Professor Frédérique Vallieres

Conducted in collaboration with the International Federation of the Red Cross, Red Crescent's Psychosocial Reference Centre, the Missing Link will develop Supervision Guidelines for use within mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programming within humanitarian emergencies. Using action research approaches to ensure maximum buy-in and widespread use, the Missing Link benefits from the active participation of key stakeholders within the field of MHPSS.

TS4TIC aims to improve the quality of care in an acute hospital through the development of a translational simulation improvement programme for trauma-informed care (TS4TIC) by (i) co-designing a TIC improvement programme for use in acute hospital settings using translational simulation (TS) approaches (TS4TIC), (ii) implementing TS4TIC in an emergency department and acute ward located in SJH, and (iii) co-evaluating the effectiveness and acceptability of TS4TIC using the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Model for Improvement across two successive Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) cycles and co-defined success indicators

APOLLO is a European Commission-funded research collaboration between researchers located across Finland, France, Italy, Ireland, Lithuania, Sweden, and the United States. The objectives of APOLLO are to: (1) identify (i) individual, (ii) organisational, and (iii) meso-organisational (team, middle-manager) level factors that affect the physiological and mental health, wellbeing and resilience of health and healthcare workers and, (2) use this understanding to provide stronger and more cost-efficient managerial tools that can be used to better train team managers and directors of hospitals on methods to enhance the resilience of healthcare professionals and, (3) in turn, improve and increase collaboration between policymakers and stakeholders to jointly fight against factors causing stress in the workplace.

Accessing healthcare in hospitals for those with complex psychological trauma histories can often be triggering, resulting in challenging interactions between patients and staff, and placing patients at increased risk of avoidable patient safety events and poorer health outcomes. Building on the success of TS4TIC, which uses transformative simulation approaches to impart the principles of trauma informed care within acute hospital settings - this KTA award will be used to develop easy-to-use third-level educational training tools, for use across other health professions including nursing, dentistry, and pharmacy. In specific, the tools include the use of personas, or fictitious character profiles, whose experiences, emotions, and perspectives are depicted across a patient journey, as the pathway an individual might experience in deciding when, where, and how to access health care, and what happens to that individual once they make contact with a healthcare provider. These educational tools will be developed, refined, and finalised together with students, educators and experts by experience in the form of a series of workshops, to ensure that the personas, patient journeys, and training tools are acceptable and accessible to students and educators alike.

The REFUGE-ED project links two disciplines: Education and mental health and psychosocial support to provide tools for better education, wellbeing and social belonging for children (including forcibly displaced children) in Europe. Central to REFUGE-ED is the process of co-creation - using a dialogic process with children, families, teachers, practitioners, policy-makers and other relevant stakeholders - to co-create knowledge and identify pilot actions to be carried out across 46 action sites in 6 countries (Sweden, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Greece and Bulgaria). The final co-created Brokering Knowledge Platform (https://bkp.refuge-ed.eu/) offers tools, solutions and recommendations, including guidelines and criteria on capacity building training, solution adaptation and community engagement in easy-to-use off-line package, in different formats, to support the implementation, reuse and scalability of evidence-based mental health and educational actions that promote social belonging in children.