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Social context, relationality, inequality, social justice, power and complexity are key characteristics themes of intersectionality I take into cognizant when designing interventions. Intersectionality is an analytical and evaluation tool for understanding society's complexities like gender, sexuality issues, feminism, human rights, identity politics, immigration, diversity or neoliberalism, which are generally shaped by many factors in diverse and mutually influencing ways (i.e., power with its four interconnecting domain: interpersonal, cultural, disciplinary and structural complexities-Hill-Collins and Bilge, 2017).
If you are working with or assisting survivors of gender-based violence,
sexual violence or involved in training of helpers working directly with
survivors, this seminar is for you. Access
to mental health services are critical aspects of the recovery for rape
survivors. It has however emerged that access to psychologists, psychiatrists
and other health professionals is limited or absent in conflict, disaster or
emergency situations. For rural or hard-to-reach communities it is a
double jeopardy given the wide illiteracy and knowledge-gap is wide. They face
marginization in accessing information to health, personal , national matters and
other is disseminated by mainstream in the lingua franca.
HHRI is a reliable data base for information dealing
with mental health, enabling health professionals and others working with
people exposed to human rights violations in disaster, war and conflict areas
access additional resources.
Pidgin and creoles have historically existed with various lingua
franca. For example, Nigerian Pidgin have its roots in contacts between
multilingual coastal communities, Portuguese merchants, the Dutch and the
English. Pidgin is "a reduced language that results from extended contact
between groups of people with no language in common; it evolves when they need
some means of verbal communication, perhaps for trade"...Holmes,1989.
The Event
The Event
This1st Pidgin English seminar will be held online on Monday 16th, December
2019. Between 5-7 PM Nigerian time. Registration Form and Flyer is
accessible via the links.
What makes this seminar different from others?
- This is the first Nigerian pidgin English seminar on Sexual Gender Based Violence (GBV) (others Arabic, Russian, Spanish)
- The seminar focuses on improving skills in providing psychological support for GBV, especially sexual trauma survivors
- Helpers supporting survivors of GBV and sexual trauma in times of disasters, conflicts and emergency situations, and in places where access to health professionals, psychologist or psychiatrist expertise is limited.
- Helpers training other helpers/groups of helpers who need self-study materials
- A team of mental health experts from with many years of clinical, field and research experiences developed effective tools to empower helpers of GBV survivors
- This seminar is made possible by HHRI through collaborations by Professor Nora Sveaass, Elisabeth Landgal and Joyce Ojokojo (my humble self). We plan to host a 3-day follow-up training with certificate award in the nearest future.
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