Aid workers need high quality training
In a context which has become increasingly professionalized, yet more and more dangerous, humanitarian workers can no longer rely on rough and ready made skills. This means high quality training in all areas of emergency operations, including the mental health and psychosocial response to the victims in situations of high levels of stress and violence.
This includes two sets of learned competence:
- Hands-on knowledge of humanitarian Mental Health and Psychosocial management
- Skills to become stress resistant to increasingly insecure environments
One does not go without the other.
The CHP’s approach
The CHP believes that humanitarian relief workers, both international and national, as well as national / local NGOs, need specialized training in the field of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in emergency contexts to understand who they are working with and how to personally handle their difficult job. They need hands on tools to face the unpredictable and bring the best of themselves to the beneficiaries.
The CHP has developed a preventive approach to help agencies build their own in-house staff care system, offer live and distance learning to enhance the relief workers’ professionalism in humanitarian contexts, and help grow a better understanding of the relation between stress and security.
The CHP’s training programs introduce the aid worker to the latest knowledge in these fields, based on academic research, as well as give them the practical skills to face high levels of stress and critical incidents in the humanitarian field.
The Training Programs
The CHP offers two sets of courses:
The CHP offers these programs, in the form of
- Live 1 or 2 day workshops in Geneva, Switzerland
- In-house courses upon request by interested agencies and tailored to their needs
A distance learning kit on the subject of Stress Management in Insecure Environment, in English, is also available on this website.
