Accessible Strategies to Support Children's Mental Health and Wellbeing in Emergencies: Experience from the Rohingya Refugee Camp

Autor/in	Mansur, Samier
Titel	Accessible Strategies to Support Children's Mental Health and Wellbeing in Emergencies: Experience from the Rohingya Refugee Camp
Quelle	In: Journal on Education in Emergencies, 7 (2021) 1, S.150-163 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2518-6833
Schlagwörter	Mental Health; Child Health; Access to Health Care; Well Being; Refugees; Educational Technology; Technology Uses in Education; Video Technology; Foreign Countries; Stress Management; Trauma; Training; Allied Health Personnel; Parent Education; Coping; Program Effectiveness; Culturally Relevant Education; Bangladesh; Burma + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychohygiene; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Flüchtling; Unterrichtsmedien; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Ausland; Stressmanagement; Stressbewältigung; Ausbildung; Parents education; Elternbildung; Elternschule; Bewältigung; Bangladesch
Abstract	More than half a billion children globe-wide currently live in conflict or crisis contexts (UNICEF 2016), including more than 30 million displaced and refugee children (UNICEF 2020). The extreme and often prolonged adversity suffered in these environments can have lifelong physical, psychological, and socioeconomic consequences for children, and thus for society, and can affect an entire generation. Despite these dire consequences, less than 0.14 percent of global humanitarian financial aid is allocated to child mental health (Save the Children 2019). Frontline aid workers and parents and guardians often lack access to early childhood development training, and to the resources needed to meaningfully address the unique challenges faced by children living in crisis and conflict environments, including their mental health and wellbeing. To meet these critical knowledge and resource gaps, No Limit Generation, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC, developed a video training platform to equip frontline aid workers, parents, and guardians across the globe to support the wellbeing of vulnerable children. No Limit Generation then conducted a month-long pilot study in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh to test this technology-driven training approach. In this field note, we describe our program design and pilot findings, which we consider a possible strategy for delivering sustainable and scalable early childhood development training and resources to workers on the front lines. Our hope is that this innovative work will help young children around the world heal, grow, and thrive, and ultimately achieve their full potential. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies. 122 East 42nd Street, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10168. e-mail: journal@inee.org; Web site: https://inee.org/evidence/journal
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01