We seek to help gather available Haitian (and
non-Haitian) mental health professional volunteers in the US and Canada who are fluent in Creole or French. This can maximize an orderly and coordinated effort underway to best match people and their skills to needs in Haiti, and to training to help prepare them
for those roles.
We can also refer people to requests for other valuable roles within their home communities. So, we welcome such requests, as well as interest from professionals (psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, doctors, social workers), and others (clergy, teachers, nurses) who can help on the psychosocial level in local Haitian communities and others affected outside of Haiti.
Please create a sign-in file through the REBATI button and answer a few questions. You will pick a password so you can edit your information in case it changes. This information is only shared with planning and relief agencies involved in this response. We appreciate the time you are taking to complete this.
We will keep you regularly updated, as we anticipate that the need for your skills will continue into the months, and perhaps years, ahead.
Your information will be kept confidential as a list of skilled people available to meet these needs, and will only be used for that purpose. You will be contacted as specific strategies for interventions are developed and updated by UN and other lead agencies.
The questions are intended to help best match you with specific organization needs, and within internationally standard “levels of services” for disaster response. Four levels of care have been established by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) in the international consensus document called Guidelines for Mental Health and Psychosocial Services in Emergency Settings: