CTF-PC Conferences
CTF Formation Committee – Verona, Italy (October 20/21)
by Fr. Scott Binet
Table of Contents – Summer-Fall 2009 – CTF-SOS DRS Newsletter
The CTF Formation Committee had its first meeting on October 20-21 at the Camillian pastoral center in Verona, Italy. The purpose of the meeting was to further implement the proceedings of the CTF-Pastoral Centers 1 Conference held at Tres Cantos, Spain in July 2009. The goal of that meeting was to promote collaboration between the CTF and the 16 pastoral centers of the Order (Ministers of the Infirm) at the level of structure/organization, formation and responding to disasters.
CTF Central sponsored the meeting, and it was hosted by Fr. Angelo Brusco, MI at the pastoral center in Verona. He is the Director of the Center and a former Superior General of the Order. In that capacity, Fr. Angelo established the first standing committee of the CTF in 2001. Its purpose was to put into effect the decision that year of the General Chapter of the Order to have a disaster response organization. I was one of the members of that original 6-person committee and was ultimately made the coordinator of the CTF in 2004. Many thanks to Fr. Angelo for his efforts and foresight in 2001 and his offer to host the 1st meeting of the CTF formation committee. We were also the guests of the nearby Camillian community of San Giuliano, a part of the Lombardo-Venetian Province of the Ministers of the Infirm.
Present at the meeting were:
Fr. Angelo Brusco, MI (Director of the Pastoral Center, CPE Supervisor)
Malaika Ribolati (Doctor in Education, Pastoral Center Staff, Coordinator of Pastoral Center Volunteer Program for Project St. Camillus in Abruzzo )
Dr. Benedetta Bonato (Psychologist, Psychotherapist, collaborator – Italian Medical Research, present at Project Saint Camillus Formation Event in Loppiano, Italy – July 2009)
Marco Iazzolino (Doctor in Education, CTF Central, collaborator – Italian Medical Research, at Loppiano)
Fr. Aristelo Miranda, MI (CTF Philippines)
Fr. Scott Binet MD, MI (CTF Central, SOS DRS, at Loppiano)
Dr. Michele Masotto (Vice-Director of Pastoral Center, Psychologist)
Francisco Prat (Director of Formation – Center of Humanization, Tres Cantos – Spain)
Maria (Student – Pastoral Center)
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- CTF Formation Committee – Verona (L to R: Maria, Benedetta, Fr. Angelo, Malaika, Fr. Aris, Marco, Fr. Scott, Francisco [not pictured: Dr. Michele
The meeting was a liturgical, social and CTF network-strengthening experience. It started on Tuesday October 20 with a shared meal at the San Giuliano community and was followed by an update on CTF activities and a review of the full-text of the proceedings from the CTF Pastoral Centers 1 Conference in Tres Cantos, Spain.
Specific agenda items that followed in the afternoon were a review of the CTF distance-learning proposal submitted to the Italian Episcopal Conference by CTF Central and the Pastoral Center in Tres Cantos under the guidance of Brother Carlos Bermejo, MI. The proposal , written in Spanish, was submitted to the CEI and is directed at promoting a distance-learning course at three sites in Latin America (Camillian Pastoral Centers and otherwise). The content of the course is related to the pastoral care component of the mission of the CTF and will focus more specifically on developing counseling skills for helping disaster victims. The participants started to elaborate a strategy to implement CTF formation in Latin America that will likely involve a "kick-off" conference at one of the pastoral centers. It will be attended by representatives from CTF Central, Spanish-speaking centers in South and Central America, and possibly the pastoral center in Tres Cantos.
Evening activities included the celebration of the Eucharist (Fr. Angelo Brusco presided), a shared meal with the community of San Giuliano, and a tour by foot of the city of Verona led by Fr. Angelo.
The event continued in the AM on October 21 with adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, praying the world mission rosary and the celebration of the Eucharist presided by Fr. Scott Binet. The topic of the morning session was the idea of establishing and developing a "school of charity" as a vehicle for CTF ministry, formation, and network/community building. The notion of starting a school of charity was first mentioned in writing in the CTF Pastoral Centers Conference 1 document as a goal for the CTF to achieve:
"Together with the Kenyan Delegation, SOS DRS, CTF Central and CTF-SOS DRS Kenya to develop a 'school of charity'. As a pilot project, the school will be an opportunity for CTF members and volunteers to have an intense 3-4 week experience of formation and ministry in a community setting. This school of charity would involve the following areas: liturgy, prayer, learning, common-living, and disaster-ministry experiences in the slum of Kibera. All activities would be directed at helping participants to experience the CTF 'way of being and doing'.
