Learning Forum Program onPsychosocial Support in Disaster Situation:The Roles and Skills of Social Workers in Asia PacificCollaboration of Indonesian Association of Social Workers,Ministry of Social Affairs and IFSW-APBackgroundAround 40% of Indonesia’s population, more than 90 million people, live in areas at risk ofdisasters.1 The most common disasters include flood, wind cyclones, landslides and recurrentdestructive risks include tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. The most vulnerablecommunity to disasters is children, women, and specific groups like disable person. Theimpact of disaster on children is beyond of casualties and injuries because children oftenexperience psychological distress following disasters, affecting their ability to learn and togrow. These emergency situations also interrupt the school year and harm safety of thechildren and their families. For instance, disruptions to education services have a long termimpact on ability to learn and school attendance. Many children who are displaced, or whoseschools are damaged or destroyed during a crisis, or who are pulled out of school to supporttheir families, never return.
It had been acknowledged that social work has important roles in providing support forpeople affected by disaster. Psychosocial support is one of intervention that usually providedby social workers aftermath of disaster. The roles of social workers in this area continueduring rehabilitation process particular in stage where affected people begin again to rebuildtheir lives. Disaster, even though in low level, always change people lives in immediately andbother or destroy all levels and orders that already established by people, both individually orcommunal. The main role of social workers is to help people to restore their self reliance andresilience, where people will able to cope with crisis situation as impact of disaster, adaptwith new situation that demand new roles and continue their live with safety and achievewelfare condition.
Many social workers have been working in emergency response and they demonstrate theirability and skills in assisting people to recover the psychosocial situation. Their experiencesand practices are worthy to be shared with other colleagues to take learning and becomingbasis for improvement social work practices with emergency response. This is the role ofsocial work association to facilitate this learning forum and bring all learning for advocacywork for policy and program implementation improvement.	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	   	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  1	  http://www.unisdr.org/files/14757_6thCGCountryProgramSummaries1.pdf	  Pusbinjabfung Kemensos RI, Jalan Dewi Sartika No. 200Telp. 021 80877378, Fax. 0210 808 77341Website: www.ipspi.org, Email: Sekretariat@ipspi.org	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  GoalThe program aims to strengthen roles and skills of social workers in providing psychosocialsupport in disaster situation.
After the program, participant will be able to:1. Explain advanced knowledge of psychosocial support.
2. Improve the psychosocial support program that they design to response psychosocialneeds in disaster situation.
3. Demonstrate the roles and skills in provision of psychosocial support in disaster situationresponse for target group that they manage.
Output1. Role and competencies of social workers in providing psychosocial support in disastersituation.
2. Knowledge, concepts and models of psychosocial support in disaster situation3. Program design of psychosocial support in disaster situation in the specific situationSubthemes:1. Understanding psychosocial needs of disaster's survivors.
2. Implementation of rights based approach and principles in psychosocial support.
3. Knowledge of therapies used in disaster situation.
4. Stress management for social workers in providing psychosocial support in disastersituation.
5. Developing psychosocial support models for: children, woman and other vulnerablegroups in disaster situation.
6. Community based psychosocial support in disaster situation.
7. Monitoring and evaluation of “psychosocial support programs in disaster situation”.
Date and venueThe program will be held at January 12th – 14th, 2016 at Pusdiklat Kesejahteraan Sosial,Margaguna, Jakarta, IndonesiaTarget of participantsWe target 60 participants from Indonesia and other IFSW-AP member countries. They arefrom organization including from government that have experiences in working in emergencyresponse on providing psychosocial support. We target participants are social workers whoare practitioners, lectures, researchers and decision makers.

