Our project ‘Community for Tomorrow’ starts in September 2024. It aims to empower the residents of the shelters in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg to interact with their communities in a trauma-sensitive and resilience-promoting way, thereby creating a space of mutual support, belonging, dignity and safety.
The aim of the project is to offer psychosocial support to as many people with refugee or migration background in Germany as possible – at a low threshold, digitally and individually.
Текст українською нижчеs Helfende Wände is an initiative of Wunderflats and the non-profit organization ProjectTogether. The project is jointly funded by the European Union and the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF). In this project, people offering accommodation are connected with..
IPSO’s involvement in Germany started back in 2015/16, when Germany took in almost one million refugees. During the arguments between the protagonists of a welcoming culture on the one hand and supporters of a border fence policy mobilised against it on the other, it quickly became clear that there were not enough professionals available to be able to provide psychosocial support to the…
IPSO’s involvement in Afghanistan dates back to Inge Missmahl’s work in the country that began in 2004, which led to the founding of IPSO g GmbH in Germany in 2008 and to establishing a locally registered non-governmental organisation in 2011. The project work initially focused on introducing low-threshold psychosocial services to people with high psychosocial stressors within the…
After our IPSO Afghanistan NGO was founded, VBC was integrated into the Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) in 2011–2016 with support from the EU and the Federal Foreign Office. The state health system’s capacities improved considerably during this time, but they still showed great potential for expansion in view of the huge need for action. This is why we established our Psychosocial…
The “Gentle Project”, which has been implemented in Berlin accommodation since October 2022 with support from the State Office for Refugee Affairs and was expanded to include Ukrainian and Russian refugees in July 2023, provides the environment needed for dealing with the taboo topic of domestic violence. More LAF accommodations have been successively integrated and there were…
This project focuses on the advanced training of experienced Ukrainian psychologists in VBC and their subsequent employment (10 full-time positions) for providing psychosocial support to Ukrainians through individual counseling. The certified counselors work online from the care points in the asylum shelters and in Berlin as well as in large arrival centres such as Tegel Airport with around…
The aim of this work is to develop sustainable skills and structures by introducing low-threshold psychosocial support for refugees and people with a migration background in Hamburg, which will complement the psychosocial centers: low-threshold psychosocial support as an aid for self-help, which has an impact at individual, community and societal levels.
The many people who fled to Germany in 2015 and 2016 and – more recently – the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine that began on February 24, 2022, triggered an impressive wave of solidarity and support. As a humanitarian organisation that has developed the Value Based Counseling (VBC) method, an innovative form of support for people with flight and migration experiences who are counseled by…