Online Certificate-Psychological First Aid for Migrants, Refugees, and Displaced Persons
By Health Initiative of the Americas on
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.
