https://www.momentsofrefuge.com/covid19-crisis-and-mindfulness-sos-for-refugees daily 0.75 2020-06-10 https://www.momentsofrefuge.com/sos-english daily 0.75 2023-01-26 https://www.momentsofrefuge.com/session-1 daily 0.75 2023-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/1588268077703-TDFCVCJFZ4YOL8V4LOS5/BACK.png session 1 - english https://www.momentsofrefuge.com/session-2-english daily 0.75 2023-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/1588268158424-CSXSUF86090B33QIZDE4/BACK.png session 2 - english https://www.momentsofrefuge.com/session-3-english daily 0.75 2023-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/1588268486170-X257LSTN02CM5HNK6E2A/BACK.png session 3 - english https://www.momentsofrefuge.com/session-4-english daily 0.75 2023-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/1588268681884-JE0FT3HJD714LZ3Q9FH2/BACK.png session 4 - english https://www.momentsofrefuge.com/session-8-english daily 0.75 2023-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/1588269346617-ZKVOM33XV2KGT8DSIQUN/BACK.png session 8 - 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tigrinya https://www.momentsofrefuge.com/additional-practice-session-7-3-steps-to-cope-with-difficulties-3-minutes-tigrinya-1 daily 0.75 2020-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/1588269301562-MRT6K5V750SMPRF5784Y/BACK.png additional practice session 7 3 Steps to Cope with Difficulties (3 minutes) - Tigrinya (Copy) https://www.momentsofrefuge.com/additional-practice-session-8-t daily 0.75 2020-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/1588269390692-LJNBN8J0XZGRIMFVNPD1/BACK.png additional practice session 8 - Tigrinya https://www.momentsofrefuge.com/additional-practice-session-3-tigrinya-copy daily 0.75 2020-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/1588268428902-3T0UN2HSO1ONVN2O69OM/BACK.png additional practice session 3 - tigrinya (Copy) https://www.momentsofrefuge.com/additional-practice-session-4-tigrinya daily 0.75 2020-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/1588268428902-3T0UN2HSO1ONVN2O69OM/BACK.png additional practice session 4 - tigrinya https://www.momentsofrefuge.com/additional-practice-session-7-selfcompassion-15-minutes-tigrinya daily 0.75 2020-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/1588269301562-MRT6K5V750SMPRF5784Y/BACK.png additional practice session 7 Self-Compassion (15 minutes) - Tigrinya https://www.momentsofrefuge.com/ukrainian-refugee-crisis daily 0.75 2022-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/4d4accdd-99dc-4999-824f-38da76d9a392/hammer+nut+ukraine.jpg Ukrainian Refugee Crisis - Moments of Refuge for Ukraine Mission, Strategic Plan & Projects Operations I. THE UKRAINIAN HUMANITARIAN & MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS: WE MUST ACT NOW Over 13 million Ukrainians have been forcibly displaced due to the violence, atrocities and tragic injustice of the invasion. Despite the extraordinary collective courage and resilience of the Ukrainian people, a mental health crisis is fast-emerging from the trauma, stress, and tragic injustice of the invasion and refugee crisis. Our findings among forcibly displaced Ukrainians point to exponentially growing rates of mental ill health characterized by distress, despair, and social disconnection. II. THE MOMENTS OF REFUGE PROJECT: CLINICAL SCIENCE WITH A SOCIAL JUSTICE MISSION We have therefore launched the Moments of Refuge for Ukraine. Our mission is to empower forcibly displaced Ukrainians to begin to heal and recover, and thereby to help prevent the destructive long-term consequences of forced displacement for families and communities. To achieve this aim, the program delivers our evidence-based mindfulness intervention that is trauma-sensitive, socio-culturally adapted, and designed for diverse forcibly displaced people and contexts, and now tailored to Ukrainians. Our randomized clinical trial research has previously established the safety, efficacy, feasibility and scalability of Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Refugees for even the most vulnerable forcibly displaced people (e.g. survivors of torture, human trafficking, former child soldiers). The intervention model is designed to empower and enable forcibly displaced people to experience moments of refuge and safety in their own minds and bodies in the short-term, and thereby facilitate the process of recovery and healing post-displacement to unfold in the long-term. III. MOMENTS OF REFUGE FOR UKRAINE: PHASES OF IMPLEMENTATION PHASE I: Global Reach Through Online Platform. The intervention will be delivered by means of our Mindfulness-SOS for Ukrainians Online Platform (www.momentsofrefuge-ukraine.com). This