Type: Capacity Building Training
Focus Area: Mental health, peer support, communication, disability inclusion
Participants: Deaf Role Models, sign language interpreters, facilitators, volunteers, and project team members
HCAN supported a three-day Capacity Building Training for Deaf Role Models to strengthen their facilitation, communication, empathy, and peer-support skills. The training aimed to prepare Deaf Role Models to support school health and community sensitization activities, especially for persons with hearing disabilities
The training aimed to:
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Build facilitation and communication skills among Deaf Role Models.
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Strengthen understanding of inclusion, intersectionality, stigma, and lived experience.
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Introduce ethical and practical approaches to peer support.
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Prepare participants for school and community-based sensitization.
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Promote safe, respectful, and participatory peer-support spaces.
