The GIST-T ProjectThe Global Initiative for Stress and Trauma Treatment (GIST-T) project intends to help expand current efforts to scale up trauma treatment. Its initial focus will be mainly on frontline workers – humanitarian aid workers and peace operations personnel – utilizing the recently developed Confronting Stress and Trauma Resource Kit. That focus will in due course be widened to include other traumatized population groups. Why frontline workers? They deal with situations caused by violent conflicts and natural disasters. They are frequently exposed to traumatic events and circumstances. Increasing their resilience, and attending to their trauma symptoms, will support their ongoing capacity to perform their challenging duties. The contribution large-scale trauma healing could make to enhance social, economic and cultural productivity, as well as individual educability, creativity and well-being, could well be historic. Effective trauma treatment could help break the causal chains of violence begetting violence, abuse begetting more abuse, transmitted from generation to generation. It could bring an end to immense and insidious suffering – suffering that is largely unnecessary. Practical opportunities present themselves daily. The GIST-T project seeks to seize many of the opportunities, and to create new ones. This poses a challenge to all of us. MissionGIST is a non-profit startup based in the greater area of Geneva. Our professional staff seeks to increase awareness of both causes and consequences of stress and trauma on individuals and communities. We strive to improve the availability of, and access to, scientifically validated trauma treatment worldwide. We first focus our engagement on at-risk personnel dealing with violent conflicts and natural disasters, and through them, on disadvantages, underserved populations. Aim To reduce the global burden of stress and trauma, and in so doing promote healing, health and hope, and foster resilience, peace and productivity. Goals• To create greater awareness and understanding among key stakeholders about he far-reaching social, economic, physical and mental consequences of stress and trauma, and of the effective treatments currently available. • To encourage the development of both conventional and innovative training schemes, including those aimed at paraprofessionals and volunteers. • To increase the availability of effective services for stress and trauma in development, protection and humanitarian settings. • To enable the greater use and coverage of services related to stress and trauma reduction. • To promote research into new appropriate methods and approaches that will facilitate scaling-up of broader stress and trauma services within existing formal systems. • To mobilize sufficient resources for GIST-T to become a sustainable organization that fulfills its mission.

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