approach will ensure the broadest global reach and access of the intervention program, including for the most isolated and vulnerable Ukrainians, and offers maximal choice, flexibility and geographic mobility for Ukrainians post-displacement. This approach also allows humanitarian aid, re-settlement, and health organizations, as well as individual clinicians, to immediately deliver the program without the implementation barrier of training and certification. Importantly, the online platform includes a built-in capacity to conduct, cost-effective large-scale monitoring and evaluation of the program that enables us to continually optimize its delivery and therapeutic impact. The digital platform thus has the capacity to reach and effectively impact the recovery of a limitless number of Ukrainians in need. Data from our pilot research are promising – we see initial evidence of acceptability and engagement with the digital intervention among Ukrainians around the world. We are now also working to develop an app-based extension of the online platform that will work off-line. PHASE II: Community-Embedded Groups. In addition to the mobile-health online delivery platform, the program will be delivered on-the-ground within and by Ukrainian communities through Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Ukrainians. This is our group-based delivery format that provides more intensive intervention and support, yet is still brief and low-cost. Phase II community-embedded implementation will, like Phase I, entail systematic monitoring and evaluation of the program to optimize its delivery and therapeutic impact. Building on existing and emerging technological systems within Ukraine and across communities hosting forcibly displaced Ukrainians around the world, will be critical to enable and accelerate implementation of Phase II. Most notably, we foresee implementing Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Ukrainians to groups of adult Ukrainians through the large global network of digital classrooms that have been established around the world to reach and educate Ukrainian children. This existing community-embedded digital solution will connect groups of Ukrainian parents (primarily mothers) with instructors trained the expertise to deliver Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Ukrainians as well enable monitoring and evaluation to optimize program delivery and its therapeutic impact. This is a an innovative community-embedded technology for intervention implementation that we believe has exciting and scalable potential. IV. MOMENTS OF REFUGE FOR UKRAINE: IMPACT GOALS I. Intervention. To empower and enable Ukrainians to cultivate moments of refuge and safety in their own bodies and minds, and thereby initiate a process of recovery from trauma- and stress-related mental health outcomes of conflict and forced forced displacement. II. Prevention. To prevent destructive consequences of conflict and forced displacement for individual health (e.g. prevent suicide), for families (e.g. prevent intimate-partner violence), for children (e.g. prevent inter-generational transmission of trauma and stress), and for Ukrainian communities (e.g. prevent fragmentation of community resilience and social capital). III. Social Impact Multiplier. To augment and thereby amplify the impact of social justice and mobility policies and programs for Ukrainians post-conflict and post-displacement. Because mental health problems are a barrier to benefiting from such policies and programs, systemically targeting mental health in this way will multiply the social impact of such programs. V. SUPPORT MOMENTS, SUPPORT UKRAINIAN RECOVERY We are now reaching out to partners who identify with our mission and evidence-based strategy to support Ukrainians and Ukrainian refugees around the world. Together we are raising $1 million to invest in and support the initial year of the initiative. In the initial phase of the project (initial 9-12 months), the primary modality of reach and impact will be delivered vis-à-vis our Mindfulness-SOS for Ukrainians Online Platform and its systematic monitoring and evaluation. Consequently, Phase I of the project will be carried out by our team at the University of Haifa in close partnership with Ukrainian community leaders and dozens of partner organizations embedded in refugee Ukrainian communities around the world and throughout the Ukraine. Accordingly, projected costs support the core Moments of Refuge for Ukraine program and monitoring-evaluation team. In the second phase of the project (9-24 months), the project’s modality of reach and impact will be expanded to also entail training, dissemination