How To Become Involved With Supporting the
Coalition For Healing and Recovery – Middle East
Opportunities for
Professional Volunteer and Internship/Field Placements
Invaluable professional and personal experience is available for those who wish to be part of a team creating an unprecedented Coalition of Disaster Health Care NGOs providing critical health care on the ground to victims of war and violence in the Middle East.
* Involvement can be fully virtual or optionally in-person, and is typically custom-designed to match a volunteer’s interests, skills, experience, time, and schedule.
If you are looking for a way to contribute there are many options.
Opportunities Are Available For:
Professional Volunteering:
Volunteering offers meaningful professional work experience that can be documented for resumes, as well as provide unique opportunities to meet and work with experienced, leading edge professionals.
Internships & Field Placements:
Internships & field placements are available in related fields with the approval of a students university. In cooperation with Common Bond Institute (CBI) & International Humanistic Psychology Association (IHPA) placements are available in a variety of fields, including but not limited to mental health & medical health treatment & skills training, human services, sociology, policy & program development, organizational & community development, communications, & IT & computer sciences.
Our coordinators and staff make themselves fully available to support and guide all volunteers, and professional internship and field placement supervision is available to meet university requirements.
Available Task Areas – accomplished either virtually or in-person, include:
1) Mapping the Service and Need landscape to create a Regional, Searchable Database of NGOs providing disaster health care services to victims of war and violence in Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria.
Assisting staff with:
a) Researching local and international NGOs to expand our list of direct services operating in the region, as well as local capacity building skills trainings.
b) Conducting a detailed online survey of these NGOs re: where located, what services, to who, where, & how to access. Also service gaps, staffing & skill gaps NGOs need help with, staffing and skill resources to potentially share, logistical challenges, lessons learned in addressing these challenges, etc.
c) Collating the survey data and converting it into a searchable and regularly updated database made up of two parts:
• A database specifically for NGOs and Providers with functions for determining how to both make use of and support each others work for a more effective service overall
• A database for the general population in this region made available to all to learn: what services are available, for what needs, by who, where, and how to access services.
2) Technical and operational logistics for holding future Solidarity Zoom Conferences, and Zoom task group meetings for NGO representatives developing and implementing the structure of the coalition.
Assisting staff with:
– Zoom functions: including monitoring and managing participant admissions, dialogue interactions, & chat box; use of a white board and screen sharing; note taking system for recording dialogue & deliberation highlights, etc.
– Email and text communications
3) Program Development:
Assisting staff with:
Research and Development of best practices – evidence-based and culturally appropriate programs and specialized materials for: treatment skills training, self-help/resilience building skills training, public health education, and operational systems for the coalition, (formats can include print, online and virtual, interactive programs/Apps, social media, multimedia, etc.).
4) Research Projects:
Assisting staff with:
Research on topics directly related to the coalition, the needs it addresses, the services it provides, and results (peer reviewed research articles are eligible to be considered for publishing in the International Journal of Communal and Transgenerational Trauma)
5) Resource Development for: support of participating NGOs, and coalition operations and management needs
Assisting staff with:
a) Researching grant opportunities and determining appropriate grantors, including foundations.
• Collecting data and completing proposal components for submission
• Using database systems in support of grant writing processes
b) Generating in-kind donations of materials, services, and other concrete support
c) Organizing crowd-fundraising strategies and programs.
6) Communications and Technical Systems:
Assisting staff with:
a) Developing and operating secure Communication, IT, and AI functions in support of coalition tasks, operations, and activities. This included functions for all of the above aspects, as well as virtual meetings, social networking, etc.
b) Development and launching of a Coalition website to house the above database, multimedia resource library, etc.
7) Volunteering to provide mental health or medical health treatment and/or skills training services to coalition member NGOs. * This can be either via tele-health, or on-site.
Services include: Clinical treatment, local capacity building health care skills training, self-help/resilience building skills training, and public health education.
8) International Journal of Communal & Transgenerational Trauma: (cttjournal.org)
Tasks with this online, peer reviewed professional journal for publishing research and perspectives relevant to the coalition mission include:
a) Assisting as an Editorial assistant (details available at: cttjournal.org/staff-board/edit-assist/ )
b) Assisting with the technical aspects of managing and developing features and functions of an online journal
9) Additional related tasks as needed
Those interested in learning more about how you can be involved in being part of this landmark coalition can contact:
Steve Olweean, Director, Common Bond Institute
at: SOlweean@aol.com or Cell/WhatsApp: 1-269-501-5453
