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Is the first appendix for the Psychological First Aid Field for Schools (PFA-S) Operations Guide. This appendix provides recommendations for school staff (including principals and administrators, teachers, health-related professionals, and support staff) on providing Psychological First Aid at a sch...ool.
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A Guidebook for Medical and Professional Schools, Second Edition.
This book represents a significant step to engage health professions schools in addressing global health challenges
The 40-page field guide outlines possible causes of separation, discusses the psychosocial impacts of being separated, such as how we experience loss, and provides guidelines on how to support those who have been separated from family members – including delivering difficult news to loved ones, ba...sic helping skills, interviews, on-going support and referrals, and reunification. There is also a chapter on self-care for staff and volunteers. The materials provided here will need to be adapted to suit local contexts. The aim of this field guide is to build both confidence and skills in responding to disaster and crisis situations, and to raise awareness of the broader goals of the Movement’s work in supporting families separated from their loved ones
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Needs assessment is essential for programme planning, monitoring and evaluation, and accountability, however needs assessment is still a critical weakness of humanitarian response. Organisations need to improve how they do assessments. The Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) and the Emergency Capa...city Building Project (ECB) have produced this guide to fill the gap that existed for a practical resource that pulls together the main lessons learned from various initiatives and experiences.
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Enseignements tirés des derniers épisodes épidémiques d'Ebola pour guider la gestion des risques actuels Dar es Salaam, Tanzanie 1-2 Septembre 2014
Une réunion d’urgence a été organisée conjointement par le réseau d’Organisation pour la Surveillance Régionale des Maladies (CORDS), et ...le Centre de la Surveillance des Maladies Infectieuses de l’Afrique du Sud (SACIDS) afin de réunir et d’évaluer les expériences acquises au cours des épisodes épidémiques d'Ebola en Ouganda et en République démocratique du Congo (RDC) qui permettraient de guider la gestion des risques actuels
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The Japan Committee for UNICEF (JCU) has for years endeavored to disseminate important information about children in developing countries and UNICEF’s various assistance programmes there, as well as to fundraise to support those programmes. Unprecedented damage caused by the East Japan Earthquake,... however, forced us to ask ourselves what we could do to help, and we wasted no time in contacting UNICEF Headquarters in New York.
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Grundlagen für eine künftige ressortübergreifende Strategie für globale Gesundheit
Situation of Disabilities in Indonesia with Data and Statistics
Good practices from South & South-East Asia in disability inclusive disaster risk management
Handout presentations in PDF for illustrating lectures
Accessed May 2014
Broken Links: Psychosocial support for people separated from family members (Training
module) and the corresponding Broken Links field guide are designed to support staff and
volunteers in a wide range of settings where they may be in contact with families who have
been separated from their loved... ones. The field guide and the training module outline the
causes and consequences of being separated from family members, as well as the types of
contact staff and volunteers might have with families affected by separation.
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