08 Jun In Comunalia we do it for you and for Mexico
Comunalia has just joined the initiative #LoHacemosporMéxico (We do it for Mexico), from the Social Value Institute, Deriva, Ecoagency, Values for the Third Millennium and Gentera Foundation, in order to attend to the mental health of the collaborators of its community foundations around Mexico, which are providing immediate support in the face of the crisis.
Comunalia considers that the emotional overload, system capacity limitations, long working hours, and contact with vulnerable and at-risk groups, in addition to the events of private life, generate a latent risk of suffering anxiety and post-traumatic stress in community foundation staff members.
In these three months of the pandemic in Mexico, the collaborators of the 16 Comunalia Community Partner Foundations have focused on providing immediate responses to the needs of the communities where they operate, which implies an exponential increase in working hours and pressure to meet pressing times and requirements.
With this initiative, Social Value Institute, Deriva, Ecoagency, Values for the Third Millennium and Gentera Foundation show their solidarity in the face of the pandemic and social problems in Mexico, to professionally attend to the wounds to mental health in various sectors in the country.
The project started last week, and the implementation will be through the Deriva Method, which consists of a psychological inquiry into the symptoms presented by members of the partner Community Foundations. Subsequently, the cases will be treated individually through virtual and periodic sessions with mental healthcare professionals, and some teams will even receive group support sessions, including punctual follow-up during the development of the project.
For Comunalia, the mental and emotional health of those who collaborate in the 16 partner Community Foundations around the country is very important, because they are the ones who have been working directly with the communities most affected by this crisis.
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