I am very interested in your entry. Too often psychosocial services for survivors of trafficking are not given the proper priority in programs. While many programs say they provide counseling or psychosocial services they either lack the funding or experienced staff to implement this part of their program successfully- this is not only a disservice to survivors but is potentially harmful to them as well. It is heartening to hear of a project that is not only putting this need front and center but is approaching it from such an innovative perspective. Well done.
I was wondering if you could explain more fully the activities of this innovation. It is unclear to me from your entry if you do direct service provision for survivors or if you "teach" other how to "do psychosocial services" for survivors successfully. If so- have you considered making some type of toolkit to guide others for best practices around this? The International Center for Research on Women has a stigma toolkit that might serve as an interesting model for you to look at.
I'm looking forward to hearing more!
Laura Cardinal
Public Health and Human Trafficking Specialist
Dear Laura.
Thanks for your comments. At Odanadi, we provid direct services to the residents related to their psychological aspects and also conduct workshops, discussions and debates amongst the experts to turn them into therapeutic experts. It is a blend of conventional counselling and therapeutic intervention through various art forms and joyful strategies. Here, we remain non-judgmental about the victim's behavioral problems but address each problem with a tool which is close to her heart. While many times, medical intervention and counselling sessions are not received positively by the survivors, they definitely like to involve in activities like Martial arts, which means a lotfrom the point of their psychological reinforcement.
For example, lack of confidence, hatredness lower self esteem and aggressive violent behavior are some of the salient features of minds of survivors. Victim needed a outlet to exhaust her frustration and anger and always wanted to rescue herself from the clutches of traffickers. Martial Arts aims at rebuilding the self-confidence of survivors by making them realise and recognise their potential, in using both their body and mind through discipline and with controlled aggression for positive purposes. The art of channelizing their strength for maximum affect and result is in focus. The survivors also learn the need to give and take respect even while they attune their mind and body to respond in camaraderie. Martial arts is something many residents had heard of and aspired for but never dreamt of securing the skill. It removes the feeling of insecurity and the feeling of being helpless and hapless beings unable to fight transgression on their private and personal self. The art says a lot and avoids unwanted inquisitional conversations too.
Thanks for your valuable suggestion. We will definetely make the 'Tool Kit' on this intervention. Please send me the stigma tool Kit. It sounds interesting to me.
Stanly
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Dear Stanly Kizhakeparambil Varghese,
I am very interested in your entry. Too often psychosocial services for survivors of trafficking are not given the proper priority in programs. While many programs say they provide counseling or psychosocial services they either lack the funding or experienced staff to implement this part of their program successfully- this is not only a disservice to survivors but is potentially harmful to them as well. It is heartening to hear of a project that is not only putting this need front and center but is approaching it from such an innovative perspective. Well done.
I was wondering if you could explain more fully the activities of this innovation. It is unclear to me from your entry if you do direct service provision for survivors or if you "teach" other how to "do psychosocial services" for survivors successfully. If so- have you considered making some type of toolkit to guide others for best practices around this? The International Center for Research on Women has a stigma toolkit that might serve as an interesting model for you to look at.
I'm looking forward to hearing more!
Laura Cardinal
Public Health and Human Trafficking Specialist
Dear Laura.
Thanks for your comments. At Odanadi, we provid direct services to the residents related to their psychological aspects and also conduct workshops, discussions and debates amongst the experts to turn them into therapeutic experts. It is a blend of conventional counselling and therapeutic intervention through various art forms and joyful strategies. Here, we remain non-judgmental about the victim's behavioral problems but address each problem with a tool which is close to her heart. While many times, medical intervention and counselling sessions are not received positively by the survivors, they definitely like to involve in activities like Martial arts, which means a lotfrom the point of their psychological reinforcement.
For example, lack of confidence, hatredness lower self esteem and aggressive violent behavior are some of the salient features of minds of survivors. Victim needed a outlet to exhaust her frustration and anger and always wanted to rescue herself from the clutches of traffickers. Martial Arts aims at rebuilding the self-confidence of survivors by making them realise and recognise their potential, in using both their body and mind through discipline and with controlled aggression for positive purposes. The art of channelizing their strength for maximum affect and result is in focus. The survivors also learn the need to give and take respect even while they attune their mind and body to respond in camaraderie. Martial arts is something many residents had heard of and aspired for but never dreamt of securing the skill. It removes the feeling of insecurity and the feeling of being helpless and hapless beings unable to fight transgression on their private and personal self. The art says a lot and avoids unwanted inquisitional conversations too.
Thanks for your valuable suggestion. We will definetely make the 'Tool Kit' on this intervention. Please send me the stigma tool Kit. It sounds interesting to me.
Stanly
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