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Lidia Luna uploaded the file: Handbook for Community Volunteer Counsellors to
Community Mobilizing and Family Support 1 month, 1 week agoUploaded by Chathuri Jayasooriyya on March 6, 2012. 108 downloads
This is a handbook developed by AVSI to support the community volunteer counsellors (CVCs) in the Kitgum and Pader Districts in Uganda under the Psycho Social Support Program (PSSP), in their work with their communities.
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Lidia Luna uploaded the file: Communiti based psychosocial services in humanitarian assistance- A facilitator's guide:2005 to
Community Mobilizing and Family Support 1 month, 1 week agoUploaded by Gayathri Jayasooriya on September 3, 2012. 71 downloads
Version 2, May 2005 http://www.svenskakyrkan.se/psychosocialservices
This guide highlights the need to identify and assist people in meeting their psychosocial needs following a major emergency or disaster. Meeting these psychosocial needs is as important as fulfilling the obvious…[Read more]
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Community Mobilizing and Family Support 2 months, 1 week agoA date for your diary. The definitive conference on children and PSS in southern and eastern Africa. Regional Psychosocial Support Forum 2013
Dates: 29 – 31 October 2013
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Grace Onyango uploaded the file: Handbook on Participatory Methods on Community-Based Projects to Psychosocial Care & Protection of Children to
Community Mobilizing and Family Support 4 months, 1 week agoPlease note: this report is also posted under the Psychosocial Care and Protection of Children group. The handbook provides a step-by-step guide in implementing the participatory methods described in the community-based participatory action report. (See Community-Based Reintegration of War Affected Young Mothers-Participatory Action Research (PAR)…[Read more]
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Grace Onyango uploaded the file: Community-Based Reintegration of War Affected Young Mothers-Participatory Action Research (PAR) in Liberia, Sierra Leone & Northern Uganda to
Community Mobilizing and Family Support 4 months, 1 week agoPlease note: this report is also posted under the Psychosocial Care and Protection of Children group as I feel it is relevant to both groups. This is a report of a study designed to include girl mothers, both formerly associated with armed groups and other vulnerable young girls who became pregnant or gave birth when they were under 18 years of…[Read more]
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Miryam Rivera-Holguin uploaded the file: Psychosocial Support and Communitarian Mental Health after the earthquake: Murals to see and dream to
Community Mobilizing and Family Support 5 months agoSistematization of a community mobilization work implemented in Chincha-Perú, by the American Red Cross, after the earthquake in 2007. A training process was developed with the leaders of 17 communities (urban and rural).
Comments: Useful to people/institutions who would like to implement communitarian and participatorian activities, offers a…[Read more]
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Lucy Hillier uploaded the file: Children and older carers affected by HIV and AIDS: Priorities for regional and national legislation, policy and programming for children affected by HIV and AIDS living with older carers to
Community Mobilizing and Family Support 5 months agoA two page brief addressing older carers of HIV affected children PSS and Social Protection designed to assist with advocacy at the regional and national levels in eastern and southern Africa.
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A short two pager on older carers which can be used for more effective advocacy and messaging to national stakeholders in the eastern and southern African region.
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Lucy Hillier edited the file: “I am taking care of my granny properly and she is taking care of me” Intergenerational issues between older caregivers and children in the context of AIDS in eastern and southern Africa, RIATT-ESA and HelpAge, 2011 in
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Lucy Hillier uploaded the file: “I am taking care of my granny properly and she is taking care of me” Intergenerational issues between older caregivers and children in the context of AIDS in eastern and southern Africa, RIATT-ESA and HelpAge, 2011 to
Community Mobilizing and Family Support 5 months agoThis study responds to regional recommendations to strengthen families as a unit of care within the context of children affected by HIV and AIDS. In particular it addresses the recommendation to strengthen the skills of child, youth and older caregivers with age- and gender-sensitive training, including life and parenting skills, and awareness on…[Read more]
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This study looked at a very common living arrangement in Africa where children are living with grandparents, for the most part grandmothers. Despite this common caring relationship, older people are often forgotten in policy and planning. The study shows how the well-being of older people and children in Africa is mutually interdependent and also…[Read more]
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I also wanted to point out the power of the photos in this study publication. I’m not always a fan of photos of children in the development context for number of reasons but these photos of older people with young babies/children to care for bring home the challenges which many older carers and children face as well as the love and strong bond…[Read more]
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Program designers in community reintegration processes will find this report very useful as it explains a step by step engagement with the young mothers with the girls leading the decision-making on how the project should run. The girls decided on what projects to implement based on their knowledge and experience of their environment. Many…[Read more]