MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHOSOCIAL WELLBEING PROGRAM MID YEAR
MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHOSOCIAL WELLBEING PROGRAM MID YEAR PRESENTATION 26 th June 2015 Pope Paul Memorial Hotel
STAFF Full Time Yusrah Nagujja- Manager Eve Achan- Psychosocial Counselor Francis Oyat- Counselor/ Social Worker Mary Kampogo- Psychosocial Counselor Hassan Sebugwawo- Counseling Assistant Part time Joshua Gato Interns Sonia Kanagwa Nyakato Winnie Masika Jamilah Namala Paul Ochen
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES Vision: A Forced Migrant Community Free From Mental And Psychosocial Challenges Mission: To be an exemplary provider and to contribute to creating a local and global policy and practice environment that can effectively, comprehensively, and appropriately up hold the mental and psychosocial wellbeing of forced migrants. Objectives: To provide proper treatment and care for people affected by Psychological and psychosocial issues To promote resilience and self reliance through building knowledge, skills , social and economic resources forced migrants To build capacity of key stakeholders in addressing mental and psychosocial Issues of forced migrants To influence policy and practice at national and global level so as to make priority the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of forced migrants
COUNSELING Output immediate outcomes 425 individuals (274 F, 149 M and 2 others) -engage in work - Improved and education wellbeing -stable families 25 families (121 people) - parenting 3 groups (38 people) -friendships and relationships 5 couples (10 people) - sense of joy and appreciation of life 5 Child friendly spaces ( 75 children) -Increased sense of safety and belonging Medium outcomes Challenges Aspirations -Overwhelming numbers -Up to 10 sessions for quality -Ability to give - Finances back to others - Basic needs and (peer support) medical care e. g. - Transport -Improved social life -Follow up -Social healing for targeted communities (settlements) - Influencing other actors to mainstream mental health -Social media
QUOTES “I had too many thoughts, I tried killing myself several times because I had lost hope in life…… but I got it all back… am saying my life was restored after counseling… this thing called counseling is really wonderful, it has rescued me and my family … ” (a 42 year old Congolese man) “This place has shown me that I am valuable” (22 year old Congolese young woman looking after her two cousins) “I did not know that my children valued what I do for them, their feedback has brought me joy and courage to move on” (32 year old woman struggling to look after her 8 children)
GROUP SUPPORT Output immediate outcomes 350 people in 7 refugee support groups - Social capital One proposal written to ABILIS to support PWDs livelihoods Medium outcomes -Improved Psychological - Reduces distress wellbeing - Leadership skills - Improved Social -Generate and Economic incomes wellbeing - Self confidence -Awareness on torture among communities Challenges Aspirations -Limited finances -Leadership training for support groups -Suspension weakened the -Self advocacy for groups -Groups not fully -Raise Financial developed resources for groups -Lack of group Cohesion -Encourage local partners to work with our support groups - Groups to run on their own for sustainability purposes
REFERRALS TO OUR PARTNERS Challenges Output immediate outcomes Medium outcomes -200 refugees referred -110 access medical care through ACTV, Inter. Aid, KCCA, Mulago, and MTI -Limited -Improved physical health mandates of partner - Improved organizations standard of living -37 access food and housing through Inter. Aid, JRS, and Samaritan Purse -12 refugee access education through Windle trust -Reduced exposure to risks and risky behaviors Aspirations -Advocate for mental health inclusion in their programming and budgeting (Peer Counselor’s Presentation on world Refugee Day)
CAPACITY BUILDING/ AWARENESS RAISING Output immediate outcomes Medium outcomes Challenges Aspirations -50 peer counselors trained -Peer counselors supported 150 - improved psychosocial wellbeing for refugees -No IDs and facilitation for the Peer Counselors - Follow up on recommendations made to and by stakeholders -8 community psycho education sessions -2 prison officers trainings -2 presentations on disability inclusion to about 50 organizations -1 stakeholder training on torture -increased awareness on torture -clients live in awareness - awareness of disability issues -clients seek for mental health services -improved response and service provision - Clients negative -improved access perception on RLP to services for refugees -Build capacity of peer counselors
LIVELIHOODS Output immediate outcomes 92 women for business skills training -How to spend, save and invest -monitoring of livelihood projects (Poultry, ducks, goats, tailoring and others) Medium outcomes -Increase in incomes for some -How to save in beneficiaries groups and how to formulate saving rules -How to control their market Challenges Aspirations -Time constraints -on going support during the and capacity trainings building -loss of items by -Close monitoring beneficiaries -net working with -Little capital other organizations doing livelihoods( Share best Practices)
RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY Output immediate outcomes Medium outcomes -Screening of 325 refugees at I & A -proper data on mental health -improved access to services -300 women Identified and Profiled -qualitative understanding of MH issues -Improved physical, social, mental and economic wellbeing -discussion and statement on day of the African Child -Completed and approved a biopsychosocial mental health assessment tool - children know their rights and responsibilities - appreciate the physiological and psychological devep’t of children -better protection of children Challenges -lack of cooperation from partners Aspirations On next Page
RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY Output immediate outcomes Medium outcomes - Advocacy paper to the Private Sector Federation to support children - - -Baseline on ‘psychosocial challenges among refugee female in Nakivale’ -Commemoration and Statement on world refugee day -Assessment of mental health symptoms among 40 of support group member -discussions held with stakeholders -awareness on mental health issues affecting refugees CONT’ Challenges Aspirations -lack of cooperation -use data and from partners reports to stir discussions in national and international forums -Influence UNHCR and other partners to notice and act on MH issues -Mainstream refugees into Ugandan MH services -More emphasis on child protection in refugee settings
RESETTLEMENT Output immediate outcomes -26 home visits done -able to identify key needs to be dealt with -12 testimonies -2 cases referred -2 were given emergency and crisis support Medium outcomes Challenges -Time Aspirations -Refer 2 cases per month
TEAM STRENGTHENING Output immediate outcomes Medium outcomes -Trained 7 staff in Interpersonal Group Therapy -Gained theory on group counseling -Improved psychological wellbeing for refugees -Staff carry out group counseling -Monthly Mental Health -counseling Mentoring and supervision skills -proper client management Challenges Aspirations
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