This is a development of the table in the document I posted last time. Is not complete yet but given the haste with volunteers Psychological Support Network
in its efforts to assist in temporary shelters now in Caracas, I put it available to stakeholders in form current. I will be adding new sections in the coming days. Hierarchical organization of tasks Organization shelter management areas: water, food, clothing, trash, other tables. Venezuela official rules exist for the choice of sites that can be shelters ( http://el-nacional.com/www/site/p_contenido.php?q=nodo/170247 ) and there are good summaries international standards on how they should be organized spatially: here and
here.
Activities to organize committees or tables Make
organizational meeting with managers of the hostel (for example, military bodies, the Foundation Mission Negra Hipolita (FFMNH), Committee for Protection and Social Equality (COPISA), Community Councils (CC), Francisco Miranda Front (FFM) , Civil Protection, the Red Cross and / or firefighters.) will not all managers attend the meeting, most likely will receive a single person in charge. It is important that you do not arrive as experts, but as volunteers with an opportunity to contribute something to the current approved process that are taking place. Volunteers have an initial role of listening. The format developed by Euclid Sanchez and Esther Wiesenfeld would be very useful to structure the questions in this first meeting.
is important to ask what organizational tasks are currently running. Is counter-productive to change or criticize in the beginning what is running, you have to change can be negotiated later between all involved. can also ask about who among the victims have contributed to the life and organization of shelter in these early days. These names may be contacts with natural leaders for organization to follow. Once you have a map of the organization that exists in the hostel, you can consider other issues such as social and institutional organization (education, for example). This emergency is different from that of 1999 and although it has killed, wounded and missing, the scale of the tragedy is different. However, it is important to find out about these cases when family members are looking lost.
The social organization of the victims at the shelter is important: how split families (single rooms, sheets hanging from the ceiling, etc.)? Some basic health and eliminating waste and laundry activities must also be considered from the beginning: Are laundry Hand washing or there? Where do you hang your clothes? Are the toilets clean enough?
After an initial assessment of the shelter with information obtained from the authorities to look for residents who have contributed far more. These are likely to be the natural leaders of the installation. It is a delicate step because you do not want to promote disagreements between the authorities and residents. For now we must ask about the initial organization, your suggestions for improvements and their willingness and ability to initiate collaboration with probation officers.
communication systems in shelters
should be asked what are the means of communication and exchange between different shelters. If you have open information channels to exchange information on workable solutions, and help people seeking relatives and friends and in general creating databases that can be useful.
must also provide the possibility of rebuilding their lives protected. Some will have to call hospitals, neighbors who may have harbored as children and elderly relatives, former employers and new sources of employment. For this you have to install public phones and easy access to prepaid cellular cards.
Medical considerations and personal care
Vaccines, treating people with particular health problems
, first aid. We must ensure everyone is properly vaccinated and have been initially examined by a doctor. You have to detect chronic diseases that require medications or special diets, and acute illnesses as influenza and pneumonia. Also you should take wounds and burns. Psychologists can not care for these patients but they can facilitate their contact with the right professionals to each individual situation.
Hygiene: In this area there is much to non-medical volunteers can achieve and there are several dimensions in which to work. Are important el manejo de desperdicios, consideraciones sobre dieta y educación alimenticia, limpieza física del albergue, limpieza personal, y acceso y uso de la lavandería. En una primera instancia es necesario averiguar los mecanismos que ya están funcionando y anotar lo que hace falta conseguir e instalar. Es importante averiguar lo que se ha hecho antes de la llegada de los voluntarios, y tan pronto posible facilitar la organización de mesas de trabajo o comités para atender a estas áreas:
1)
El manejo de desperdicios
implica recipientes para recoger la basura dentro de la instalación (por ejemplo en el comedor, los baños y los pasillos) y estos tienen que vaciarse, a veces más de una vez al day, and the contents must be placed in larger containers offsite. It is necessary to protect them from rats and other pests, with lids or other appropriate mechanisms. It is necessary for residents to organize themselves into committees to accomplish this.
2) First aid: You may have a full-time physician in charge, but more likely is that there is a box with something to disinfect wounds, cotton and adhesive. There must be something to heal a minor burn. And you must have on hand (written by the box) a telephone number to call an ambulance if necessary.
