Trauma measure available in Mandarin Chinese

We have posted a Mandarin Chinese version of the negative trauma-related cognition for children, the Child Post-Traumatic Cognitions Inventory, cPTCI, on our website. In line with the Foundation’s aims we upload instruments for use in measuring the effects of war, disaster and trauma on children. Read more »

New reference lists

Three of the reference lists we have made available have been updated by Atle Dyregrov and uploaded to our reference section.

Psychosocial support a must post-disaster

Atle Dyregrov and William Yule were interviewed by IPS at the open forum “Psychosocial Response to Disasters with Focus on Children in Asia” in Bangkok last week.

The deputy executive director of the organiser Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), Aloysius Rego, said “psychosocial support will greatly assist people, especially children in recovering mental health. This is why we need to build more effective systems structures and mechanisms and this requires long-term support.” Read more »

Board supports Haitian training

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The Board of Directors has decided to support Leila Gupta and Eugenie Mukanoheli’s forthcoming travel to Haiti, where they plan to train personnel in the use of our manual.

The manual allows large groups of children to be helped, and has previously been used in earthquakes in Greece, Turkey, Iran and China. Read more »

Query to help Haitians

The Foundation is already receiving queries regarding help to Haitian children who have been affected by the devastating earthquake in the capital Port-au-Prince Tuesday. Read more »

CAW in Bangkok

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William Yule and Atle Dyregrov are two of the keynote speakers at an open forum, Psychosocial Response to Disasters, with international experts in the psychosocial field in Bangkok later this month. Read more »

Gaza-intervention completed

Our Gaza-based project, Evaluation of Writing for Recovery, reports that it has established a research group in Gaza, selected six schools and conducted random sampling. Read more »

Graca Machel: Challenges ahead

The Graca Machel Report 2009, which aims to inspire to action to improve the lives of children in conflict, concludes that there are challenges ahead. It says that more than one billion children under the age of 18 were living in areas in conflict or emerging from war. Read more »

Great activity in Malaysia

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Photo by Khalzuri.

Two previous workshop attendants, Indranee Liew and Dr Lai Fong Hwa, have informed us that they have trained at least 89 trainers in 2008 and 2009 in the Penang peninsula in Malaysia. Read more »

Many Kenyan children struggle

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Photo by Helge Søvdsnes.

“Many children are still struggling from the consequences of the violence from Kenyan elections last year,” our team reports after conducting a training in Nairobi recently. Read more »