and community-embedded implementation of the more intensive group-based Mindfulness-Based Trauma for Ukrainians, along with its systematic monitoring and evaluation. This second phase of the project will be coordinated by our team at the University of Haifa as well as multiple on-site project implementation teams in Ukrainian refugee communities around the world and throughout the Ukraine. This phase, and crucially work within Ukrainian communities, will be facilitated by our partner Ukrainian community leaders and partner organizations embedded in refugee Ukrainian communities around the world and throughout the Ukraine. Accordingly, projected Phase II costs will grow significantly beyond Phase I costs. We foresee that Moments of Refuge for Ukraine will be needed for at least the next 3-5 years, during which Ukraine and the global Ukrainian community will need to recover and rebuild. 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The multi-talented Dr. Orit Reem and Ron Alon were our MBTR-R group instructors and worked closely with our cultural mediators and the men and women of the Eritrean asylum seeker community. Drs. Ido Lurie, MD and Ori Ganor, MD provided generous psychiatric consultation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/1582799669696-7OSGXUTSG1ZK32790YXE/Black+%26+White.jpg Home - Our Origin & Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/1583401594651-OOGKZNRKY1NTCFKOQQ0L/solomon+mirpest+color.png Home - Our Origin & Team Michal Schendar led a qualitative study of participants’ experience of MBTR-R. Iftach Amir contributed his expertise and time to the development of laboratory behavioral and cognitive tasks. Meital Gil Davis was instrumental in all behind-the-scenes coordination of study logistics, research funding, and personnel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/1581934724642-X284ZUTNZA7VUDZHGMBE/Rose-1.jpg Home - Our Origin & Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/1583401494291-Z4BUZ4Q4KN65FRZWOVLT/team+table+color.png Home - Our Origin & Team MBTR-R Tel Aviv and the launch of Moments of Refuge was led by Amit Bernstein, Project Director, Dr. Kim Yuval, Project Coordinator, and Anna Reebs, Research Director. Kim and Anna dedicated their lives to the ethical, rigorous and compassionate conduct of this project. Yuval Hadash was instrumental in helping to develop MBTR-R and led MBTR-R training. Sendel Abraham, Dawit Weldehawariat Habtai, Solomon Gebreyohans Gebremariam, Yikealo Beyene and Mogus Kidane worked on translation, cultural mediation, participant recruitment, and study logistics and data collection. Ron Peleg worked on participant recruitment, study logistics and data collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/1582803982428-7R2IXQJZCDSPPTGLXY02/Kim+Origin+Grandmother.jpg Home - Our Origin & Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/1583401792197-V1YWCIV3724NX2ZON0LH/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Home - Our Origin & Team The project was possible only because of the courageous Eritrean asylum seekers who generously trusted the team and participated in the study. Recently, with the development of Moments of Refuge, our team continues to grow. Most recently, we were lucky to have Shani Zohar join us and lead efforts to expand our work through collaboration with our partner, the Aid Organization for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Israel (ASSAF). https://www.momentsofrefuge.com/work/new-portfolio-item monthly 0.5 2023-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/4d4accdd-99dc-4999-824f-38da76d9a392/hammer+nut+ukraine.jpg Home - Moments of Refuge for Ukraine I. THE UKRAINIAN HUMANITARIAN & MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS: WE MUST ACT NOW Over 13 million Ukrainians have been forcibly displaced due to the violence, atrocities and tragic injustice of the invasion. Despite the extraordinary collective courage and resilience of the Ukrainian people, a mental health crisis is fast-emerging from the trauma, stress, and tragic injustice of the invasion and refugee crisis. Our findings among forcibly displaced Ukrainians point to exponentially growing rates of mental ill health characterized by distress, despair, and social disconnection. II. THE MOMENTS OF REFUGE PROJECT: CLINICAL SCIENCE WITH A SOCIAL JUSTICE MISSION We have therefore launched the Moments of Refuge for Ukraine. Our mission is to empower forcibly displaced Ukrainians to begin to heal and recover, and thereby to help prevent the destructive long-term consequences of forced displacement for families and communities. To achieve this aim, the program delivers our evidence-based mindfulness intervention