With Lifeline, community members and the NGO get an idea of how the quality of life changed over the years in the community and what furthered and what hindered change. Qualitative Means of Verification >>Lifeline>> Guidance Read more
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Poster 3 from Living with the Times: A mental health and psychosocial support toolkit for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic https://app.mhpss.net/toolkit-for-older-adults-during-covid-19-pandemic Printing Guidelines https://app.mhpss.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/printing-guidelines-for-living-with-the-times-posters.pdf Read more
Ebola interventions: listen to communities (2015) Read more
Guidance for School-Based Psychosocial Programmes for Teachers, Parents and Children in Conflict and Postconflict Areas Read more
Tankink, M. (2004). Not talking about traumatic experiences: harmful or healing? Coping with war memories in southwest Uganda. Intervention, 2(1), 3-17. Although there has been peace in most parts of Uganda since 1986, in Mbarara district in southwest Uganda... Read more
The purpose of this research paper is to examine the usefulness of the social entrepreneurship (SE) framework in highlighting effective models of service development and practice in mental health equity. Read more
Active case finding (which includes contact tracing) ensures early identification and prompt isolation of potential cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD), leading to successful interruption of transmission in a community. Failure to identify and follow up all contacts could... Read more
How locals/communities are responding to the disease outbreak. NB: Includes thinking on children affected by Ebola and the communitie's proposed solutions which includes creating orphanages for children who have lost their parents. Read more
This paper is a brief account of seven years of project work in Sri Lanka that began as a Canadian university-led initiative in support of the Convention for the Rights of the Child. The work resulted in the formation... Read more
A community-based approach to address psychosocial problems was used, and the interventions were aimed to include: • Training community health workers in identification and intervention for psychosocial problems, thereby • Develop their knowledge and skills to use a variety... Read more
