Research: Art Therapy with child soldiers, contact Margaret @ QMU

[krissy]

What

To improve our process and data and ensure relevancy, contact Dr Margaret Hills de Zarate ([email protected]), Senior Lecturer & Programme Leader Art Therapy at Queen Margaret University, who has lots of experience working abroad with child soldiers. (see CV at http://www.qmu.ac.uk/otat/M_Hills%20de%20Zarate.htm)

Referred by Georgina Ruth from With Kids.

How

• Collate findings, learnings and actions in our protected rollings meetings Google document, not on GitHub
• Explain the DML initiative and that you were referred by Georgina. Feel free to share link to drawmylife.org.
• Explain what we're currently collecting in form, that we've previously piloted in a humanitarian day centre in Novi Sad, Serbia (http://www.nshc.org.rs/)
• Gather open insights about her experience of art therapy in general
• Gather open insights about her experience of art therapy working with child soldiers
• Ask for advice on how DML data could be effective campaigning for funding for refugee children's mental health support
• Ask for advice on our data fields / what we're collecting
• Ask for advice on how we're collecting it, any legalities, any software used to collate this type of data
• Ask about insights on the Leuven Scale and SDQ in measuring impact (see and add notes to issue Research: Integrating the Koppitz system, Leuven Scale, SDQ into our data #179)
• Ask for any additional references / contacts
• Share learnings in document with DML team and decide on next steps

[marizoldi]

Done. Document with notes on Google drive..