Local Capacity Building
For Social Healing, Sustainable Recovery, Empowerment, Dignity, and Self-determination
Equipping local service providers in regions of conflict with proven and culturally adapted mental health treatment skills for trauma healing to the massive refugee communities in these countries.
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Social Health Care (SHC) Training Program
Based on the CTR Model, a comprehensive, local capacity building psycho-social training program designed to:
* Equip local students, NGO staff, medical professionals, and members of refugee communities in proven, culturally adapted mental health treatment skills to heal the trauma of refugee communities in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, and Iraq displaced by the civil wars and violence, and to assist unserved members of the local society.
* Provide regular field experience to demonstrate psychosocial methods and supervise trainees in applying and gaining proficiency in learned skills.
* Invest in the human service and educational systems of the host countries by providing a certified practical training curriculum for students and relief workers in the mental health related disciplines.
* Develop an international professional mentor network to support local service providers and newly emerging psychosocial services.
The SHC Program currently includes these components:
Community Based Training Program:
A progressive training and experience in psychosocial support and treatment skills open to all qualified local trainees in countries experiencing violent upheaval and a refugee crisis, and where the local population is unserved or significantly underserved. It prepares both professional and para-professional service providers to quickly provide a progressive range of direct treatment services, from lay emotional support, immediate care, and crisis stabilization, to more in-depth and longer term mental health treatments.
Disaster Health Care Field Clinics
Direct treatment field clinics providing emergency psychosocial and medical services to refugees, while also providing supervised practical field experience for trainees in the Social Health Care training program.
Certified Diploma in Clinical Social Work
Local Capacity Building in Jordan to Serve Psychosocial Needs
A Certified Practical Diploma program preparing students in Jordan with practical skills training and field experience in psychosocial service skills enabling them to provide critical direct services to at-risk and unserved communities, including refugees. The program is conducted by CBI in partnership with Queen Rania Center for Jordanian Studies and Community Service, Yarmouk University, Michigan State University, the International Humanistic Psychology Association.
Psychosocial Specialty Training
A Program for Medical Students and Practitioners
(Details to be posted)
Invitational Training For Clergy and Religious Teachers
Psychosocial Symptoms and Treatment
A 1-Day Inter-religious Training, in partnership with Michigan State University and Dr. Farha Abbasi, MD, providing orientation and training to religious professionals on psychosocial symptoms and behaviors, cultural competency, basic responses and supportive counseling skills to assist those exhibiting symptoms, determining when a professional therapist is needed and where and how to refer someone, and handling unique situations and issues clergy and religious teachers encounter with many who are suffering from psychosocial difficulties.
Bi-Regional Cross-Training Project
for Psychosocial Services to Refugees
A bi-regional collaboration between host countries to share effective, culturally adapted psychosocial treatment skills to assist traumatized refugee populations in communities struggling with the refugee crisis.
Catastrophic Trauma Recovery (CTR) Model:
A comprehensive, integrated, and interdiciplinary training program in trauma recovery skills intended to quickly equip local professionals and relief workers with trauma treatment skills to assist large populations of civilians and refugees traumatized by war, violence, or natural catastrophe.
The CTR model was developed near the end of the Balkan Wars by CBI, and is adaptable to the local culture, scalable, portable, and sustainable for application in developing countries that are regions of conflict, where the human service infrastructure is either underdeveloped or severely compromised by catastrophic conditions, and where local skill and hard resources are scarce.