"Freedom Fone allows anyone with a phone to access or contribute information on a specific issue 24 hours a day and seven days a week. It takes advantage of audio and text to address language and literacy barriers when reaching out to marginalised audiences that don't have access to other media. No
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internet access is required by either you or your audience for this. Freedom Fone uses interactive voice menus to deliver information to and record information from a caller. You will be familiar with this kind of menu already: "press 1 to access your account, press 2 to speak to a representative, press 3 to record a message...". We all sometimes have to deal with this kind of system when we dial a number to top up the credit on our mobile phone account, or to talk to a support person, etc. Freedom Fone enables you to design your own interactive menus to: share audio information with your audience; this audio information can take many forms including voice menu (press 1, press 2, etc.), educational dramas, short news items, or even a song; organise a poll to enable your audience to vote on an issue using their phone; collect SMSs from your audience - these might be updates about specific news events, alerts or similar time critical information; get your audience to leave audio messages to share their opinion on a particular topic or make reports in their own language." (Page 4)
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"This compilation has been divided into four chapters. The first chapter briefly explains what a child helpline is, draws attention to the key elements of a child helpline and attempts to answer some of the questions you may have regarding particular activities of a child helpline and about getting
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started and scaling-up. The second chapter outlines the operations of a child helpline. The third chapter provides an overview of the structure of a child helpline and the implications this has. The fourth chapter outlines the suggested processes and steps to help you get prepared to launch or scale-up a child helpline in your country. The annexes at the end of the manual contain draft material from several child helplines. Please feel free to adapt this material to your own specific situation." (Preface)
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"Providing counseling for reporters who have witnessed some of the worst things that can happen to humanity – with no tools to handle the emotional shock – was identified as one of the most imminent and crucial needs for support to Kenyan media practitioners in the aftermath of the disputed Dece
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mber 2007 presidential election. An unprecedented wave of politically motivated violence was triggered when the Electoral Commission of Kenya declared President Mwai Kibaki winner of the presidential election. More than 1,000 Kenyans were killed and over 500,000 displaced. [...]
On this background, IMS decided to engage in a post-election violence trauma counseling project in close cooperation with the Kenya Association of Photographers, Illustrators and Designers (KAPIDE), Kenya Correspondents’ Association (KCA) and Kenya Union of Journalists (KUJ). Under the theme: 'Healing the messenger – Post-election trauma counseling for Kenyan Journalists', trauma counseling was provided for a total of 150 journalists and photographers in five different locations. The sessions were conducted by leading Kenyan psychiatrist and expert in disaster management, Dr. Sobbie Mulindi, and a rapid response team from the Kenyatta National Hospital. This booklet offers insights into the experiences the journalists went through as told by themselves during the counseling sessions. All accounts reproduced in this handbook conceal the identity of the journalists to respect wishes for anonymity and the continued feeling of trauma and sensitivity characterizing the post-election situation in Kenya. The booklet also provides guidance to recognizing and dealing with trauma as elaborated and presented by Dr. Sobbie Mulindi and his team." (Preface)
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"ASTRA SOS Hotline started its operation in 2002. Since then, almost ten thousand calls have been received. So far it has served as the only SOS hotline intended for (potential) victims of traffi cking in persons in the Republic of Serbia; at the time of its setting up it was one of the rare service
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s of the kind in South-East Europe. During the fi rst eight years of work a methodology has been developed, results achieved, some of the dilemmas have not yet been solved and the new ones have appeared. We would like to share our experiences with the expert public. We also nourish hope that our long-term experience in this fi eld, although we are pretty much self-taught, will be useful for those who are planning to establish a similar hotline. We believe that this Manual will also help the ones who have organized other types of SOS telephones (for fighting family violence, violence against children, etc.), because traffi cking in human beings may be a consequence of some other form of violence or may be hidden behind it. Although the Manual is intended for individuals who already have some experience in the anti-traffi cking fi eld, we nevertheless start with a brief defi nition and description of the problem for the sake of those who might be faced with this form of severe human rights violation for the first time. At the very start, principles and methodology of work that had been developed for ten preceding years in the Belgrade women’s NGOs that were engaged in anti-violence activities, particularly the SOS Hotline and Centre for Girls and the Autonomous Women’s Centre were the basis for our work, and we would like to avail ourselves of this opportunity to thank them. ASTRA SOS Hotline has been developing its activities by directly following fi eld actions and trends related to traffi cking of human beings; we have adapted the accepted principles and work methods according to circumstances in this new and totally diff erent scope. Of utmost importance are our contacts with partner organizations in the region and beyond, i.e. meetings where we have exchanged our experiences. Unfortunately, conferences on the SOS hotlines are very rare. This is the reason why we would like to present in this Manual experiences of other SOS telephones, both in Serbia and in South-Eastern Europe, as well as certain tendencies in the member states of the European Union." (Preface)
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"This manual was developed and tested as part of the IOM pandemic preparedness for migrants and host communities project. The manual was designed to assist children, adolescents, adults and families living in migrant and host communities and help them cope during and in the aftermath of a pandemic.
