What We Do :: Programs and Projects | Partnerships
Our projects can be described in two areas: mental health assistance and community support.
Community Support: In addition to and as a consequence of our trainings, we have come face to face with the desperate psychosocial circumstances of those whom we train. We have responded by building and supporting orphanages, funding teachers in schools for children of migrant workers, supporting Shan medics operating in the always-dangerous Golden Triangle area, establishing an "Alternatives to Abandonment" program which makes it possible for young Burmese mothers working in Thai sweat shops to keep and not simply abandon their newborn babies, and in other significant ways as well such as bringing a team of Massachusetts dentists to the border once a year. Our thinking has evolved to linking the hope provided by our trainings with the empowerment that is engendered by funding the creative responses of those with whom we partner and train.
Mental Health Assistance: Through culturally responsive education and training, BBP instructs indigenous trainers, medics, community and religious leaders and teachers how to conduct mental health assessments, provide counseling services and manage crises. Trauma therapy and counseling services are also provided to local patients with traumatic and psychosocial symptoms, as well as local leaders and mental health trainees as both therapy and as a training tool. Additionally, local organizations may request BBP to provide advising services on emerging mental health challenges through training, consultative program development, consulting for individual cases and problem solving, and the development and implementation of mental health processes and procedures.
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