Why a "school of charity"? First, Saint Camillus was said to have started a new school of charity - a new way of taking care of the sick and the poor. The words "school of charity" were used at his canonization in 1746 and what he did in witnessing to God's love was recognized by Pope John Paul II in his message to the Camillian Family on the 450th anniversary of the death of its founder.
"His work at the service of the suffering appears as an authentic school. Pope Benedict XIV recognized the newness of its service given with love and skill, that is, combining scientific and technical knowledge, actions and attitudes filled with that caring and sympathetic humanity which is rooted in the Gospel. In his Disposizioni e modi che si devono seguire negli ospedali per servire i poveri infermi, which he wrote in 1584, he offers insights and advice most of which would be adopted by the science of nursing in our day. He maintained that it was important to consider all the dimensions of the sick person with attention and respect, from the physical to the emotional, from the social to the spiritual. In a well-known passage of his Rule he invites us to ask the Lord for the grace "of motherly affection for our neighbour", so that "body and soul can be served with true love. Indeed, with God's grace we want to serve the sick with the affection that a loving mother is wont to show her sick only child".
"However, it is especially by his example that St. Camillus teaches us how to make the service of the sick an intense experience of God, leading us to seek the Lord constantly in prayer and the sacraments. His life seems to repeat the action of the woman described in St John's Gospel (cf. 12:3). He too anoints the feet of Jesus, present in the suffering, with the precious ointment of merciful charity, filling the whole Church and society with the fragrance of his apostolic zeal and spirituality. Today his witness remains a forceful call to love Christ present in our brethren who are burdened by illness."
Pope Benedict in his first encyclical - Deus Caritas Est (God is Love) also refers to Saint Camillus and his works of charity in the conclusion:
"The figures of saints such as Francis of Assisi, Ignatius of Loyola, John of God, Camillus of Lellis, Vincent de Paul, Louise de Marillac, Giuseppe B. Cottolengo, John Bosco, Luigi Orione, Teresa of Calcutta to name but a few—stand out as lasting models of social charity for all people of good will. The saints are the true bearers of light within history, for they are men and women of faith, hope and love."
The group in Verona spent much of the morning developing the notion of the "school of charity" - the overall goal, objectives and tasks that would need to be accomplished, financial issues, and personnel-related concerns. There was a consensus to further explore the idea; to develop a concept paper; to move forward with planning for and hopefully implementing the "school" as a pilot project in Kenya.
The remainder of the afternoon was spent discussing whether EMDR, eye movement desensitization reprocessing, could serve as a tool for the CTF in responding to disasters and whether it might be integrated into the work of the pastoral centers. Both of these issues need to be further explored before any conclusions can be drawn. CTF Central is presently sponsoring 4 people to become proficient in EMDR, all participants at the Rainbow Course held in Loppiano in July. One of those, Dr. Benedetta, led the discussion in Verona. Here is an interesting video on the technique. and another on PTSD and the technique in a disaster-setting
Before lunch the group discussed a formation possibility that may arise out of the Rainbow Study that is part of Project Saint Camillus.
The study is directed at looking at the pre and post-intervention prevalence of PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder] in children affected by the earthquake in Abruzzo. Working together with Bambin Gesu Hospital [Rome], Caritas, IMR, and other collaborators, CTF Central may look to promote what is being called an “international school” directed at discussing the confluence of PTSD, disasters and children in the context of Studio Rainbow, the St. Camillus Project and the entire mission of CTF. Given the scope of the Study, the potential involvement in the study of US institutions and the desire to involve participants from places outside of Italy, the formation event is being billed as an “international school”. The notion is still in its infancy, but the formation committee agreed to develop a concept paper directed at planning for and hopefully implementing the school – most likely sometime in 2010.
The afternoon of the 21st provided for a discussion about how the CTF and pastoral centers can collaborate more closely – at the level of structure/organization; formation and disaster response. Items discussed were the history and evolution of the entity known as the pastoral center in the Camillian world (there are now some 16 pastoral centers in the world, and the first was started in Verona by Fr. Angelo!). Fr. Angelo offered some alternatives for collaboration – approaches that could involve individual agreements between the CTF and a particular pastoral center (like is happening with those in Kenya, Tres Cantos or Verona) or collaboration that is a result of a more systematic approach that might come about if a meeting of the pastoral centers is convoked to explore specifically the issue of collaborating with the CTF. The present collaboration with the pastoral center in Verona was reviewed (formation for volunteers in Abruzzo after the earthquake and the sending of volunteer counselors to help victims. I would meet with some of the volunteers later in the afternoon). Fr. Angelo also indicated that he would look for ways to integrate a course into the master’s program in counseling and for other moments of formation regarding pastoral care in disasters.
