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Saving and improving lives in the world’s toughest places.Saving and improving lives in the world’s toughest places.
Bussma ProgramStrengthening Resilience to Keep
Adolescents Safe, Learning and ValuedPorticus Conference
7 April 2016
Maryam Zohny, Youth Program Manager
Ali Anan, Program Coordinator
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Saving and improving lives in the world’s toughest places.
ABOUT BUSSMA
• UNICEF-led No Lost Generation Campaign
• Regional program• 4 centers in Lebanon• Two years operating• Canadian Funding,
DFATD
Strengthening Resilience to Keep Adolescents Safe, Learning and Valued
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Saving and improving lives in the world’s toughest places.
BUSSMA’S ADVANCING ADOLESCENTS APPROACH
• Multidisciplinary and integrated program;
• Vulnerable youth, 12-19 years old;• Youth selection, vulnerability
score;• Psychosocial-support (PSS) via
Profound Stress & Attunement (PSA) model;
• Curricula designed using layered approach and delivered through PSA model.
Strengthening Resilience to Keep Adolescents Safe, Learning and Valued
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Saving and improving lives in the world’s toughest places.
BUSSMA’S ADVANCING ADOLESCENTS APPROACHStrengthening Resilience to Keep Adolescents Safe, Learning and Valued
UNDERSTANDING PROFOUND STRESS
• High levels of stress for an extended period of time;
• Limbic system (emotional part of brain) overload;
• Limbic system produces stress hormone called cortisol.
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Saving and improving lives in the world’s toughest places.
BUSSMA’S ADVANCING ADOLESCENTS APPROACHStrengthening Resilience to Keep Adolescents Safe, Learning and Valued
EFFECTS OF PROFOUND STRESS
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Saving and improving lives in the world’s toughest places.
BUSSMA’S ADVANCING ADOLESCENTS APPROACH
• Profound stress is the lens that enables us to identify indicators and respond to learning styles;
• Help young people to manage their own behavior;
• Referral process internally & externally;
• Activities are tools used to apply PSS through the PSA model.
Strengthening Resilience to Keep Adolescents Safe, Learning and Valued
APPLYING PROFOUND STRESS & ATTUNEMENT (PSA) MODEL TO YOUTH PROGRAMMING
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Saving and improving lives in the world’s toughest places.
BUSSMA’S ADVANCING ADOLESCENTS APPROACHStrengthening Resilience to Keep Adolescents Safe, Learning and Valued
PROGRAM DESIGN
7. Discovering
together
8. Name & Describe
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Saving and improving lives in the world’s toughest places.
BUSSMA EDUCATIONAL APPROACHStrengthening Resilience to Keep Adolescents Safe, Learning and Valued
• Layering allows people with profound stress to interpret information through utilizing senses (visual, kinesthetic, audio);
• incorporates association as a tool to link memory to learning through real life experiences;
• Attunement allows people to become sensitized to their own emotional awareness, as well as others which increases empathy;
• (Re)attachment to self, family, and community;• Experiential, Collaborative, and Active learning;
• Thematic life-skills
LAYERING & ATTUNEMENT
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Saving and improving lives in the world’s toughest places.
Strengthening Resilience to Keep Adolescents Safe, Learning and Valued
TRACKS
• 1: Economic resiliency courses for the home & future allow youth to develop skills to support their families in conserving money and can be utilized for themselves and/or family/community members;
• 2: Recreational Courses that involve dance, sports, handcrafts, art, and/or other physical activities;
• 3: Social Cohesion Community Events for community members to feel a sense of belonging and linked to other members in their respective neighborhoods;
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Saving and improving lives in the world’s toughest places.
Strengthening Resilience to Keep Adolescents Safe, Learning and Valued
• 4: Advocacy projects allow youth to build social capital by expanding networks; have platform to amplify voices on local issues; feel empowered by becoming agents of change; apply leadership through youth councils;
• 5: Goal-setting allows for youth to effectively navigate their path to adulthood by establishing pragmatic short and long-term goals and plans to achieve them through mentoring from coaches;
• 6: Awareness sessions for youth, caregivers/parents, and community members builds community awareness and understanding of PSS and protection issues.
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Saving and improving lives in the world’s toughest places.
BUSSMA RESULTSStrengthening Resilience to Keep Adolescents Safe, Learning and Valued
• 3695 Young people enrolled
• 4798 Persons increased awareness on child protection & PSS through 236 awareness sessions;
• Approximately 30,000 persons impacted from over 203 advocacy projects on non-violence & social cohesion community events;
• Levels of psychosocial well-being, trust, social capital, and social cohesion increased as per SDQ results and other tools;
• A Yale University research project investigating the biological change that occurs through the NLG model proved hypothesis that psychosocial wellbeing improved by reducing cortisol (stress hormone)
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Saving and improving lives in the world’s toughest places.
Strengthening Resilience to Keep Adolescents Safe, Learning and Valued
CONTACTMaryam Zohny
Youth Program [email protected]