The final report of the union on the draft psychosocial interventions for children mostaffected by the conflict and war in Yemen
1-30 March2017
Report of the final phase of the project:
Psychosocial support for children affected by the war in Yemen
Of the union:
Rehabilitation and capacity building of mobile social workers to provide(Psychological andsocial interventions for children most affected by conflict and war in Yemen)
Funded by the international Federation of Social Workers and the General Union of Yemen
Social and Psychological Workers.

Contents of the report:
1-Introduction
2-program Goals
3-The main activities of the project:*Training and rehabilitation of social workers on psychological and social interventions forchildren in the early age of (90)specialists.
*Forming(10)teams to provide psychosocial support.
*Implementation of psychological and social support sessions for affected children (50psychological and social support sessions)for morethan1200children(500)Males(700)Females.
*Conduct awareness and guidance sessions for affected familiesof600children(300males)(300famales).
4-Highlights of the psychosocial support teams and difficulties.
5-Recommendations.
6-Closing.

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Introduction:
The General Union of Yemeni Social and psychosocial Workers has responded to theemergency humanitarian response to the war-affected needs of Sana'a in the most affecteddistricts by training and rehabilitating social workers to provide psychosocial interventions
for children in emergencies (90)social workers and specialists were targeted and (10)mobile
field teams to provide psychosocial and social support in Sana'a , psychosocial support
teams out (50) psychosocial support sessions for children it has access to more than
(1200)affected children(500males)(700famales) and the implementation of(20)awarenesssessions and guidance for the families of children affected by the number of(600)(300males)(300famales).
The main objective of these activities was to seek to respond to children's psychosocial andsocial needs through individual and group sessions to provide psychosocial support throughteams of social workers who have been trained and built up their capacity to provide
HIV/AIDS interventions to children and their families, and contributing to building thecapacity of affected families (man and women)and affected communities on how to provide
first-aid psychosocial to their children providing psychosocial support to the community andraising their awareness about child protection issues in case of emergencies.
1-Project objectives(psychosocial interventions for children in emergency situations in
Yemen.

*General objective:
Immediate response to the provision of psychosocial support to children and their families inemergency situations and in areas most affected by conflict and war by a team of trained
and competent social workers and psychosocial.

Procedural objectives:
1-Training and capacity-building of(90)social and psychosocial specialists in the provision of
psychosocial support for children and families most affected by emergencies in the targeted
governorate.
2-Forming (20)teams to provide psychosocial support in emergencies in the most affected
governorate.
3-Provide psychosocial and social safety for affected children and their families from conflict,
war and displacement and improve their access to services through a participatory
approach.
4-Respond quickly to psychosocial interventions for those affected by emergency events byproviding individual and group psychosocial support sessions for children and families inYemen.
5-To promote the positive attitudes of providing psychosocial support to their children.
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The main activities of the project (psychological and social interventions for children mostaffected by conflict and war in Yemen):
Conducting a training course for the social workers' team on the provision of childpsychosocial interventions most affected by the of psychosocial interventions.
The General Union in cooperation with the social service Department prepared andimplemented (3)training courses for social workers' teams on psychosocial interventions forchildren most affected in emergencies, the rehabilitation and training of (90)specialists insana 'a in emergency situations was targeted in2017 under the auspices and supervision of
the international federation of social workers.
Social workers were trained at the following levels of interventions;the field visit to persons affected in the event venue emergency.
The objective of the visit:

1. psychosocial/ Ambulance psychological initial.
2. needs assessment and participatory manner.
3. rapid response to some of the needs (conversion to the service providers).

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The second level:of psychological intervention of social after the event emergency (program Zoya
psychosocial support collective children:
supportactivities psychosocial open aims of these activities to: -help children to feel safe and fun and love of life and get rid of fear and tension
after the event.
 help children to express freely their feelings associated with the event through playor drawing or games motor in an atmosphere safe and control of his world help children re- psychological balance after the event Emergency the introductionof joy for the same of the child.
-Evaluation of the situation of children post.
 event emergency which you need to enter a deeper later. The formation of groups
guidance for children.

