The Coalition engages in task groups focused on developing and implementing practical solutions and applications in several key, interlinked areas related to strengthening and sustaining critical health care in the region for the most at risk, including:

• • Local Capacity Building and Support for Front-line Service Providers:
     > Developing and implementing a comprehensive, certified Mental Health/Psychosocial Skills Training curriculum, and providing on-going support and mentorship to trainees to support and sustain a growing pool of local skilled service providers that invests in empowering the local community, for the immediate and into the future. Providing medical skills training as well. Formal certified skills training supports professional development and vocational credentials of local service providers and NGOs throughout the region.
     > Building partnerships with local service NGOs and providing on-going psycho-emotional support to front-line service workers living and operating under extraordinarily stressful conditions.
  • Trauma-Informed and Culturally-Informed Direct Treatment:
    Adapting, developing, and implementing best practice service models and methods that are trauma-informed, culturally appropriate, evidence-based, interdisciplinary, eclectic, and whole-person.
    Approaches are inclusive of existing traditional and spiritual healing practices incorporated and integrated as bridges – particularly to mental health care – and formulated within the context of the community’s culture and worldview, the experience at the individual and communal level, and the unprecedented characteristics and dynamics of widespread, systematic trauma and loss directed against the entire civilian population.
  • Public Mental and Medical Health Education:
    Developing and providing public mental and medical health educational approaches and materials, as well as self-help personal skills training programs and tutorials:
      > Grounded in the local cultural, language, and spiritual context;
      > Built on existing community strengths to support understanding symptoms that endorses an individual’s inner sense of wellness and a healthy experiential perspective of normal people experiencing and responding to abnormal conditions.
      > Geared to both the general population and specific populations, such as children and teens, to support individual and communal healing, self worth, strength, re-empowerment, and resilience.
  • Mapping and Research:
    Mapping the need, service, and resource landscape into a searchable database of services for
      > Better informed access by service recipients,
      > Referral and coordination between NGOs,
      > Overall improved strategic service planning.
    Research for:
      > Evaluating the efficacy of service models and methods for the intended population
      > Informing innovative and improved individual and communal healing and resilience building interventions;
      > Increasing professional and lay public awareness and understanding of individual and communal trauma (including transgenerational trauma), and the role of unresolved trauma and it’s influence on future functioning and adaptability to stress;
      > Supporting humanitarian policies and response protocols;
      > Understanding patterns and warning signs for early interventions to prevent future violence to non-combatant populations; and prevention of denial or revisionism that increases the risk of future victimization.
  • Resource Development and Sharing:
    Strategically generating and sharing logistical, in-kind, and funding resources to make the most efficient use of available resources that increases the reach, effectiveness, and sustainability of services overall; including communication technology resources to overcome technical barriers to tele-services reaching community members, particularly in Gaza.
  • Technology for Tele-services and Communication
    Developing mechanisms, resources, and strategies for overcoming technical barriers to services reaching local community members and service providers due to imposed obstructions and damaged infrastructure.
  • Professional Community Outreach and Networking:
    Outreach, engagement, and networking with the global professional community to promote increased awareness, input, and support.