presentation I delivered with DRRM practitioners and ICP staff of Dipolog City after the Covid pandemic

1. RAMBELLE C FLORES

2. Mindfulness Exercise

5. *humane, supportive response designed to
reduce distress caused by traumatic events in
order to foster adaptive functioning and coping
THEMES:
1. Providing practical care and support
2. Helping people to address basic needs
3. Listening to people, but not pressuring
them to talk

6. THEMES (cont):
4. Comforting people and helping them to feel
calm
5. Helping people connect to information,
services and social support
6. Protecting people from further harm

7.  First Aid
 Immediate aftermath of disasters and
terrorism

8.  Distressed people who have been recently
exposed to a serious crisis event
 Both children and adults
 However, not everyone need or want PFA
 But, make yourself easily available to those
who may want support

9.  Evac centers
 Shelters and care facilities
 Staging Areas
 Respite centers for 1st responders
 EOCs and crisis hotlines
 Feeding locations
 Homes
 Businesses
 Other community settings

10.  Active Listening
 Stay Close
 Accept Feelings
 Provide general care and practical help

11.  Look
 Listen
 Link

12.  Contact & Engagement
-respond to contacts or initiate contacts in a non-
intrusive, compassionate & helpful manner
 Safety & Comfort
-enhance immediate and ongoing safety and provide
physical & emotional comfort
 Stabilization
-calm & orient emotionally overwhelmed survivors
 Information Gathering
-identify immediate needs and concerns, gather
additional information and tailor PFA interventions

13.  Practical assistance
-offer practical help in addressing immediate
needs and concerns
 Connection with social supports
-reduce distress by helping structure opportunities
 Information on coping support
-provide information that may help them in
dealing the event and its aftermath
 Linkage with collaborative services
-link with needed services and inform them about
available services they might need in the future

14.  Respect safety, dignity and rights
 adapt what you do to take account of the
person’s culture
 Be aware of the emergency response
measures
 Look after yourself

15.  Making connections
 It’s OK to talk about feelings
 It’s OK to ask for help
 Accept change
 Stare with yourself

16.  Focus on solutions
 Be positive.
 Take care of yourself
 Laugh
 Self-discovery

17. Fides. Spes. Caritas
Keep the faith. Be hopeful. Love always.
Open your heart. Be kind.

18.  PGCA
 PAP Katatagan
 PFA Modules
 Mental Health Lecture Notes from speakers

19. May I be safe. May I be healthy.
May I love and feel loved.
May YOU be safe. May YOU be
healthy. May YOU love and feel
loved.
May WE be safe. May WE be
healthy. May WE love and be loved.

20. Thank you for
this opportunity
to be with you
all…
GOD BLESS US.