Links to other resources for humanitarian and mission workers
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Support for humanitarian workers and missionaries
Humanitarian workers
CHS Alliance. Core Humanitarian Standard Alliance.
Global Aid Worker. Forum for aid workers to ask and answer questions of each other and to exchange resources, information and
support.
Cochrane Evidence Aid Project. Reviews research evidence on aid-related matters such as resources for earthquakes, flooding, sanitation and
PTSD
Comhlamh. For aid workers who have returned to Ireland, includes information about a free ‘coming home weekend’, careers tuition, referral to counsellors, and other
support.
Mission workers
Member care and human resources services listed by Global Connections.
Member Care Radio. Podcasts and printed material related to the care of mission
workers.
Oscar. Information, advice and resources about mission work
overseas.
Mobile Member Care Team. Includes handouts on trauma and, under ‘Communiqué’, resources on crisis care, transition, cross-cultural workers, TCKs, couples, conflict resolution, and other topics. Primarily for missionaries but also relevant for
others.
Syzygy. Resources, debriefing, practical help and more links for mission personnel, especially those who ‘don’t fit into
boxes’.
Global Member Care. Resources for mission workers
worldwide.
Global Member Care Network Facebook group. With over 5000 members, an excellent place to ask about resources.
Thrive. Empowering Global Women.
Member Care Associates. Supportive resources for workers and sending groups within the mission/humanitarian
sectors. Look under ‘Organizational resources’ and then ‘Global member care resources list’ to search for member care resources in different parts of the
world.
Global Connections. A website primarily for Christian organisations, this contains many papers relevant to overseas aid work, including a Code of best practice in short-term
mission.
Barnabas International. Information about re-entry seminars for TCKs, debriefing, free retreats, and encouragement letters for missionaries, available in Spanish, Hindi, Russian and
Ukrainian.
Missionary Care: Resources for mission and mental health. Offers free e-books, including What missionaries ought to know and Coming “home”: The re-entry transition, as well as books on TCKs and
adolescence.
Member Care Europe. Resource to the European missions community - linking member care professionals with places, ministries and
resources.
Therapy for the Majority World. Promoting the importance of psychology, counselling, psychotherapy, psychiatry, coaching and psychosocial approaches in Christian mission.
Jamie the Very Worst Missionary. On negotiating the relation between faith and toxic mission.
General support for expatriates
Expat Exchange. Help for expats worldwide.
Escape Artist: Live, work, travel, invest and retire abroad.
Transition Dynamics. A consultation service to the international expatriate community.
Expat Expert. Everything you need to move abroad successfully - by Robin Pascoe, prolific author on expatriate life.
The Resilient Expat. Blog not to be confused with our site.
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Support for families of humanitarian and mission workers
Expatriate families
Family Matters. Headington Institute's online module on self-care for family members humanitarian workers.
Families in Global Transition. Useful resources related to children and
families.
Familiegladje. Resources in Swedish and English for helping third culture kids, based on ideas from family therapy and the author's experience.
Parenting a third culture kid.
A life overseas.
Third culture kids
Third culture kids are people who grow up in a different culture to their parents owing to their parents' job.
Third Culture Kid Life
Interaction International
TCK World. "The Official Home of Third Culture Kids".
Cross-cultural Kids - website of Ruth van Reken, author of The Third Culture Kid experience and prolific writer on third culture and cross-cultural kids.
Overseas Brats
Welcome to my life - A short TCK documentary
Families of military personnel
National Military Family Association.
Children of missionaries
OSCAR. Information for children of missionaries
MK Planet Facebook page
Mukappa. A fraternal association for MKs.
See also sites for Third Culture Kids
General advice for parents
Triple P Positive Parenting Program. Evidence-based parenting skills course for parents of children of all ages. Available online or in various other formats.
Care for the Family. UK-based resource for parents advising about children and teenagers' problems.
American Association of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry's Facts for Families. Advice for families on children and teenagers' mental health problems.