that is trauma-sensitive, socio-culturally adapted, and designed for diverse forcibly displaced people and contexts, and now tailored to Ukrainians. Our randomized clinical trial research has previously established the safety, efficacy, feasibility and scalability of Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Refugees for even the most vulnerable forcibly displaced people (e.g. survivors of torture, human trafficking, former child soldiers). The intervention model is designed to empower and enable forcibly displaced people to experience moments of refuge and safety in their own minds and bodies in the short-term, and thereby facilitate the process of recovery and healing post-displacement to unfold in the long-term. III. MOMENTS OF REFUGE FOR UKRAINE: PHASES OF IMPLEMENTATION PHASE I: Global Reach Through Online Platform. The intervention will be delivered by means of our Mindfulness-SOS for Ukrainians Online Platform (www.momentsofrefuge-ukraine.com). This approach will ensure the broadest global reach and access of the intervention program, including for the most isolated and vulnerable Ukrainians, and offers maximal choice, flexibility and geographic mobility for Ukrainians post-displacement. This approach also allows humanitarian aid, re-settlement, and health organizations, as well as individual clinicians, to immediately deliver the program without the implementation barrier of training and certification. Importantly, the online platform includes a built-in capacity to conduct, cost-effective large-scale monitoring and evaluation of the program that enables us to continually optimize its delivery and therapeutic impact. The digital platform thus has the capacity to reach and effectively impact the recovery of a limitless number of Ukrainians in need. Data from our pilot research are promising – we see initial evidence of acceptability and engagement with the digital intervention among Ukrainians around the world. We are now also working to develop an app-based extension of the online platform that will work off-line. PHASE II: Community-Embedded Groups. In addition to the mobile-health online delivery platform, the program will be delivered on-the-ground within and by Ukrainian communities through Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Ukrainians. This is our group-based delivery format that provides more intensive intervention and support, yet is still brief and low-cost. Phase II community-embedded implementation will, like Phase I, entail systematic monitoring and evaluation of the program to optimize its delivery and therapeutic impact. Building on existing and emerging technological systems within Ukraine and across communities hosting forcibly displaced Ukrainians around the world, will be critical to enable and accelerate implementation of Phase II. Most notably, we foresee implementing Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Ukrainians to groups of adult Ukrainians through the large global network of digital classrooms that have been established around the world to reach and educate Ukrainian children. This existing community-embedded digital solution will connect groups of Ukrainian parents (primarily mothers) with instructors trained the expertise to deliver Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Ukrainians as well enable monitoring and evaluation to optimize program delivery and its therapeutic impact. This is a an innovative community-embedded technology for intervention implementation that we believe has exciting and scalable potential. IV. MOMENTS OF REFUGE FOR UKRAINE: IMPACT GOALS I. Intervention. To empower and enable Ukrainians to cultivate moments of refuge and safety in their own bodies and minds, and thereby initiate a process of recovery from trauma- and stress-related mental health outcomes of conflict and forced forced displacement. II. Prevention. To prevent destructive consequences of conflict and forced displacement for individual health (e.g. prevent suicide), for families (e.g. prevent intimate-partner violence), for children (e.g. prevent inter-generational transmission of trauma and stress), and for Ukrainian communities (e.g. prevent fragmentation of community resilience and social capital). III. Social Impact Multiplier. To augment and thereby amplify the impact of social justice and mobility policies and programs for Ukrainians post-conflict and post-displacement. Because mental health problems are a barrier to benefiting from such policies and programs, systemically targeting mental health in this way will multiply the social impact of such programs. V. SUPPORT MOMENTS, SUPPORT UKRAINIAN RECOVERY We are now reaching out to partners who identify