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It is important to understand that, people handle difficult situations differently and not all members of a community will cope in the same way. People will experience a wide range of reactions when exposed to distressful events, ranging from the mild to the severe. Some can be amazingly resilient. When a group of people share a difficult experience, some are able to work through it and move on with their lives, while others require more support. The purpose of this training is to revise and strengthen your counselling skills, skills you may not even be aware you possess, as well as refine your communication skills. We will review the steps we use in the process of counselling and practice them in various situations." (Introduction)
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"This manual is, firstly, about Interviewing (Section Two). This is the art and skill of getting the information you need from someone. Information may be facts – perhaps those needed to register a new client - or you might want to go further, looking perhaps for an understanding of the new contac
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t’s emotional situation. The second half of the manual is about Counselling (Section Three), which is the art and skill of helping someone to make their own good choices. Guidance is a word for a similar process, when people offer informal ideas and solutions to others, as advice concerning the life challenges they are facing. But this manual uses the word counselling. It suggests finding solutions together, rather than one person offering solutions and the other person accepting them." (Page 3)
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"Vor dem Hintergrund, dass immer mehr Menschen das Internet nutzen, hat die Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA) im Jahr 2001 mit www.drugcom.de ein Internetportal zur Drogen- und Suchtprävention etabliert. Vom Sommer 2001 bis zum Jahresende 2006 haben etwa 3000 junge Menschen per
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E-Mail den Rat des Teams von drugcom.de gesucht; mehr als 2000 Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene haben die Chatberatung in Anspruch genommen. Zielgruppe des Internetportals sind drogenaffine Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene im Alter von etwa 15 bis 25 Jahren. Neben einer Vielzahl von Informationen zu drogen- bzw. suchtspezifischen Fragen wird bei diesem Angebot ein frei zugänglicher Chatraum bereitgestellt sowie die Möglichkeit geboten, drogen- und suchtspezifische Fragen bzw. Probleme in einem One-to-One-Chat online mit einer professionellen Beraterin bzw. einem Berater zu besprechen. Mit dem vorliegenden Fachheft werden zum einen die konzeptionellen und empirischen Grundlagen der Onlineberatung von drugcom.de dargestellt. Zum anderen wird beschrieben, wer die Beratungsangebote von drugcom.de nutzt, welche Frage- bzw. Problemstellungen hierbei relevant sind und wie die Beratungskonzeption methodisch umgesetzt wird." (Abstract)
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"Save the Children Sweden has had a Hotline website in place for more than four years, receiving more than 22,000 tips about child pornography on the Web. The importance of such a channel and the importance of international co-operation are spelled out in the following report. Save the Children Swed
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en believe that public hotlines should be run and managed by the police; in any case, the function itself has been proved invaluable. If the same conclusion is reached in other countries, it is important to see that the national police are aware of this and are supported in any way possible." (Preface)
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"Hotlines offer an effective way to provide callers with accurate information, counseling, and referrals to appropriate community-based services or resources. The anonymity of a hotline is a key asset, especially in working with adolescents, because it allows the caller to ask questions that may be