Pusbinjabfung Kemensos RI, Jalan Dewi Sartika No. 200Telp. 021 80877378, Fax. 0210 808 77341Website: www.ipspi.org, Email: Sekretariat@ipspi.org	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  Participants beyond Indonesia are expected to cover by themselves transportation cost and allexpenses during the program. Hotel accommodation and meals along the program will becover by Host. Pusdiklat Kesejahteraan Sosial is a Guest House under the Ministry of SocialWelfare management.
The program will be held in English and Bahasa Indonesia.
Agendaa. Understanding Psychosocial Needs of Disaster's Survivors”b. Implementation of rights based approach and principles in psychosocial support”The program will be divided into three sections:1. Inspiration speeches: Plenary sessions in every morning to deliver updated context ofdisaster, advanced knowledge and practices including policy implementation onpsychosocial support. The subjects for plenary sessions are:1) Indonesian context in disaster.
2) Social work in crisis and larger system in disaster situation and response.
3) Psychosocial support approach for people in special needs: what it is and why it is soimportant in disaster situation.
2. Program learning session: Sharing practices and learning from field on provision ofpsychosocial supports in disaster situation.
1) Implementation of rights based approach and principles in psychosocial support.
2) Best practices in delivery psychosocial support.
3) Knowledge of therapies that usually used in disaster (game therapy, art therapy,cognitive behavior therapy, eg).
4) How to monitor psychosocial support activities in disaster situation5) Improving psychosocial support models for group of children, woman and othergroup.
6) Community based psychosocial support in disaster situation.
7) Stress management for social workers in providing psychosocial support in disastersituation.
3. Skills building sessions: Workshop sessions in the afternoon to enhance skills onpsychosocial capacities.
1) Assessment skills in psychosocial support.
2) Roles and competencies of social workers in psychosocial support and disastermanagement.
3) Skills to encourage community participation in emergency response.
4) Social workers self skills to cope with disaster situation.

Pusbinjabfung Kemensos RI, Jalan Dewi Sartika No. 200Telp. 021 80877378, Fax. 0210 808 77341Website: www.ipspi.org, Email: Sekretariat@ipspi.org	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  SpeakersWe propose the excellent speakers in this program that will be coming from:1. The Ministry of Social Affairs, Directorate General Protection and Social Security2. Psychosocial support expert in disaster from Japan and Indonesia3. Disaster management communities4. Participants from organization that are working with psychosocial support5. Our colleagues from Mental Health ProfessionalsRegistration:Send your application form and abstract to learningforum.ap2016@gmail.comRegistration and abstract submission deadline is on December 24, 2015(participation is free of charge)Day by day design of AgendaTime	  Description	  of	  Activities	  Monday,	
  January	  11,	  2016	  09.00	  -­‐	  17.00	   Arrival	  of	  Participants	  	  	  Registration	  of	  Participants	  19.00	  -­‐	  21.00	  	   Dinner	  	  	  	  	  Resource	  Persons	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	
  08.00	  -­‐	  08.30	  08.30	  -­‐	  09.00	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  09.00	  -­‐	  10.00	  	  	  10.00	  -­‐	  12.30	
  10.00	  -­‐10.30	  	
  10.30-­‐12.30	  	  Day	
  1,	  Tuesday,	  January	
  12,	  2016	
  Re-­‐registration	  &	  final	  check	  for	
  parallel	
  building	  session	  Opening	
  Ceremony	  	  	  	  	  -­‐	  Singing	
  National	  Anthem	  "Indonesia	  Raya"	  -­‐	  Pray	  -­‐	  Welcome	  speech	  	  	  	  Plenary	  Session	  :	  Inspirational	  Speeches	  	  	  Activity	  1	  Introduction:	  a. Disaster	  Management	  b. Group	  Discussion	  on	  Subthemes	  	  	  	  	  	  	  Activity	
  2:	  Group	  Discussion	  on	  subthemes	  	  	  	  (Lesson	  learnt	  from	
  countries	  of	  participants)	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  #	  group	  1:	  c. Understanding Psychosocial Needs of 	  	  	  Pusbinjabfung Kemensos RI, Jalan Dewi Sartika No. 200Telp. 021 80877378, Fax. 0210 808 77341Website: www.ipspi.org, Email: Sekretariat@ipspi.org	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  Disaster's Survivors”d. Implementation of rights based approachand principles in psychosocial support”	  #	  group	  2:	  	  a. Knowledge of therapies used in disastersituationb. Stress management for social workers inproviding psychosocial support in disastersituation.	  