with our mission and evidence-based strategy to support Ukrainians and Ukrainian refugees around the world. Together we are raising $1 million to invest in and support the initial year of the initiative. In the initial phase of the project (initial 9-12 months), the primary modality of reach and impact will be delivered vis-à-vis our Mindfulness-SOS for Ukrainians Online Platform and its systematic monitoring and evaluation. Consequently, Phase I of the project will be carried out by our team at the University of Haifa in close partnership with Ukrainian community leaders and dozens of partner organizations embedded in refugee Ukrainian communities around the world and throughout the Ukraine. Accordingly, projected costs support the core Moments of Refuge for Ukraine program and monitoring-evaluation team. In the second phase of the project (9-24 months), the project’s modality of reach and impact will be expanded to also entail training, dissemination and community-embedded implementation of the more intensive group-based Mindfulness-Based Trauma for Ukrainians, along with its systematic monitoring and evaluation. This second phase of the project will be coordinated by our team at the University of Haifa as well as multiple on-site project implementation teams in Ukrainian refugee communities around the world and throughout the Ukraine. This phase, and crucially work within Ukrainian communities, will be facilitated by our partner Ukrainian community leaders and partner organizations embedded in refugee Ukrainian communities around the world and throughout the Ukraine. Accordingly, projected Phase II costs will grow significantly beyond Phase I costs. We foresee that Moments of Refuge for Ukraine will be needed for at least the next 3-5 years, during which Ukraine and the global Ukrainian community will need to recover and rebuild. If you like to discuss how you may join us, please contact Professor Amit Bernstein: abernstein@psy.haif.ac.il Global Partners: The Moments of Refuge Project at the University of Haifa has partnered with Global Empowerment Mission, Pandemic of Love, the Ukrainian Mindful Awareness Project, Mindful.org, Smartaid, BStrong, and TeleHelpUkraine. https://www.momentsofrefuge.com/work/new-portfolio-item-1 monthly 0.5 2023-09-29 https://www.momentsofrefuge.com/work/new-portfolio-item-nmpgz monthly 0.5 2023-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/1698600778869-E8ZQ30H1S1UN6CE77NFJ/picasso+dove.png Home - Moments of Refuge for Israel III. MOMENTS OF REFUGE FOR ISRAEL: OUR PLAN National Reach Through a Hybrid Digital Platform + Group Support. The Moments of Refuge for Israel program will be delivered through our online digital mobile health program, in Hebrew, Arabic, and English. This self-guided digital health delivery format ensures broad reach and access, utilization flexibility, and geographic mobility for displaced Israelis, with an unlimited capacity for scaling-up. For Israelis who will be in need of greater support and clinical personalization, our digital mobile Mindfulness-SOS program will also be supported by community-embedded instructor-led groups, in-person or by zoom. This hybrid group-supported intervention delivery format also provides participants with greater access to connecting and recovering, together with a group of community peers. Groups will be led by trained and certified mindfulness instructors with clinical experience in trauma and mental health. The Mindfulness-SOS Intervention Program. Mindfulness-SOS entails 8 brief training session modules and 10 complementary meditation practice exercises, that participants can flexibly access whenever and as frequently as they need. The hybrid in-person group-supported intervention format includes 4-8 (bi)weekly 60-90-minute sessions (10-15 participants/group), designed to support the Mindfulness-SOS digital training session modules and meditation practice exercises. The intervention program entails trauma-sensitive, formal and informal mindfulness meditation and compassion practices, supported by psychoeducation on stress and trauma (e.g. to normalize, de-stigmatize) and socio-culturally inclusive communication of intervention principles and practices to diverse communities. IV. PHASED & PARTNER-BASED IMPLEMENTATION: THE NUTS & BOLTS National Multi-Site Open-Trial. Aligned with our scientific approach to intervention program implementation, Mindfulness-SOS will be implemented through a 2-arm multi-site open clinical trial, among Hebrew- and Arabic-speaking adults. To do this, we will partner with a network of mindfulness instructors and mental health service organizations across Israel. To ensure effective national implementation, we