Tutori di Resilienza
Milan, ITALY
Target
Operatori e operatrici del Terzo Settore, insegnanti, educatori e educatrici in contesti vulnerabili
Obiettivi
Promuovere la capacità di bambini, famiglie e comunità di attivare risorse personali e collettive per superare la sofferenza e avviare processi di rinascita sociale
Partner
International Catholic Child Bureau (BICE), La Salle Foundation, Fondazione Marista per la Solidarietà Internazionale ETS, Fratelli Project, Caritas di Lublino
The project “Tutori di Resilienza” is a cooperation and development initiative aimed at strenghtening the skills of the local staff in context affected by conflict, disasters and violences. Developped in collaboration with the Research Unit on Resilience (RiRes) of the University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, the project is aimed to professionals of helping relationship, humanitarian operators and local volunteers, offering them a specialized training integrating operational tools and a shared protocole for taking charge of vulnerable people.
Through formative targeted courses, the local staff and MHPSS operators (Mental Health and Psychosocial Support) acquire evidence-based skills, adapted to the cultural specificities of the various contexts of intervention.
The "Tutors of Resilience" program works around the concept of resilience, by transferring the feasibility of this term, originally used in physics, to the psycho-social field, where it indicates the ability to adapt and resume the journey in adverse circumstances. Adversity can take different forms, physical or moral : the death of a loved one, illness, divorce, loss of home, abandonment of its home country, natural disasters, conditions of extreme poverty or vulnerability.
The basic assumption of this project is the belief that human beings have the ability to overcome adversity, but that the support of 'resilience guardians', that could be people but also symbolic places of affection, activities and opportunities for dialogue, allow the person to take back its life with courage and the necessary strenght to look into the future.
“Tutors of Resilience” is a training intervention model addressed to operators, researchers and educators, to acquire the necessary skills to operate in emergency contexts and in situations of chronic vulnerability. The final goal is the elaboration of intervention techniques and programs aimed at helping local communities to face in the best possible way the effect of traumatizing situations and the adversities experienced.
The programs carried out so far have involved :
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SYRIA : 1,200 children and 28 educators in Aleppo and Nebek
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LEBANON : 1,400 children and 27 educators in Saida
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IRAQI KURDISTAN : 1,300 children and 40 educators in Erbil and Sulaymaniyah
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PALESTINE : 100 children and 15 educators in Bethlehem