Family lives. Online evidenced-based course for helping parents manage difficult behaviour among children aged 3-8.
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Stress and well-being
Specific to humanitarian or mission workers
Mental Health Resources for
Cross Cultural Workers. Includes free e-books on cross-cultural
issues.
Antares Foundation. Stress briefings for humanitarian and development workers.
Headington Institute. Very useful papers on aspects connected to stress and trauma among aid workers. This includes online training modules which can be downloaded at no cost. These cover a range of subjects including traumatic stress; travel and re-entry stress; supporting national staff, and vicarious trauma. Some of these are available in Arabic, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish as well as
English.
See also General websites for mission and humanitarian workers.
General stress and well-being resources
No Panic. Self-help advice and treatment for people with anxiety disorders, based on cognitive behaviour therapy.
Wellbeing Glasgow. An excellent website with information about depression, stress and related problems. This includes assessments; self-help materials; relevant articles, and interviews with leaders from different faith communities about issues related to mental health. Includes some information in Polish and
Slovak.
Mood Gym. Online cognitive behaviour therapy for depression and
anxiety
NHS self-help for stress, depression, and
anxiety.
Feeling Good. The website of David Burns, author of one of the best self-help programs for depression.
Anorexia & Bulimia Care. Christian self-help for people with eating
disorders.
Drug and Alcohol Abuse for Managers and Employees. Commercial online training course.
Rehab Center. Free resources on mental health and addiction.
The Adrenal Fatigue Solution. Using prayer to reduce stress.
How to deal with stress. A short video introduction to dealing with stress.
Sleepwell. Help with better sleep.
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Help after disasters and trauma
Hostage UK. Help in cases involving
kidnapping.
Trauma Information Pages. Useful trauma information, including principles for working with traumatised children. Handouts available in English and
Spanish.
Crisis management training powerpoints. Downloadable powerpoints on crisis management, with reviews.
The Peace Corps, including a crisis management handbook and workbook, and a rape response
workbook.
Cruse. For bereavement care and
information.
Safeguarding
31:8: Guidance on safeguadring for churches and Christian organisations on safeguarding children, mainly from a UK statutory perspective.
The Child Safety and Protection Network, based in the USA and specialising in advice to missions on safeguarding children, mainly from a North American
perspective
Viva Network. Networks organisations worldwide working with children at risk, and provides some training on safeguarding in the majority world.
Global Connections Guidelines for developing a Safeguarding Children Policy. for UK based organisations or UK churches sending staff or volunteers
overseas.
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Websites which provide useful information in languages other than English
Embrace Multicultural Mental Health. Multicultural mental health website. Includes factsheets on depression, anxiety disorders and other difficulties in over 20 languages. Has links to other multicultural
resources.
Headington Institute. Includes free online training modules covering a range of subjects including trauma and travel stress. Some are available in Arabic, French, Portuguese, Spanish and
Russian.
Wellbeing Glasgow. Information about depression, stress and related problems, as well as interviews with leaders from different faith communities about issues related to mental health. Includes some information in Polish and Slovak. Urdu translations are also planned.
International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Search for ‘Managing stress in the field’, in Spanish or French.
Trauma Information Pages. Trauma information, including principles for working with traumatised children. Handouts in
Spanish.
Arabic Member Care Projects.
Book chapters on debriefing and other topics, available in Arabic. Primarily for those involved with Christian work
overseas.
Community Stress Prevention Center. Israeli organisation founded by influential psychotrauma specialist. Many useful materials in
Hebrew.
Familiegladje. Resources in Swedish and English for helping third culture kids, based on ideas from family therapy and the author's experience.
Mobile Member Care Team has
French handouts on debriefing, trauma, helping children, and teams.
Famille je t'aime.
French resources for helping families.
Barnabas International.
Information about debriefing, free retreats, seminars for children, and encouragement letters for missionaries, available in Spanish, Hindi, Russian and
Ukrainian.
American Association of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Facts for Families: advice for families on children and teenagers' mental health problems. Also available in Spanish and Chinese.
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