Online Certificate-Psychological First Aid for Migrants, Refugees, and Displaced Persons

8th Edition of the Psychological First Aid for Migrants, Refugees, and Displaced Persons

"Construction of the Social Structure and Networks:

alternatives of human quality and solidarity"

General Objective:

The overall objective of this course is to strengthen response measures and create alternatives for action to safeguard the quality of life of migrants, refugees, and displaced persons in a context where human mobility is becoming increasingly threatened.

Specific Objectives:

  • Identify the migration and refugee process in the region, emphasizing the opportunities for improvement concerning the defense of human rights and accompaniment of migrants, refugees, and displaced persons.
  • Provide psychological tools to face the different implications of migration, asylum, and forced displacement in the current context.
  • Identify the risk behaviors of migrants, refugees, and displaced persons from an intersectional human rights perspective, to channel them to specialized care services.
  • Building a culture of self-care and caring for the teams that work with the migrant, displaced, and refugee community (especially children, adolescents, and women).
  • Make visible the construction of the social system that has been built through humanitarian networks to develop a new human rights agenda from the perspective of solidarity and empathy.

Time frame: August 3rd to December 7, 2022

Cost of registration: $250 USD

Registration Deadline: July 31, 2022

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