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#NTS2024 Programme

08:00 – 09:00 | Registration and Welcome Coffee

  • Attendees register and network over coffee.

09:00 – 09:20 | Opening Ceremony

  • Welcome Address: Prof. Sezibera Vincent, President Rwanda Psychological Society
  • Opening Remarks: Guest of Honor

09:20 09:35 | Entertainment: Traditional Dance

09:35 – 09:45| Documentary Video

09:45 – 10:30| Session 1: Reflecting on 30 Years of Resilience

Presentations:

  • Research priorities in mental health – MoH/RBC
  • Professionalization and Institutionalization – MoH/RBC
  • Mental health needs and management assessment – MasterCard Foundation, Solid Minds
  • Situational Analysis of Mental Health in Rwanda - Global Health Corps
  • Community based approaches; CBS, Imbuto Foundation
  • Multi-family healing spaces – Interpeace

10:30 – 11:00 | Tea Break

11:00 – 12:30 | Panel Discussion 1: The Evolution of Trauma Care: Reflecting on 30 Years of Resilience

  • Panelists: Ministry of Health (RBC), Community Based Mental Health Programs (NAR, CBS), a person with lived mental health experience, a mental health practitioner.
  • Moderator

12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch Break

14:00 – 14:30 | Session 2: Sustainable Trauma Management Frameworks

Presentations:

  • National mental health policy – MoH (RBC)
  • Mental Health in elderly people; Survivor of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi – AVEGA, GEARG, Ibuka
  • Unity, reconciliation and community resilience – MINUBUMWE
  • Reintegration of Prisoners and Social Cohesion- Prison Fellowship, Interpeace

14:30 – 16:00 | Panel Discussion: Building Strengthened and Coordinated Mental Health Programs

  • Panelists: Interpeace, MINUBUMWE, Community Based Sociotherapy, Imbuto Foundation, NAR, RBC
  • Moderator

16:00 – 16:30 | Tea Break

16:30 – 17:00 | Day 1 Wrap-Up and Reflections

  • Summary of key points and insights from the day’s sessions

08:00 – 08:30 | Networking Breakfast

08:30 – 09:00 | Opening keynote

09:00 – 10:30 | Session 3: Emerging Psychosocial Challenges

Presentations:

  • Child and adolescents’ mental health and wellbeing – UNICEF, UR, RBC
  • Mental health, delinquent behaviors, relapse – NRS, UR-CMH
  • Early pregnancy, parenting and mental health – HHC
  • Mental health in youth – Hear To Share
  • Intergenerational Trauma Transmission
  • Family Approaches in Trauma Healing
  • Mental health in schools – UNM, RBC
  • Artistic Performance: Mashirika

11:00 – 12:30 | Panel Discussion: Addressing Emerging Psychosocial Challenges and Post Genocide Family Dynamics

  • Panelists: Prison Fellowship, UNM, GAERG, ARCT-RUHUKA
  • Moderator: Representative from RPS

12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:30 | Session 4: Interdisciplinary platform for all parties involved in Trauma Management

Panel Discussion Topics:

  • Complementarity between Actors in Mental Health – MoH
  • Establishing a Mental Health Professionals Council
  • Standardizing the requirements for private Mental Health practice
  • Advocating for the availability of Mental Health professionals in large Public and Private institutions to promote Mental Health Wellbeing
  • Advocating for the availability of Mental Health professionals in large Public and Private institutions to promote Mental Health Wellbeing
  • Panelists: MoH, RPS, RAHPC (Board of Psychologists, social worker, occupational therapy), ARCT-Ruhuka, NCDA,

15:30 – 16:00 | Tea Break

16:00 – 17:00 | Closing Ceremony

  • Summary of Symposium Outcomes and Recommendations: Representative from Never Again Rwanda
  • Closing Remarks: Representative from Ministry of National Unity and Civic Engagement (MINUBUMWE)/MoH

17:00 – 18:00 | Cultural Performance and Social Event

  • Performances: Local artists and traditional dance troupe
  • Networking: Informal discussions and networking among participants
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Dusingizemungu Jean Pierre is currently a Senator in the Senate of Rwanda. Professor of Psychology, he headed the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the former National University of Rwanda where he actively participated in the creation of the department of Clinical Psychology. His research is generally focused on the reconstruction of Rwanda after the Genocide against the Tutsi.
Dusingizemungu Jean Pierre led the Ibuka Collective for more than 10 years.