Group sessions with parents:. hearings collective with parents come sessions collective parents within the second level ofpsychosocial interventions social and after the stage of assessment of the event emergency.
are in conjunction parallelism with the sessions collective for children. The sessions
intervention targets collective mechanisms for the application of sessions specialized tointerfere with parents in emergency situations and wars, who passed through experiences ofcatastrophic or crises, in order to provide the specialists/ and workers/ and in theemergency plan a clear and its method to interfere with parents, aims to increase awarenessof parents. pressures that they are exposed to enable them skills and adaptive after theevent. as well as providing them with skills to deal with children through the seven sessions
specialized, crisis and it will provide an explanation of the plan as the following: the goal ofinterference with the Group: To assist members of the Group on the discharge their feelings
and the direction of the conditions pressing the resulting from the difficulties of life ofdifferent. To increase awareness of the group members the direction of manifestations andsymptoms resulting from the pressure of situation of violent behavior and its impact on thechildren- to increase awareness of the group members and provide them with strategies andthe necessary to relieve the impact of pressures on them and their children. To provide theindividuals ways and mechanisms to the appropriate to deal with the symptoms that onchildren to be supportive and supportive to them- education group members the right skills
to deal with their children in emergency situations and wars.

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Level III:PROGRAMME OF MEETINGS Assembly and individual specialized for children affected byshock- technology Vibrio Butterfly(Abta) First: sessions collective children 2. The children
usually are silent victims of events emergency, their skills mental life experiences, Ltd. does
not help them to express the level of sorrow and mental anguish and physical, as well as
their ability limited to meet the effects resulting from the events emergency, so it isimportant to help children and quick impact on the tiredness and strengthen their sense ofsafe and adaptability, and to overcome the psychological effects, social and so as not todevelop those psychological symptoms to mental disorders serious is difficult to overcome,so has adopted the teams psychosocial support methodology for therapeutic groups ofchildren called the technology Vibrio Butterfly depends Platform ,Abta, Butterfly on the ideathat children when exposed to the events of shocking remain the painful memories juvenile
stored in memory, and in certain parts of the brain, even if the on the intervals, andcontinues impact on human life, and affect its stability and performance, has lead to themental disorders, if not be treated. The use of the curriculum and movements (VibrioButterfly) give rise to both sides of the brain and the left and right to re- contact channels
between both sides of the brain to operate on the pass the liberalization of these memories
stored and accompanied by the feelings of physical which helps to deal with them andmitigation.

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The conclusion of the specialist field program forYemeni SocialWorkers:
The conclusion of the program field training specialist of Social Workers Yemeni about(psychosocial interventions and social emergency) the launch of the work teams
interventions psychosocial consisting of( 115) Specialist social of both men and women inthe capital Sanaa, in emergency situations the academic year 2017) under the auspices ofsupervision of the International Federation of Social Workers conclude General Union ofSocial Workers and psychologists Yemeni the Department of social service in faculty of Arts&humanity in the presence of Dr. Sukina Ahmed Hashim Vice Dean for students andsupervisors academics and training program the field A/ Majed Abdullah spectrum HumaidiTeaching Assistant Department of social service and vice president of the union A/ Saddam
Hussein Mohammed Huwara Teaching Assistant Department of service and Head of thedevelopment of professions in the union A/ Talaat Hassan Hamoud stools Director of theOffice field training a/ Ameen Dibwan Maflahi Teaching Assistant Department of social
service ,in presence of, and follow- up the President of General Union of Social Workers andpsychologists Yemeni a/ Rafaet Hassan Hamoud.

