Category: Mental Health
Training Update
Kay
“We give the food and love, but it’s not enough. Their need is inside.” Hannah cares for 64 orphaned children. She had just finished a TI training seminar.
World Mental Health Day is October 10th
Kay
October 10 is World Mental Health Day, a day to draw attention to the need for mental health care. The TI mental health team was recently in Nepal, where we followed up on church and community leaders equipped last year, and trained a new group of workers for Hope for […]
Madagascar: Fighting Discouragement
Dr. Lyn Westman
A physician looks for ways to fight discouragement in patients, and stigma in the community.
Training in Madagascar
Kay
Tributaries International collaborated with Mercy Ships in Madagascar August 11-15 to train community caregivers in mental health.
Vocalists from Liberia & Pakistan Unite to Release Songs for Healing.
Kay
We don’t often think of places like Pakistan or Liberia when we think of Christmas music, but as Arif says: “All cultures and societies have great differences, but Jesus and His love are the same everywhere.”
Traveling from Afar, We Come Together
Dr. Lyn Westman
Blending their voices and bending their knees, Arif and Kanvee have poured their hearts out into the songs they have put together. As the wise men traveled from afar and came together to pay tribute and give gifts to the newborn King, so everyone involved in this project does the same.
Mental Health Training Update
Kay
This summer, a mental health team from Tributaries International trained over 200 service providers in four nations. “This has helped us so much even in this short time,” Says one church leader. “People have noticed the change.”
Church Leaders Get Mental Health Training in Nepal
Kay
Seventy-one informal care providers received training in basic mental health and trauma in August. Participants were among those responding after the April 25 earthquake and the following aftershocks through the church and through Hope for Nepal, a local organization that organized the seminars.
Children’s Trauma Healing in Sri Lanka
Kay
Twenty-seven leaders in Sri Lanka were trained this month as children’s trauma healing facilitators. In the week immediately following training, they applied the training in a five-day children’s trauma healing workshop for 47 children. Two of our mental health team helped to facilitate the training of these leaders. The training was a part […]
Healing Takes Time
Dr. Lyn Westman
How can you help children who are struggling if they won’t talk about it?