Category: Children’s Trauma
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.”
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?
Helping Children Cope with Grief
Kay
When the advanced church leader training in Benin was shortened, the Mental Health Team was able to spend time at a children’s home where one of the caregivers had died suddenly. When Dr. Lyn asked how the children were coping, she was told that since the children are all orphans, they are used to death.