3) Diet: The ideal would be with a nutritionist but is unlikely to have one. You can contact the National Institute of Nutrition
or Child Care Center Nutrition Antímano (CANI - Telfs. (58 +212) 472.47.57 / 472.88.64 / 472.70.01 / 472.53.73, Fax. (58 +212) 471.43.47, Hours: 7:00 am to 12:00 pm / 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm). It is necessary that between managers and residents to negotiate among themselves what foods can be offered considering: special diets (eg diabetic), a swing between normal nutritional sources, and the cost and accessibility of food. 4)
Hostel Clean: It is the exclusive task of the residents, and it is all internal and external space other than bedrooms or personal sites. Must form teams with schedules to be placed in writing in a conspicuous place. The responsibilities to be taken seriously. 5)
Food preparation and cleanup after
: Some hostels this task will be in charge of designated personnel (such as military installations), individual residents chosen to cook and clean and special volunteers. But other residents will be organized into groups to meet these responsibilities. Cleaning the kitchen and the quality and freshness of ingredients is paramount, but it does happen that the inputs from donations and there is no way to choose them. So will canned goods and other supplies that are not ideal. 6)
personal cleansing: It is important to require everyone to comply with a regimen of personal care because in high concentration of people can begin to spread unpleasant conditions such as lice and scabies. Should be given soap and shampoo to those who can not buy. Schooling There are two basic ways to consider the school: the ability to have children at the school in the appropriate grade as rich and continuing education. school
Assistance: It is not easy in the environment of the shelters. Most children are living away from their regular schools and find alternative educational institutions is often difficult. Whether to continue in their schools will always need at least one transportation system safe and appropriate for their ages. It is inappropriate to send them alone in the subway or public buses. The hostel will have to provide a vehicle for this. For those who are new schools have to deal with the problem of insecurity of children (both physically and emotionally) and even the rejection of students who are studying there. Education
enriched
: It will be necessary to add new dimensions to traditional education. The boys are going to have to face the loss of their houses and things and distance from old friends. Small groups of play, drawing and discussion (depending on age of children) can be means to contribute to this.
is also necessary to recognize that even the best of cases, shelters are stressful. Children do not have the normal supervision of parents and neighbors, acquaintances and form small bands that run the facilities. These bands will provide security, companionship and a sense of primary identification and should not be eliminated, but at the same time on them tumors will develop aggressive forms of xenophobic and interact with children from other bands. This is an issue that facilitators need to confront and deal with boys. Personally I saw gangs of children under five years traveling freely around the lodge in Antímano few years ago. Aggressive levels were of concern. is important to take the task of educating mothers and fathers in certain aspects of child care and discipline. Many have had shortcomings in this area since before its emergence, and shelter conditions of coexistence issues and expectations they have for their children will intensify.
will be necessary to organize events Hostel and guided activities such as painting, organized games (such as rounds with their songs), days of painting and collages, etc. You can organize a choir and a concert of four (if there is how to get them). Games have rules of interaction and memorization are ideal (see: this link
). But remember that the boys are very anxious now, and few have also participated in this activity before. I have seen children who can not paint with chalk on the floor or use scissors to cut out pictures from magazines. Will want to carry the games, weaving, painting, modeling clay to their rooms. We must develop and discuss the rules.
Adult Education: Adults are also very motivated to participate in workshops of all kinds, crafts, reading circles etc. -Anything to break the tedium.
living standards and
At first we must find out what the rules are working, those who impose them and punish offenders. The government is in the process of developing common standards
all shelters, "
Minister of Interior and Justice, Tarek El Aissami, announced Monday night that the national government implemented a protocol of living in the more than 733 shelters for those affected by rains enabled the state to ensure order and security in the same
. " Given these universal standards that must be taken into account when trying to negotiate new rules of coexistence. ideal time would achieve about a system of co-participation between officers and residents. In the end this is the best way to get a workable system of rules and regulations. Rules should always include: a) the times to come and go, b) the schedule for the use of radios, TVs and other audio players, c) the maintenance (cleaning of shared spaces such as bathrooms, dining, etc.). and the consequences for not complying with these obligations, d) the prohibition of alcohol, drugs, weapons of any kind, e) respect for property, the prohibition of theft and the consequences for not complying with these standards.
