Who are we?
War Child Netherlands (WCNL) is one of the fundraising members of the War Child Alliance. In addition to its fundraising activities, it offers MHPSS support to children and families with a refugee background. War Child has developed a set of evidence-based interventions. In the Netherlands, War Child implements the following MHPSS interventions:
EASE (Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions): War Child has, led by WHO, developed, piloted and researched EASE, with the aim to train communities and partner organisations to implement quality and timely mental support to youth. EASE is an early treatment intervention for groups of youth (10-15 years old) exposed to armed conflict, displacement, and other forms of adversity. The program is designed to help reduce stress and improve the wellbeing of youth who experience mental health problems.
BeThere: War Child has developed a group intervention for caregivers of children exposed to armed conflict, displacement, and other forms of adversity. The program is designed to help caregivers reduce their own stress and find greater support, so that they feel better emotionally, and have more energy to be the kind of parents they wish to be. The intervention aims to increase knowledge and skills related to parenting, to lower the stress of raising children in difficult conditions.
Purpose of the role
War Child facilitators are responsible for the direct implementation of War Child's interventions with adolescents and caregivers living in refugee shelters and reception centers across the Netherlands. Facilitators work in pairs. They are trained, coached and supervised by War Child's trainers and supervisors. The facilitators will support the scale up of the EASE and Be There interventions in the Netherlands.
Position in the organisation
This position sits in the team of the Netherlands Programmes. Facilitators report to the Lead of the Netherlands Programmes.
What you will do:
1. Implementation of EASE and BeThere projects
- Participate in all required training, supervision meetings and team meetings
- Support project coordinator with preparation and planning of EASE and BeThere projects at shelters or reception centers across the Netherlands, as assigned by the NL Programmes Lead
- Collaborate and coordinate with the project and coordination team in relation to all project activities
- Communicate and inform residents about War Child's MHPSS interventions, EASE and BeThere in consultation with shelter staff, making use of or preparing War Child standard materials
- Mobilize adolescents and caregivers to participate in the EASE and BeThere meetings and any related activities and meetings
- Organize and plan EASE and/or BeThere meetings (logistics, timing etc)
- Plan and carry out intake and pre/post assessments, following protocol, with participating adolescents and caregivers
- Prepare and facilitate EASE and/or BeThere meetings, in line with the manual but adapting to specific needs as appropriate
- Represent War Child NL on location before, during and after the implementation of the EASE and BeThere projects
- Gather input from adolescents and caregivers to check the appropriateness of War Child's interventions
- Suggest cultural and other contextual adaptations in War Child's psychosocial interventions based on input from participants, your own experience during implementation and cultural background
- Make adaptations and translations in the intervention materials upon request.
- Collect relevant quality of care data throughout the implementation of an intervention, i.e. attendance, fidelity and competency and complete the designated reporting forms
- Attend regular supervision and team meetings to reflect, learn and improve practices
- Suggest adaptations and improvements to increase impact, effectiveness and efficiency of War Child's interventions in the Netherlands.