Helsinki Committee
Helsinki Committees have begun to emerge after the signing of the Final Helsinki Act in May 1975. Presently, they exist in 34 countries. Its goal is to protect citizens through monitoring the fulfillment of governmental responsibilities regarding human rights and freedoms, as adopted by the country through international agreements.
Manejando el estrés traumático: Consejos para recuperarnos de un desastre natural
Los desastres ocurren a menudo de manera inesperada, súbita y abrumadora. En algunos casos aunque en los sobrevivientes no se detecten signos visibles de lesiones físicas, si existen lesiones emocionales que pueden producir reacciones muy intensas. En este articulo la APA brinda algunas herramientas que permiten comprender que tipo de respuestas se presentan normalmente ante estos acontecimientos anormales, de tal forma que los sobrevivientes puedan aprender a controlar con efectividad sus sentimientos, pensamientos y comportamientos, y se acerquen de esta forma al camino de su recuperación. El articulo responde preguntas tales como: ¿Qué puede ocurrirle a una persona después de un desastre u otro acontecimiento traumático?; ¿Por qué cada quien responde de forma diferente con el paso del tiempo?; ¿Cómo puede una persona ayudarse a sí misma y a su familia?, y por ultimo, ¿Cuándo es necesario buscar ayuda profesional?.
http://www.apa.org/centrodeapoyo/consejos-desastres.aspx
The Resilience Programme for Young Men – A psychosocial handbook
The Resilience Programme for Young Men focuses specifically on the needs of young men, featuring activities that support increased self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-perception, all vital to psychosocial wellbeing. It aims to strengthen social interaction, creativity and peer support by encouraging good communication, group collaboration, mutual trust, respect, understanding and valuing of differences. These are key elements for young men in creating a better life for themselves and their communities.
http://pscentre.org/wp-content/uploads/Resilience-Programme-for-Young-Men.pdf
Psychosocial and mental health interventions in areas of mass violence
These guidelines and the contribution to the Inter Agency Standing Committee Guidelines, Mental Health: Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings is written to share our technical experiences, to help colleagues and other humanitarian workers to avoid repeating the mistakes we have made. We do not claim that our intervention model is the only way to approach psychosocial or mental health problems in areas of conflict. We realise the limitations and opportunities of our organisations specific medical, humanitarian emergency origin as well as the specificity of our experiences.
Helping Children After a Natural Disaster: Information for Parents and Teachers
Natural disasters can be especially traumatic for children and youth. Experiencing a dangerous or violent flood, storm, or earthquake is frightening even for adults, and the devastation to the familiar environment (i.e., home and community) can be long lasting and distressing .
Psychological First Aid for Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak
Ebola virus disease outbreaks have a significant impact on the wellbeing of those affected, their family, community members and the health workers treating people with Ebola. This guide focuses on, which involves humane, supportive and practical help to fellow human beings suffering serious crisis events. It is written for people who can help others experiencing an extremely distressing event.
http://www.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/131682/1/9789241548847_eng.pdf?ua=1
Mental Health & Psychosocial Network
The MHPSS Network is a growing global platform for connecting people, networks and organizations, for sharing resources and for building knowledge related to mental health and psychosocial support both in emergency settings and in situations of chronic hardship. We aspire to building and shaping good practice in support of people affected by difficult events or circumstances.
Study of community-based child protection mechanisms in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo
By mapping existing community-based protection initiatives, structures and approaches, the study intended to identify effective and sustainable community-based mechanisms and offer recommendations in order to help support the development of its community-based child protection strategy in Uganda and in the DRC.
https://www.streetchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/child-protection-mechanisms-uganda-drc.pdf
Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings CHECKLIST FOR FIELD USE
Reading the full IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings from cover to cover may not be possible during an emergency. This limitation led to the development of this field version, which may be used as a check-list for program planning and emergency response. This brief version cannot capture all the important points in the Guidelines. Readers are encouraged to use this field version only in conjunction with the full Guidelines.
http://www.who.int/mental_health/emergencies/IASC_guidelines.pdf
Handbook for Coordinating Gender Based Violence interventions in humanitarian settings
This handbook is meant to be a quick-reference tool that provides practical guidance on leadership roles, key responsibilities and specific actions to be taken when establishing and maintaining a GBV coordination mechanism in an emergency. The handbook is based on the Inter-agency Standing Committees (IASC) Guidelines for Gender-based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Settings (2005) and also takes into account lessons learned, good practices and emerging resources related to GBV coordination within the cluster approach/humanitarian reform process as well as relatively recent global initiatives on GBV in emergencies, such as UN Action.
http://www.unicef.org/protection/files/GBV_Handbook_Long_Version.pdf