2023 ACBS Foundation Grant - Aaron S. Luoma Fund for Global Equity
2023 ACBS Foundation Grant - Aaron S. Luoma Fund for Global Equity2023 Grant Recipient
Dr. Alice Morgan, Coordinator of Clinical Psychology at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, and research team Rachel Lassman (Baby Ubuntu) and Michael Gumisiriza (Cohere) are proud to be the recipients of the 2023 ACBS Foundation Grant - Aaron S. Luoma Fund for Global Equity to complete a research project: Helping caregivers create Mighty Children: A Caregiver Support program for Children living with disability in a refugee camp.
The Mighty Children program is a 9 week peer support and education program for caregivers of children living with disability. Based off the Getting to Know Cerebral Palsy program, and with the addition of ACT techniques targeting caregiver wellbeing and resilience through mindfulness, gratitude and acceptance, Mighty Children has previously been found feasible and acceptable in a humanitarian setting in Afghanistan. This Foundation Grant will allow us to train expert-parents and community workers in a Refugee-led Organsiation to run the intervention in their community. We will then trial the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention for a refugee setting in Uganda for caretakers of children living with a disability aged 2-10 years old. It is hoped that with further investment this program may be rolled out in larger trials in across the refugee camps in Uganda and potentially other countries.