Rain Barrel Offers Psychosocial “First Aid” Program for Families of Immigrants, Refugees and Practitioners
Migration to another country is stressful in the best of times. But in the current political climate in the United States, being an immigrant or refugee can be traumatic, particularly if one’s legal status, or that of a family member, is an issue. Possible deportation and family separation… xenophobia and racism… loss of support networks… increased economic hardship and prolonged uncertainty… all contribute to toxic stress, with potentially devastating impact on cognitive thinking, risk assessment and family relationships. Traditional coping mechanisms rooted in culture and accustomed hardship often kick in, providing a measure of protection and triggering spirited resistance. For many people, however, fear, depression, anxiety, confusion and anger may result. Regressive behaviors often occur in children of all ages.
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Celebrating Women on International Women’s Day
This is a very special day — not only because it is International Women’s Day, celebrated each year on March 8th, but because courageous and visionary women in over 50 countries are holding demonstrations, strikes and creative actions of all kinds to demand justice. Justice not only for all women, but social and economic and racial justice for all people, and for the survival of the planet.
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Rolling Thunder of Solidarity Heard Round the World: Free Baquer Namazi
Yesterday’s social media blitz by UNICEF retirees around the world demanding the freedom of our friend and former colleague Baquer Namazi — jailed in Tehran for just over a year — was a resounding success.
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Anatomy of a Consultancy: Reversing Moldova’s Decline in Immunization
Paula Claycomb and Tess Stuart, two of our top consultants in Behavior and Social Change Communication, recently completed the second phase of their consultancy with Moldova and filed this report (for a description of what Rain Barrel offers, go to our service category page). We believe our audience will be interested in their brief summary of the process around strengthening Moldova’s flagging immunization programs. It is a continuation of the November 2016 note that we posted in The Flow on the first phase of Rain Barrel’s support to the government and UNICEF to increase demand for immunization.
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Cartoon Network Steps Up its Zika Campaign with Rain Barrel Assistance
Rain Barrel is pleased that Cartoon Network Latin America, together with its campaign partners PAHO/WHO and UNICEF, are continuing to reach out to young people to help control the spread of the Zika virus. Please see the press release below that describes the new phase of the Zika campaign. We are proud of our role in facilitating these partnerships and helping to develop the associated public service announcements under the auspices of The Cartoon Movement, CNLA’s pro-social program.
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New UNESCO report: Bullies target physical appearance, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation
We are proud to see that this new global report on school violence cites the Cartoon Network campaign that Rain Barrel has been supporting since 2011 (see page 41). An estimated 246 million children and adolescents around the world experience some form of bullying every year. Hats off to UNESCO and the Institute on School Violence and Prevention at Ewha Womans University in South Korea for publishing the study.
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