However it is important to always remember that residents in shelters are not prisoners and have established lives and obligations outside the shelter. The rules are not onerous.
family problems and
couples living together family and couples always have areas for improvement, and the loss of privacy in the shelters can only worsen these situations. What used to happen within the family to become public affairs. For example, different ideas on how to punish children can affect everyone. It also happens that the special problems of children and adolescents (destructiveness, hyperactivity, inability to concentrate, fighting, sadness, extreme inactivity, apathy) can be interpreted as anti-normative behaviors and not expressions of anguish and grief. In many shelters
parents are separated from the rest of the family. This is necessary when there is no way to locate each family in a private and secure as rooms separated by walls and doors with a private key. When this happens parents are isolated from family affection and also may tend to walk away. It is important to seek ways to ensure the satisfaction of intimacy needs of couples. Another problem has to do with the personal security of individuals and property. When you separate groups of women and children only with sheets, and when men occupy berths, their meager belongings violated. In the case of children and adolescents is a protocol
stop collecting information and protect that originated in Puerto Rico. Mourning
report says a Bolivian
online (, p. 7, paragraph 1) that:
"The affected families in these circumstances, suffer the loss of their homes and belongings that can sometimes represent their total belongings, ... are also affected in their physical health is manifested through the increase in trauma and disease .... But also there has been many demonstrations that affect mental health of the population, including feelings of grief, sadness, anxiety, anger, mental confusion, increased addiction and other risky behaviors (conflict, domestic violence, sexual violence , abuse of mentors). "
The same source informs us that the first reactions to loss may be: emotional crisis, mental numbness or paralysis, acute diffuse anxiety and confusion. then appear: sadness, grief, demonstrations somatic, irritability and problems in personal relationships and work.
There are several ways to confront these situations. One is to disseminate information on how these reactions to those affected and their families to recognize and attribute the event of disaster rather than personal defects.
Another is to provide individual psychotherapy, which usually is difficult in the conditions mass temporary housing. Finally can support groups led by a psychologist.
Workshops and support groups Workshops are meetings between certain classes of people who want to achieve something whole. In the case of the hostels there are many objectives that can be achieved in this way, even in low light conditions privacy found in them. They are allowed to drive in hallways, dining room or other shared spaces. Among the psychological goals appropriate in these circumstances include:
1. Developing a life plan for after shelter: In another installment elaborate design for this workshop.
2. Considerations of the remaining resources to families: In another installment elaborate design for this workshop.
3. Coexistence: In another installment elaborate design for this workshop.
4. Viable avenues of help from the government and other organizations (NGOs): This workshop will be mainly informative. Among the government entities that can help those affected can include:
a)
Hipolita Black Mission, Mission Habitat, PDVSA, the Copisa,
b) legal clinics
of the UCV, UCAB and some municipalities , c)
various groups associated with churches,
d)
AA (tel: 632.8117)
Alanon (tel: 782.7026) and Narcotics Anonymous
,
e) for nutrition problems: The Center Child Care Nutrition Antímano (Canio, Telfs. (58 +212) 472.47.57 / 472.88.64 / 472.70.01 / 472.53.73, Fax. (58 +212) 471.43.47) f)
for children: UNICEF and the Institute for Integral Development of the Child (INVEDIN that serves children and adolescents with developmental problems. Autism, Social Skills, ( Guaicaipuro end street, across the street Capure, Fifth INVEDIN, El Marqués. - Caracas - Gran Caracas - Venezuela, Telephone (s): +58 (212) 2421147 / (212) 2421798 / Fax: (212) 2432582). Support for psychological problems
Identification of persons with severe psychological problems and psychiatric disorders (psychosis, bipolar syndrome, Clinical depression etc.) Recreation and Sports:
Children's activities (games run, clowns, Hostel outings to parks, museums, etc..) Sports (nearby shell exits, search for the equipment needed as clothing, balls, bats, etc.) Team building and skills
Note no connection to the above:
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request for Wikileaks. It's about the right of expression, but in large scale.
We picked up P ... 
looking inside and waiting to leave their masters, when tired, the employee returned and sat beside her, was very sad to see him well and we picked him up, we now seek a family wanting to Paco and seek with urgency because the foster home where you can have only found a few days. Is very dependent dog, just wants to be around people and always goes behind host its owner, needs very little to be happy. He likes to sleep on the sofa in the house, does not like being around other dogs, only people, it is ideal to be with children and the elderly. We do not want to go to the kennel. Please help with Paco. Mariad_c_t@hotmail.com 
Where is the progress of clothing and materials? 
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References 
Alejandra Villalobos (2009). Crisis Intervention in Disasters: A Statement of first and second instance. Medical Journal of Costa Rica and Central LXVI (578) 5-13. Available online at the website: http://www.binasss.sa.cr/revistas/rmcc/587/art1.pdf 
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