We provide psychosocial support services to trauma survivors.
WHAT IS HAPPENING?
Psychological well-being is one of the main components of health. Protecting and improving the spiritual health of the people in regions where disaster, crisis etc. events are experienced are within the interventions with high priority.
Nonetheless, it has been observed around the world that there is an increase in psychological problems in 2019 in the regions facing with humanitarian crises. Especially, the people living in Bangladesh, Iraq, Jordan, Nigeria, Southern Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Palestine need psychological support.
WHAT DO WE DO?
Yeryüzü Doktorları carried out their first activities in this area by organizing psychosocial support activities for the local people after the 2011 Van Earthquake and the Soma Disaster in 2014. In the later period, work on psychosocial support continued and many projects have been developed after identifying their current local psychological health system.
In addition, regular psychological support services are provided in the clinics where basic health services are provided.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
You can contribute to our psychological support projects with your donations.
The programs that we continue to actively carry out our psychosocial support activities are as follows:
GAZA HOME HEALTHCARE SERVICES
Yeryüzü Doktorları is the only institution among the international institutions providing healthcare services in Gaza. The local community have been provided psychological support in order for them to get over their traumas resulting from the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Within this scope, Yeryüzü Doktorları conducts informative and supportive activities towards the local people and focus groups.
Our activities have still been continuing since 2016 in Gaza, and 4 thousand 459 sessions have been delivered to people until May 2019.
You can visit our “Gaza Crisis” page to find out the details on our psychological support activities carried out by mobile medical teams. To visit the page, click here.
REFUGEE HEALTH TRAINING CENTERS PROJECT
With the aim of providing integration between Syrian health workers and Turkish Healthcare System, Refugee Health Training Centers Project has been launched in January 2017 within the stakeholderships of Ministry of Health and World Health Organization. Within the scope of this project, individual psychosocial support for 1 thousand 370 beneficiaries and psychosocial group sessions have been provided for 69 beneficiaries.
You can click here go our “Syrian Crisis” page to learn more about our ongoing Refugee Health Training Centers Project.
ISTANBUL - KILIS COMMUNITY CENTERS
European Union Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Operations Unit (ECHO) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) funded by Turkey Local Initiatives Fund (LIFT) under the project; It has been displaced refugees living in Turkey / psychosocial support for the maintenance of health services and counseling for refugees in order Kilis in Istanbul and was established two community center. In these centers, services such as improving access to health services, appointment to health institutions, follow-up and guidance, psychological support, case management support are provided. Studies continue in two centers.
In the studies that started in February 2020, 2 thousand 590 sessions of health-based awareness raising service, 13 sessions of health support / guidance service, thousand 578 sessions of case management service, 27 sessions of individual psychotherapy, 950 sessions of psychological support, 1,705 sessions of protection-based services until September. A total of 8 thousand 306 sessions of service were provided, including awareness raising service, 403 sessions of Covid19-based awareness raising service and 331 sessions of child-friendly space activity.
