Youth Voices: Advocating for people to Patients Engagement Heena

Heena Young health advocate & a peer leader from Nada India advocating for people to patients engagement at workshop organised by Nada India and Dakshama members of Healthy India Alliance.

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EMOTIONAL CPR (ECPR) TRAINING @NADA INDIA BY #CIRCLEOFHOPE

Nada India Foundation organised a training on emotional CPR that was conducted by Lauren Spiro at the Shantiratan Foundation, Chhatarpur on 14th & 16th March'20. The training was attended by 12 participants from various walks of life (Circle of Hope) while Ayaz is the Program Coordinator at Ashra Adhikar Abhiyan , Kushangi has a master's in Clinical Psychology and Pooja is a student of Geriatric Care and Nada Health Advocate. Upon being asked what he was expecting from the training, Amar, also a student of Geriatric Care at American India Foundation (Nada Circle of Hope), said, " CPR toh maine kiya tha, yeh eCPR kya hai yeh janne aaye hain" (I have practiced CPR , I'm here to learn what eCPR is all about). eCPR is a public health education program designed to teach people to assist others through emotional crisis through three steps: C = connecting, P = emPowering, and R = revitalizing. eCPR recognizes that the experiences of trauma, emotional ...

Empower People Living with COVID19 by respecting their rights as patients and caregivers

Image source Enhance the quality of social bonding and social wellbeing by connecting with people living with COVID19 and empower them with their rights as patients and caregivers and create safe space for everyone.... The World Health Organization (WHO) has started using the phrase "physical distancing" instead of "social distancing" as a way to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus from people to people. I think it was over due, Young India Network for Good Health welcomes this move as a step towards to bring back social wellbeing of People Living with COVID19 and their families suffering from social isolation. We underline the importance of a physical distance as "absolutely essential" to respond to global pandemic "it does not mean that socially we have to disconnect from the people who are significant and part of day to day life. Image source Since coronavirus is spread mainly through respiratory d...

Youth Voices: Pooja felt that everyone uses eCPR in their daily lives, knowingly or unknowingly

Health Advocate, Pooja Choudhary, felt that everyone uses eCPR in their daily lives, knowingly or unknowingly. She also observed that generally we practice it with people we know. “jo humse close hote hain, unhi ke saath hum eCPR practice karte hain. Anjaan log jab apno se hi nahi baat kar pate toh humse kaise karenge (We practice it with people who are close to us. When a stranger can’t tell their plight to the people they know, how will they discuss it with us)”, noted Pooja. Dr Fisher agreed that connecting is easier with people we know however eCPR can be practiced with strangers also. It’s like CPR. In his words, “It (eCPR) is a universal language of emotions which supersedes language and culture.” He substantiated this with the example of a baby. We and the baby don’t share a language; it cries and we try to soothe it. We don’t know why it is crying, it gives us clues, we try to address its needs but almost always it needs to be soothed and eventually we realise what ...

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