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difficult or awkward to address in a face-to-face context [...] Approaches to using hotlines differ, but in general they aim to: provide accurate and timely information; provide an opportunity for dialogue; give support to callers by listening to them and counseling them when necessary; provide referral information; and identify trends in information requests from the audience. This guide can assist you in starting a hotline or improving and expanding an existing one. It can inform your strategic thinking and planning for a hotline and provide the necessary tools and information in an easy, step-by-step approach to set up your hotline. By sharing our experience and providing examples of hotlines in various countries, we hope to help you decide what will work best in your context and inspire you to create a hotline that will best meet the needs of your audience." (Introduction, page v-vi)
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"Ausgehend von wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen über Aufbau, Gefüge, Grenzen und Möglichkeiten psychosozialer Beratung im Internet wird der Umgang Jugendlicher mit ihren Problemlagen in einer qualitativen Studie analysiert. Die Datenerhebung zur Studie erfolgt im Chat-Room einer psychosozialen Be
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ratungs-Website via qualitativen Online-Interviews. Nichtstandardisierte Online-Interviews – in Form offener Fragestellungen und narrativem Ansatz – stellen einen innovativen und genuinen Pfad der qualitativen Datengewinnung in der Sozialforschung dar und bedürfen somit der genauen Betrachtung und Evaluation des Forschungsdesigns und -erfolgs. Die Ergebnisse der Interviews zeigen auf, wie junge Menschen mit Problemen umgehen und ob und in welchem Maße die psychosoziale Beratung im Internet den Strukturen jugendlichem Problemumgangs entsprechen und die Problemanmeldung und Problembewältigung forcieren und somit ein „Auffangen im Netz“ gewährleisten kann." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"In this book we present the operating methods of Internet Hotlines and argue that they are essential instruments for the limiting of illegal content on the Internet. The Hotline can take on a central role within a self-regulation system involving the state, media supervisory bodies, the Internet in
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dustry and Internet users, not just as a channel of communication but also as a means of evaluating problematic Internet content. This publication discusses various organizational structures and procedures adopted by Hotlines, and outlines minimum required standards that guarantee that Internet Hotlines are recognized as enhancing and supporting law enforcement, and can thereby contribute to the effective combating of problematic Internet contents." (www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de)
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"Bisher fehlte eine zuverlässig recherchierte, allgemein zugängliche und übersichtliche Informationsquelle über die Telefonseelsorge (TS). In über 100 regionalen Zentren ist die TS vertreten. 800.000 Anrufe jährlich und 6.000 Mitarbeitende zeigen an, wie viele Menschen unmittelbar mit TS zu tu
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n haben. In den Beiträgen werden die Arbeitsweise sowie die gesellschaftliche und kirchliche Funktion der TS vorgestellt. Die Beiträge behandeln Entstehung und Selbstverständnis der TS, Funktion und Gestalt des Ehrenamtes, die Organisation auf lokaler und auf Bundesebene. Zwei Beiträge sind den Herausforderungen durch die Revolutionierung der Telefontechnik gewidmet. Nach der Beschreibung komplementärer Dienste (Krisenberatungsstellen) schließen sich Beiträge über den Ort der TS im kirchlich- theologischen und im sozialpsychiatrischen Feld an. Ein Lexikonteil gibt dem Leser kurz und präzise Antwort auf seine Fragen. Die wichtigsten Grundlagenpapiere, eine Zeittafel, eine Liste der TS-Stellen mit Postadressen in Deutschland, Österreich, der Schweiz, Luxemburg und Straßburg sowie ein Index machen das Buch auch zu einem Nachschlagewerk." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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