are working closely with the Israel Collective Action for Resilience (ICAR) – a non-profit coordinating and supporting evidence-based mental health care in Israel post-October 7. Phase I: Multi-Site Implementation and Data-Based Intervention Program Optimization. First, Phase I will offer the self-guided digital Mindfulness-SOS program to thousands of Israelis who do not need the more intensive instructor-led group support. Eligibility for access to the self-guided program will be determined based on clinical screening, to ensure safety and optimize potential for clinical effectiveness. Second, implementation of the hybrid group-supported intervention delivery format will initially entail 1-2 training workshops delivered to ~10 instructors, who will then implement the program in ~10 pilot sites across Israel. Prior to launching Phase II, we will quantitatively evaluate Phase I outcomes and conduct any needed data-based adaptation to the self-guided and/or hybrid group-supported intervention delivery formats (i.e. to optimize uptake, engagement, therapeutic effects). Phase II. Scaling-Up Reach and Access. First, scaling-up of the self-guided digital Mindfulness-SOS program program will involve a snow-ball campaign recruiting Phase I program participants, establishment of a network Moments of Refuge for Israel community and municipal organizational partners, as well as a direct-to-user coordinated social media campaign. At Phase II, the self-guided digital program could feasibly reach tens of thousands of Israelis. Second, scaling-up of the hybrid group-supported intervention format will be facilitated via recruitment and training of 10-20 additional group instructors. At Phase II, the group-supported program capacity could reach and impact 600-900 participants every ~8-10 week cycle (i.e. 20-30 instructors, each delivering ~2-3 groups/week, to 10-15 participants/group). Scaling-up of implementation nationally will be coordinated with ICAR. Monitoring and Evaluation: Impact Goals & Outcomes. Using our established digital measurement platform, we will systematically evaluate, quantify and optimize program delivery and its therapeutic impact on trauma- and stress-related mental health symptoms of program participants as well as on their family members and children; empirically identify individuals who need additional mental health care or other services; and thereby generate a novel therapeutic capacity as well as empirical evidence-base to share with mental health care providers in Israel and around the world. Evidence sharing will be coordinated with ICAR. Outcome metrics include improved capacity to cope with the trauma and stress, reduced rates and severity of trauma- and stress-related symptoms (e.g. PTSD, depression, anxiety, suicidality), and thereby, improved family and child outcomes. By impacting thousands of Israelis, the program will also contribute to collective social resilience as well as help buffer social radicalization and polarization within their respective social networks and communities around the country. V. BUDGET OVERVIEW We are now seeking support to launch year one of our project ($500,000 target). Funding is needed primarily to support team personnel, including a national project coordinator, clinical care and training coordinator, community partnership coordinator, a programmer, intervention group leaders, monitoring and evaluation support staff, and logistical expenses. Additional personnel resources from our team, including from Prof. Amit Bernstein, will be provided in kind. An initial target of $175,000 will permit us to launch Phases I and II of the self-guided digital intervention program implementation. We foresee that Moments of Refuge for Israel will be needed, for at least, the next 3 years. If you are interested and would like to discuss how you may join and support us, please contact Professor Amit Bernstein: abernstein@psy.haifa.ac.il https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e42eb054ac75c6f036ad308/8003c967-f751-42cb-8f0b-68fad2654236/1.jpg Home - Moments of Refuge for Israel - MOMENTS OF REFUGE FOR ISRAEL I. HOW WILL ISRAEL RECOVER AND HEAL? Unprecedented Collective Trauma. The tragedy and ongoing crisis of October 7, 2023 has affected every home and every resident of the country and, thereby, their families, friends and allies around the world. Millions of Israelis have experienced a collective trauma and loss, made worse by the ongoing war and existential threat and uncertainty. A Mental Health Crisis. Consequently, a mental health crisis is fast emerging, with unprecedent incidence of PTSD, depression, anxiety, and suicidality, and their destructive consequences for Israeli