	  	  

#	  group	  3:	  a.

a. Developing psychosocial support models 	  for: children, woman and other vulnerablegroups in disaster situationb. Community based psychosocial support in	  	  disaster situation#	  group	  4	  "Monitoring and evaluation of “psychosocialsupport programs in disaster situation”	
  12.30-­‐13.30	  13.30-­‐15.30	  	  Lunch	  Group	  Discussion	  on	  subthemes	  (continued)	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  #	  group	  1	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  a. Understanding Psychosocial Needs ofDisaster's Survivors”b. Implementation of rights based approachand principles in psychosocial support”	  	  	  #	  group	  2	  	  	  a. Knowledge of therapies used in disastersituationb. Stress management for social workers inproviding psychosocial support in disastersituation.	
  	  	  	  	  #	  group	  3	  	  	  	  	  a. Developing psychosocial support modelsfor: children, woman and other vulnerablegroups in disaster situationb. Community based psychosocial support in	  	  disaster situation	  	  #	  group	  4	  	  	  "Monitoring and evaluation of “psychosocialsupport programs in disaster situation”	  	  	  	  	  Pusbinjabfung Kemensos RI, Jalan Dewi Sartika No. 200Telp. 021 80877378, Fax. 0210 808 77341Website: www.ipspi.org, Email: Sekretariat@ipspi.org	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  15.30	  -­‐	  16.00	  16.00	  -­‐	  17.00	  Coffee	  Break	  Report	  from	  Facilitators	  (wrap	  up)	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  

Day	  3;	  Wednesday,	  January	  13,	  2016	  Plenary	  Session	  :	  Inspirational	  Speeches	  08.30	  -­‐	  10.00	  	  Coffee	  break	  10.00	  –	  10.15	  10.15	
  –	  10.30	   Introduction	  to	  Group	  Discussion	  on	  Subthemes	  Parallel	  Skills	  Building	  Session	
  of	  Social	
  Workers	  10.30	  -­‐	  12.30	   Intervention	  	  in	  Disaster	
  Situation	  	  	  #	  group	  1	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  Assessment skills in psychosocial support.	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  #	  group	  2	  Roles and competencies of social workers inpsychosocial support in disaster situation#	  group	  3	  " Skills to encourage community participationin disaster situation#	  group	  4	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  Social workers self skills to cope with inproviding “psychosocial support programs in
disaster situation”	  	
  12.30	  -­‐	  13.30	  13.30	  -­‐	  15.00	  	  	  15.00	  -­‐	  15.30	  	  Lunch	  Parallel	  Skills	  Building	  Session	  of	  Social	  Workers	  Intervention	  in	  Disaster	  Situation	  (Continued)	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  Break	  Workshop:Program design of psychosocial support indisaster situation in the specific situation
15.30	  –	  17.00	   (group 1 – 4)17.00	
  –	  19.00	   Break and Dinner	  	  a. Group Presentation
19.00	  –	  21.00	
  b. Wrap up	  	  21.00	  –	  21.30	   Preparation of field trip	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  Pusbinjabfung Kemensos RI, Jalan Dewi Sartika No. 200Telp. 021 80877378, Fax. 0210 808 77341Website: www.ipspi.org, Email: Sekretariat@ipspi.org	  	  	  	  	  08.00	  09.00	  09.00	  -­‐	  10.00	  	  	
  	  	
  12.00	  -­‐	  13.00	
  13.00	  -­‐	  15.00	
  15.00	  -­‐	  16.00	
  16.00	  -­‐	  19.00	  19.00	  -­‐	  22.00	
  	  	  Day	  4;	  Thursday,	
  January	
  14,	  2016	
  Lesson	  Learnt	
  from	  the	  Field	  Practice	  Group	  checking	  and	  preparation	  	
  departure	  to	  site	  visit	  #	  group	
  1	  :	  	  	  Psychosocial	
  support	  program	  in	  area	  of	  land	  sliding	  disaster	  in	  Bogor,	
  West	  Java	  #	  group	
  2	  :	  	  	  Psychosocial	  support	
  program	  for	  survivors	
  of	
  penggusuran	  (eviction)	
  in	  Kampung	  Pulo,	  Jakarta	  Lunch	  site	
  visit	  continued	  departure	  to	  Margaguna	  Break	  Dinner	  "Cultural	  Event	  &	  Closing	  Ceremony"	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  06.00 - 12.00Friday, January 15, 2016Departure of ParticipantsBreakfast	  Pusbinjabfung Kemensos RI, Jalan Dewi Sartika No. 200Telp. 021 80877378, Fax. 0210 808 77341Website: www.ipspi.org, Email: Sekretariat@ipspi.org