Scope of Work for Play Therapy Training
Background
Relief International (RI) specializes in relief and development programs that benefit people in acute distress. A registered non-profit in the US, UK, France, and Belgium, our work targets those fragile countries or communities that suffer from recurrent man-made or natural crises that impede human development.
RI provides mental health (MH) and physical rehabilitation (PR) services to conflict-affected Syrian refugees in Turkey. Since 2014, RI has aimed to support the Government of Turkey in providing specialized health services to Syrian refugees.
RI currently implements projects in seven refugee-hosting cities, including the large metropolitan areas of İstanbul, Ankara and İzmir, and the Syrian border cities of Hatay, Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa, and Kilis. This is done through six partner (UOSSM, NSPPL, MUDEM, Maya, Multeciler, and MENTOR).
In line with the RI Strategic Plan with regard to capacity building and quality of services provided by partners; RI intends to organize a training on Play Therapy targeting psychologists and clinical psychologists who are working in RI ‘partners MH and psycho-social support (MHPSS) Centers.
Therapists strategically utilize play therapy to help children express what is troubling them when they do not have the verbal language to express their thoughts and feelings. In play therapy, toys are like the child’s words and play is the child’s language. Through play, therapists may help children learn more adaptive behaviors when there are emotional or social skills deficits. Play therapy may also be used to promote cognitive development and provide insight about and resolution of inner conflicts or dysfunctional thinking in the child.
Furthermore, research suggests Play Therapy is an effective mental health approach, regardless of age, gender, or the nature of the problem, and works best when a parent, family member, or caretaker is actively involved in the treatment process.
Since RI operates several mental health centers that provide specialized MHPSS services to all groups, especially children who have experienced disaster conditions, raising the capacity of partners in this area will help them to deal with these children with higher professionalism and better quality services.
The main purpose of the Play Therapy services trainer is to build participants’ expertise on working with children who have relational, emotional and behavioral challenges using a relationship-based approach. The training intends to provide participants with an expertise on play therapy techniques.
Expected Outcome
The training is expected to ensure participants will:
- Develop basic knowledge of the Child and Play Therapy including history, theory, legal and ethical considerations, and child social-emotional development.
- Improve working knowledge of Play Therapy skills and techniques, beginning with theoretical and practice issues including the Play Therapy space and relationship, and reflective responses.
- Develop knowledge base of Play Therapy clinical applications, such as recognizing content and process elements of the child’s therapy narrative, cultural competence and diverse clients, etc.
- Understand working with the child’s support system and within a multi-disciplinary team approach. (such as child psychiatrist, Speech therapist, psychologist, case manager ,,etc)
- Learn how to plan and prepare for a Play Therapy assessment at the outset of treatment, introduce Play Therapy to child and caregivers, conduct interactive play observation, treatment planning and documentation.
- Learn how to evaluate therapeutic progress, plan for termination, and create an effective therapeutic ending for children in Play Therapy.
The training is expected to target 25-30 psychologists and clinical psychologists of RI’s partners MHPSS Centers.
Qualifications of the trainer
The selected trainer(s) is expected to:
- Hold of a Bachelor in Psychology with a specialization in psychotherapy for children
- Have at least five years’ experience in Child Therapy.
- Be a certified and licensed trainer in the field of play therapy
- At least two years’ experience in delivering Play therapy training
- Excellent written and oral English. Turkish and/or Arabic should be preferred
- Work permit preferred
Deliverables for the training (technical)
- Agenda and material for a five day training to be approved by RI;
- Material for participants in a form of a booklet (including the theoretical basis to apply this technique) for distribution to participants on the first day of the workshop (in Arabic and Turkish language);
- All training material (training hands-out and presentations) in soft-copy (USB) for all participants (in Arabic and Turkish langue);
- Signed attendance lists by the participants with their contact details;
- Pre-post training assessment;
- Provide trainees with recognized certificates;
- At least 15 hours of supervision (individual – group) after the completion of the training (could be through Skype with specific dates);
- Draft training report;
- Supervision sessions reports (Two reports);
- Final report including the following;
- Training
- Supervision sessions.