families and children. It is estimated that this is the single largest public mental health crisis in the history of the State of Israel and among the Jewish community since the Holocaust. Social Radicalization. Worse yet, we also know that human-made collective trauma, particularly when tied to a national, ethnic and religious conflict, will amplify social radicalization, polarization and inter-cultural conflict. These dynamics threaten the future stability of Israeli civil society and any hope for an inclusive shared society. Beyond the initial national humanitarian crisis, the longer-term process of recovery and healing must be addressed effectively. The Treatment Gap. Unfortunately, the mental health workforce in Israel was very small, under-funded, and unable to effectively address the national mental health burden, even before the crisis. Consequently, an unprecedented number of people will need care, but will not be able to access it, when and where they need it. Resources and personnel are, rightfully, being triaged to acute trauma linked to October 7 atrocities and the many horrors of the ongoing war. Yet, it is critical that evidence-based mental health care can be offered not only to the thousands directly exposed, but also to the millions collectively exposed and struggling. There is a national imperative to develop a scalable portfolio of evidence-based therapeutic programs with reach and access across Israel, geared not only to acute mental health crisis responding, but also to the country’s collective recovery and rehabilitation. This is where we can be of help. II. THE MOMENTS OF REFUGE PROJECT: HOPE IN INNOVATION Our Mission. For over a decade, my group has conducted research to discover and develop therapeutic methods to promote recovery and healing among survivors of individual and collective trauma, loss, and existential uncertainty. Our work and findings led to the Moments of Refuge Project – a global social impact- and research- initiative to empower survivors of conflict, trauma and forced displacement, to heal and thrive. The initiative is a uniquely Israeli innovation – motivated by our ethical obligation to care for diverse communities locally and globally, who much like our own ancestors, now struggle with collective trauma, uncertainty and forced displacement. Thus, following the tragedy of October 7 and the war and uncertainty in its wake, we are now launching Moments of Refuge for Israel. Mindfulness & Compassion as a Tool. There is strong evidence that to access our innate capacity to heal and recover from trauma and loss, we need to experience a subjective sense of refuge and safety within our lived experience. Objective safety is crucial, but not sufficient. This is why mindfulness- and compassion-based mental training is central to the Moments of Refuge mission and approach. Mindfulness meditation practices are designed to empower and enable people to experience moments of refuge and safety and, thereby, facilitate our innate capacity to adapt, to heal and to recover. Moreover, in the past decade, a large scientific evidence-base has demonstrated the therapeutic stress-buffering effects of mindfulness and compassion training, therapeutic effects that are equivalent to much more intensive, costly and less scalable psychotherapeutic and pharmacological interventions. Our own randomized clinical trial research has documented that mindfulness- and compassion-based training is safe and effective, even among highly vulnerable trauma survivors facing adversity, injustice and uncertainty. Finally, mindfulness training has broad reach and access, can be delivered to groups of participants and flexibly via digital platforms, is relatively low-cost, and its benefits can be sustained over time within and by communities. This scalability is critical to getting effective science-based care to those that need it, when and where they need it, even in complex and uncertain conflict-affected and post-displacement settings – much like Israel today. Science as a Tool. Our approach to the implementation of Moments of Refuge is also unique because we use science as a tool to most effectively and responsibly implement our intervention programs. What this means, practically, is that we not only deliver therapeutic programs, but we use scientific monitoring and evaluation methods to ensure the ongoing intervention programs’ safety, therapeutic efficacy and impact, personalization of care, and ongoing therapeutic innovation and development. In the dynamic and unprecedented context of the mental health crisis in Israel post-October 7, we believe that our approach is now not only optimal clinically but is necessary ethically.