WG4 – CAPACITY BUILDING
  • Goals and work modalities: build networks’ capacity and achieve synergy of expertise and competencies within and outside of the CoReMH by mapping available resources as well as assessing needs for, organizing, and delivering trainings.
  • Subsections/topics (e.g.):
    • design, deliver, and disseminate trainings and workshops for various professionals working with people on the move on topics relevant to migration and mental health such as: trauma and resilience, what it means to be a refugee and to work with refugees, cultural-humility, grief and bereavement, effective approaches for addressing mental health challenges in migration and displacement, and training of trainers
    • generate and deliver training programs for non-professionals, including members of the refugee community, in order to facilitate trauma-informed care and basic service provision, especially in under-resourced areas
    • design and deliver trainings and workshops for relevant stakeholders, including media, to raise awareness and reduce stereotypes, prejudices and misconceptions regarding refugees’ and migrants’ mental health
    • conduct needs assessments within the field of migration and mental health and generate appropriate training materials to bridge those gaps
    • identify and maintain a regularly updated map of resources
    • build critical capacities in young psychologists, doctors, social workers, lawyers, school staff, nurses and other care-providing professionals who hope to work with refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants in the future
    • involve and learn from mental health experts from the countries of origin of the beneficiaries in order to ensure context-specific and culturally adjusted practice 
    • focus on prevention of vicarious trauma and burnout for mental health specialists and other care-providing professionals working with people on the move

 

  • Chair(s):
    • Maria Ntetsika of Babel Day Center (babel@syn-eirmos.gr)
  • Members:
    • Care Center Puž (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
    • Medecins du Monde (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
    • Association on Refugees and Migrants (Bulgaria)
    • Society for Psychological Assistance (Croatia)
    • Babel Day Centre – Syn-eirmos (Greece)
    • EPAPSY – Association for Regional Development and Mental Health (Greece)
    • Greek Forum of Refugees (Greece)
    • Solidarity Now (Greece)
    • ZEUXIS (Greece)
    • Cordelia Foundation for the Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (Hungary)
    • Aelle il Punto – Nodo Sankara Project (Italy)
    • KRCT – Kosova Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims (Kosovo)
    • PIN (Serbia)
    • Association of Assistance Solidarity and Support for Refugees and Asylum-Seekers – MSYD (Turkey)