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.
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… Read More »Children’s Trauma Healing in Sri Lanka
How can you help children who are struggling if they won’t talk about it?
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.
Dr. Lyn Westman wrote Baby Finds Grace to help parents and other caregivers bring healing to children who suffer from grief and/or trauma.
Resourceful Magazine just released its Spring issue, which includes an article about the Ebola education project. The article called, “Answers Amidst Suffering,” features an interview… Read More »Answers Amidst Suffering
These workers from several children’s homes in Lomé Togo just completed three days of training in mental health. They also learned ways to recognize and… Read More »Training in Togo
Training will be provided for 30 orphanage care workers and is expected to impact 1,000-1,500 children.
Pastor Samuel Kpavouvou, our partner in Togo, is certified as a Master facilitator for adults and children through the Mercy Ships Mental Health Program, and… Read More »Training Helps Stop Early Marriage