Building on the first 3-year project targeting victims of gender-based violence in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the second follow-up project led by the vivo members Anselm Crombach and Amani Chibashimba aims at further reinforcing the local capacities to treat trauma-related mental health disorders.
Since September 2020, 58 counsellors, supervised by vivo trained Congolese supervisors, have offered and accomplished treatments within local communities with 414 patients. Moreover, 14 of the community-based local counselors have accomplished training as supervisors and the vivo team has offered 939 supervision sessions for the local counselors. Overall, the last 4 months show an encouraging start of a very challenging, large-scale implementation of NET and FORNET and evidence of remarkable engagement of the local team.
Building on the first 3-year project targeting victims of gender-based violence in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the second follow-up project led by the vivo members Anselm Crombach and Amani Chibashimba aims at further reinforcing the local capacities to treat trauma-related mental health disorders.
Since September 2020, 58 counsellors, supervised by vivo trained Congolese supervisors, have offered and accomplished treatments within local communities with 414 patients. Moreover, 14 of the community-based local counselors have accomplished training as supervisors and the vivo team has offered 939 supervision sessions for the local counselors. Overall, the last 4 months show an encouraging start of a very challenging, large-scale implementation of NET and FORNET and evidence of remarkable engagement of the local team.