- Recommnedation
- Follow up mechanism
Intellectual Property
All information pertaining to this project (documentary, digital, cyber, project documents, etc.) belonging to RI, which the trainer may come into contact with in the performance of his/her duties under this assignment shall remain the property of RI who will have exclusive rights over their use. Except for the purposes of this assignment, the information shall not be disclosed to the public nor used in any way without written permission of RI. The copyright for all photographs, videos, and other materials produced as part of this assignment will remain with RI.
Logistical arrangements:
The supplier is expected to deliver the requested deliverables within the timeframes mentioned below as well as the related logistical arrangements that mainly includes the trainer, facilitator, training curriculum, per and post-tests, accommodation for participants, visas, transportation and accommodation for trainer/facilitator, catering arrangements…etc.
These arrangements are mentioned below in details.
Requirements:
The supplier is expected to deliver the requested technical training and tools through the below settings that are expected to be fulfilled by the supplier:
I. Location: the training location should be in Gaziantep.
II. Tentative timeframe: The training is expected to be delivered in Gaziantep, Turkey. The contract is expected to start on the third week of November 2019 and final report (according to what mentioned in the deliverables) is expected to be shared post to supervision sessions.
III. Technical training and supervision: It is expected the contract will last for 12 working days (not consecutive) as follow:
- Preparation of training: 3 days
- Training: 5 days
- Supervision: Around fifteen hours (individual – group) following the completion of the training (could be through Skype) for five centers. The supervision should be provided with 2 separated sessions with around a week between the sessions– counted as 3 days
- Final report: 1 day.
IV. Accommodation: Accommodation is required in a suitable hotel for the whole training period in addition to a day before the training. Hotel’s location is recommended to be easily reachable in a safe and secured neighborhood.
Trainees are expected to:
Check-in on 24 November afternoon
Check-out on 29 November noon time.
5 nights
RI will not cover any related to no-show, early check-in, late check-out, absence, minibar usage cases cost or any irrelevant cost. It is the supplier’s responsibility to communicate the message to the trainees and cover any related costs, if incurred.
V. Training venue: A suitable venue that fits at least 25 participants comfortably is required with good ventilation system (a basement venue is not preferable).
Water bottles, coffee, and tea must be available and served at the training venue for all participants all training time. It is highly recommended that the training is held in the hotel where participants are accommodating.
VI. Catering:
- Breakfast: an open buffet breakfast with a variety of high quality fresh food is required on a daily basis for all the participants;
- Coffee breaks: two coffee breaks (coffee, tea, cookies, etc.) are required each day, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon. Likewise, coffee, tea, and water must be available for the participants throughout the workshop.
- Lunch: a full board lunch meals including a variety of fresh food with the option of meat, chicken, fish, and vegetarian ones, in addition to appetizers, sweets, and fruits.
VII. Transportation: if the training venue and the accommodation hotel are in separate locations/areas, the supplier must provide and ensure the safe and adequate transportation of the trainees between the two locations.
VIII. Communication: RI is responsible of providing the list of trainees with their contact info, as well as connecting the supplier with a focal point from RI’s implementing partner in order to facilitate the training arrangements. The supplier may have direct communication with this focal point as well as the trainees, still, however still, no decision can be taken by the supplier without RI verification.
IX. Visibility: through direct guidance from RI, the supplier must adhere to ECHO/RI/UOSSM visibility standards.
X. Other arrangements: the supplier is responsible of handling all other necessary requirements (such as visas, permission from authorities, etc.)When applicable, RI can provide support.
Financial Proposal & Payment Arrangements
The contractor will submit a financial proposal based on a lump sum amount that includes all costs required for the performance of this assignment, such as the contractual fee, taxes; international and domestic travel cost, transportation, USB, printing costs, translation and the feeds recognized certificates. Payment will be made upon submission and RI’s acceptable of the final deliverables.
Submission of Application
The Tender dossier is available from
– E-mail [email protected]
- If you wish to apply for or contact us about this tender, please specify that you saw it on vacanciesinturkey.com
The deadline for requesting Tender dossier is 31 October 2019 at 12:00 pm
The deadline for bid submission is 4 November 2019 at 17:00 pm hrs (Local time)