Program Overview

The Northern Uganda Women Food Basket Organization (NUFOBO) is implementing a voluntary trauma healing and counseling program in Gulu City as a response to the inflicted emotional suffering resulting from conflict, poverty, and displacement. This program equips frontline and community leaders with the necessary tools to render trauma and mental health support at the grassroots level.

Purpose

To train community-based frontline workers in trauma counseling skills that assist in healing, fostering resilience, and restoring emotional well-being in individuals and families dealing with trauma.

Why It Matters

The unfavorable socioeconomic conditions in Northern Uganda coupled with war, domestic violence, substance use, and unrelenting poverty inflict trauma on individuals that remains unaddressed.

Program Focus

This program will address:

• Provide community-level psychosocial interventions
• Fight mental health discrimination
• Develops protective spaces for healing in communities
• Provide healing at the community level

How It Works

• Training takes place on a regular basis at a church hall that is given out for community service
• Training is conducted by NUFOBO Trained staff who have undergone training
• A healing approach grounded on the Bible is emphasized alongside counseling, discussion groups, and prayers are utilized to enhance participation

Target Groups

• Health personnel and teachers as well as local authority figures
• Young people and peer educators
• Women caregivers and church counselors
• Trauma survivors and their advocates