Psychosocial Support and Children's Rights Resource Center

PST CRRC’s disaster response program is linked with the Regional Emergency Psychosocial Support Network (REPSN) a network of organizations of emergency psychosocial caregivers in East, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Region. Like the REPSN, PST CRRC aims to develop the capacities of individuals and organizations to provide psychosocial response in emergency situations.

Projects and Responses to Emergencies

Child Focused DRR in World Vision ADPs

Aside from developing the capacities of people who respond to emergencies, we also enable people to face disasters through a psychosocial approach that recognizes and strengthens the resilience and capacities of adults and children in communities. We also give disaster preparedness and management trainings particularly in disaster prone areas to prepare people in the eventuality of an emergency.

Our disaster response program has brought us to Dingalan, Quezon, Philippines which was inundated by flashfloods that killed thousands of residents from the area; to St Bernard, Guinsaugon, Southern Leyte, Philippines a town that was buried by a massive rockslide brought on by heavy rains; and to Albay Province, Philippines which was whipped by a super typhoon that killed and displaced thousands of residents.

Our work has also brought us to Sri Lanka and Thailand to extend psychosocial support to the Asian tsunami survivors. We also trained Thai and Sri Lankan service providers in giving psychosocial assistance to survivors and in enlisting children’s participation in disaster response.