Since 2001, our team has worked with 100+ aid organizations to support those assisting victims of war, political violence, disease, and natural disasters.
Those committed to a career in aid work are motivated by a desire to help others and make the world a better place. Long-term stressors and acute trauma in the field pose serious threats to the sustainability of their careers and to the well-being of people they care for.
Without skilled intervention and training, an aid worker’s ability to serve will almost always be impeded by critical incidents, compassion fatigue, and an underlying lack of emotional and physical resilience. Among the 570,000 aid workers deployed around the world today, nearly 40% struggle with anxiety, depression, addiction, or post-traumatic stress as a result of their service.
Each year we provide practical resilience training for thousands of personnel working in a wide range of aid settings. We are here to ensure that humanitarians can keep tackling the world’s problems as long as they are needed.
Emergency responders are among the first to arrive and last to leave the scene of a natural disaster, terrorist incident, or civic emergency. They bandage wounds, stabilize buildings, and rescue survivors, risking their health and safety to assist victims.
They are some of the most skilled and least supported responders at work today. Behind the scenes of every emergency, there is an urgent need for mental health care for responders. They witness and experience things no human brain is designed to handle.
By creating programming specifically for emergency response personnel, we target the issues most likely to undermine their well-being, including post-traumatic stress symptoms and acute triggers.
The service of community caregivers makes their communities strong. Spread over many industries, community responders—especially healthcare and social services providers, and —have a common desire to invest in their local communities.
Just like their global aid and disaster relief counterparts, community responders face the challenge of maintaining their resilience in spite of chronic stressors. When ER staff continue to work overtime without real rest, or homeless care staff take on the challenge of overwhelming social problems while also caring for the people in front of them, they run the risk of burning out. Their families, and our communities, suffer when that happens.
We recognize the humanitarian impulse is alive in our local communities, and we use our unique skill set to keep them strong.
We offer a custom set of tools and training that integrate the mind, body, and spirit to strengthen the well-being and effectiveness of global responders.
Our commitment has always been to humanitarians, those in both long term and emergency deployments. Through our work we have discovered that the humanitarian impulse moves people to serve not only in far away places, but also in our own backyard.
