HEALTH TECH WITHOUT BORDERS
AIMS
HTWB Mental Health programs aim to help healthcare providers build resilience, decrease professional burnout, and reduce the prevalence of mental health issues.
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To create a safe therapeutic environment that provides healthcare professionals with the opportunity to process their own experiences.
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To support healthcare professionals to maintain a mental balance, prevent secondary trauma, and strengthen resilience and professional sustainability.
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To provide consistent emotional recovery in the setting of ongoing personal stress.
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Facilitation of timely, adequate, and context-specific knowledge support and transfer related to mental health, focusing on disaster response.
PROGRAMS
HELPING HEALERS HEAL OR
3H PEER SUPPORT PRAGRAM FOR UKRAINE
3H program provides a safe virtual environment for psychological support and emotional recovery for Ukrainian psychologists and healthcare professionals.
This environment helps to share, and process lived experiences, develop strategies and skills for sustainability and strengthen resilience.
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MENTAL HEALTH
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Healthcare professionals face many challenges when delivering services to adults and children facing a disaster.
Burnout, moral distress, PTSD, depression, anxiety, and secondary trauma are some of them.
HTWB continuously works with global experts on high-quality resources tailored to mental health professionals' contexts and specific needs.
STUDENT WELL-BEING
SUPPORT INITIATIVE
HTWB supports medical students dealing with the same stressors as healthcare professionals (HCPs) and who face additional challenges related to studying during disasters. Our peer support groups, led by mentors in a secure virtual environment, facilitate the sharing of feelings and the processing of lived experiences. We aim to provide easily accessible and effective practical tools that promote students' well-being and resilience. Additionally, tailored educational activities will enhance their ability to provide optimal patient care and respond effectively to crises.
AIMS
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Support nursing, paramedic, and midwifery students dealing with personal and professional challenges.
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Contextual alignment of the delivery focusing on obstacles to safe healthcare delivery and mental health balance.
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Provide guidance, practical tools, and interventions during times of crisis and dilemmas of safety and professional duty.
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Offer targeted and tailored educational support in selected mental health and content-related subjects.
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Ensure continuous emotional recovery during periods of sustained personal and professional stress.
HTWB aims to support medical students exposed to the same stressors as healthcare professionals (HCPs) and who face additional challenges related to studying during disasters. To effectively fulfill future professionals' obligations, they must receive mental and educational support.
Students' Well-being Support Groups
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These are peer support groups created for young Ukrainian healthcare professionals (HCPs) without specific mental health concerns. Mentors lead small groups in a secure virtual environment, facilitating the sharing of feelings and the processing of lived experiences. Our aim is to provide easily accessible and effective practical tools that support students' well-being and resilience. Additionally, tailored educational activities will enhance the ability to provide optimal patient care and effectively respond to crises.
