 19th September, 2011
This integrated program of workshops has been specifically designed for managers working within humanitarian aid and development organisations. The intensive and integrated program will provide participants with a forum to further develop their psychosocial knowledge, skills, strategy as well as organisational policies for systematically supporting humanitarian and development staff.
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