The second training session for intercultural health mediators
ICAR Foundation organized between October 11 and 13, 2023, the second training session for intercultural health mediators involved in assisting people forcibly displaced from Ukraine.
The event took place at the Sea & Sky Villa in Costinești and gathered a number of 17 people, intercultural health mediators, Romanian and Russian/Ukrainian speakers.
The purpose of the session was to continue the steps started in June in the training of intercultural health mediators in order to facilitate the access of people forcibly displaced from Ukraine to medical and mental health services.
During the session, topics such as vulnerable groups (women and children from Ukraine) and their specific approach, notions of ethics and deontology derived from health codes, prevention of psycho-emotional exhaustion (burnout), intercultural health mediation, etc. were addressed. Practical cases were also addressed, emphasizing the challenges, barriers, and solutions in preventing/solving them.
The session was supported by trainers from the Republic of Moldova and Switzerland with extensive experience working with people affected by war and migration and the consequences they can have in terms of physical and mental health and was organized within the project “RAZOM (TOGETHER) – Network of physical and mental health services adapted to the needs of Ukrainian refugees”, implemented by the ICAR Foundation in partnership with the Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims “Memoria” (RCTV Memoria) with the financial support of Active Citizens Fund Romania, programme funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through EEA Grants 2014 – 2021.