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Provide psychosocial intervention for the most severely affected children in
emergency situations in the capital city
Number of
Number ofFamily
Psychosoci Number of The
Ntargetedchildren
psychosoc al supportsocialteam
families
targeted
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females males females Male sessions
s30

30

10050

2

5

930

30

60

60

2

5

930

30

4060

2

5

930

30

100

40

25930

30

2080

25930

30

80

20

25930

30

50

80

25930

30

100

30

2

5930

30

50

60

2

5

9303010020259Firstteam
Secondteam
ThirdTeam
FourthTeam
FifthTeamSixthTeamSeventhTeamEighthTeamNinthTeamTenthTeam

12345678910300
300
700
500
20session 50 session
90specialist
Total
The team was able to achieve through mobile and fixed teams from the provision of thenumber of 50 sessions of psychosocial and social support for more than1200 children(500males-500females).The sessions were aimed at children quickly to enhance their sense ofsafety and ability to adjust and overcome psychosocial effects psychosocial support groups
have found various forms and types of mental disorders intervention requires specialized
individual sessions to support psychosocial and social support and in the second phase,teams will provide specialized interventions.
A total of 20 advisory sessions were also provided to parents children affected by the war for
600 people( 300 males-300females).the sessions included increasing the awareness of thepeople with pressures and enabling them to adapt post-event skills as well as providing ofdealing with children and provide them with psychosocial and social support for the family
and community through specialized sessions of crises.

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Highlighted the difficulties faced by the psychosocial support teams
to continue interventions:*Lack of financial resources for psychosocial support teams instead of transportation forthese areas to provide psychosocial and social services for children.
*Lack of tools and means of psychosocial support for children.
*The inability of the teams to cover many of the effected areas, especially remote, due tolack of financial possibilities.
*Most people need the support of humanitarian actors and whenever they hear hear of any
human intervention met and expressed their grievances and demands and much inproviding the humanitarian needs of the people(health, food, water , education, nutrition,sanitation, livelihoods, non-food items, shelter and psychosocial and social support in light ofthe deteriorating and humanitarian situation.
*Because of cultural beliefs and custom in society, women and girls face difficulties andobstacles to their participation in community activities as a result, the psychosocial team has(90%)female specialists we found that the participation of women and girls in psychosocial
support interventions in the targeted areas was higher than that of males.
There were many targeted children who were happy about recreational and artistic
activities for psychosocial support the children were excited to participate in the activities.On the one hand, some children were sad when they learned that the mobile teams would
not come the next day because the activity period was short and specific but most of thechildren were very happy and asked the teams to come back again.
Recommendations:*We hope that the international federation of social workers will support the Yemeni socialand psychological workers syndicate to continue the program and provide integrated
services to the affected people*We call upon the international federation of social workers to appeal to internationalorganizations active in the humanitarian field intervene and respond to the needs of people
and displaced persons most affected by conflict and war in Yemen it responds to people's
needs for basic services ((health, food, water , education, nutrition, sanitation, livelihoods,
non-food items, shelter and psychosocial support)*Create a friend safe space for the children to respond to the needs of children inpsychosocial support and raise their awareness about protection issues awareness-raising
activities on mine hazards and establishment of community protection committees andfocus on vulnerable children identified through case management and referral system forservice providers.

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1-30 March2017*There is a need to create safe spaces for women to provide protection and psychosocial
support services to women and girls in some areas where the participation of women incommunity activities.
There is a need to increase the number of psychosocial support teams and number ofmobile teams they must be trained and empowered to be more active in interventions forpsychosocial support in emergency protection(psychosocial support, first aid psychosocial,first aid. Mine risk education)

Closing:
During the activities and interventions carried out by the union, it became clear to us thesize of the risks and needs facing people due to the ongoing people due to the ongoing
conflict and war where there is an urgent need to continue activities and respond to
emergencies and provide comprehensive protection services for the most vulnerable andvulnerable children and their families in Yemen.

Therefore, we hope that the International Federation of social
workers will continue to support the union in terms of material,technical and technical.

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