The meeting ended on a high note as Father Angelo offered to host another formation committee meeting in the future, and Fr. Scott distributed the recently made t-shirts for Project Saint Camillus. In the end, the event was a very fruitful liturgical, social and CTF-network-strengthening experience.
Saint Camillus, intercede for us.
Fr. Scott Binet
Table of Contents – Summer-Fall 2009 – CTF-SOS DRS Newsletter
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CTF-Pastoral Centers 1 Conference (July 2009 -Tres Cantos, Spain) – Full Text of Proceedings
CTF – Pastoral Centers Conference 1
July 9-15, 2009 in Tres Cantos – Spain.
CTF-Camillian Pastoral Centers Conference 1 took place from July 9-15, 2009 in Tres Cantos, Spain. The week-long event was hosted by the Center for the Humanization of Healthcare, the Spanish Province of the Order, CTF Central and SOS DRS. The Conference was an intense yet enjoyable social, liturgical and work/formation experience. Present were representatives from 4 pastoral centers: Malaika Ribolati (Verona); Fr. John Mosoti MI (Nairobi); Francisco Prat (Madrid); Fr. Aristelo Miranda MI (Manila); 2 members of CTF Central (Dr. Marco Iazzolino and Fr. Scott Binet MD, MI); 4 guest formators: Fr. Arnaldo Pangrazzi MI (Camillianum); Mag. Eva Meunker (Center for Applied Psychotrauma – Vienna); Benedetta Bonato (Italian Medical Research); Consuelo Santamaria (Center for the Humanization of Healthcare – Spain)
CTF-Camillian Pastoral Centers Conference 1 is part of the strategic plan for the Camillian Task Force agreed to at the CTF Leaders Conference in Rome in February 2009. The purpose of the meeting in Tres Cantos was to further promote collaboration between the CTF and the 16 Camillian pastoral centers in the world in the areas of: formation; organizational structure; and responding to disasters. There is already collaboration between the CTF and the pastoral centers in Verona (St. Camillus Project); Nairobi, Kenya (CTF-SOS DRS Project in the slum of Kibera); and Madrid (CTF Pastoral Center 1 meeting).
The work and formation aspect of the conference included the following: examining the history, activities and mission of the CTF – to witness to the merciful love of Christ for the poor and the sick in word, deed and sacrament by serving the medical, pastoral and humanitarian needs of people affected by man-made and natural disasters; teaching and interactive learning in the two areas that comprise CTF pastoral care for disasters – psychosocial and spiritual assistance; reviewing both the Saint Camillus Project (disaster relief in Abruzzo after earthquake) and the CTF-pastoral center pilot project in Nairobi. Social highlights of the conference included a day-trip to Toledo, Spain and the celebration of the Feast of St. Camillus on July 14 with the members of the Spanish Province in Tres Cantos. Daily liturgical highlights included celebrating Holy Mass, Eucharistic adoration and the praying of the Divine Mercy Chaplet and the World Mission Rosary.
Particular attention was directed at examining the nature of the pastoral care intervention of the CTF in its psychosocial and spiritual dimensions. In this the participants were particularly informed by the example of St. Camillus and his sons and daughters who through the years have served the poor and the sick in disasters and elsewhere. St Camillus, himself a recipient of mercy, was the founder of a new school of charity (Constitution – Ministers of the Infirm 8, 9). This school finds an excellent expression in the mission of the CTF: to witness to merciful love of Christ for the poor and the sick in disasters. As with the Order, CTF members are called to see the Lord himself in the poor and the sick and to be Christ’s presence to those they serve in His name (Constitution 13).
The CTF pastoral care intervention is one of being, communicating, learning and doing – serving the psychosocial and spiritual needs of those affected by man-made and natural disasters – including victims, families, team members and other relief workers. Providing psychosocial assistance entails detecting needs and accompanying and counseling individuals and the affected community who have experienced normal and abnormal stress reactions to a traumatic event. Recognition, prevention of and providing therapy for abnormal stress reactions, particularly post traumatic stress disorder, is an important part of the intervention. Providing spiritual support is the second dimension of the CTF pastoral care intervention for disasters. This includes assistance in primarily 4 areas:
1) Preparing CTF members for their disaster relief mission in an ongoing manner through cultivating a certain “CTF way of being and doing” that is informed by the Catholic Faith, the Camillian charism and those faith expressions that are particular to the CTF. This cultivation includes liturgical experiences, prayer, the promotion of individual spiritual development, retreats, formation experiences and reading.
2) Supporting disaster victims and family members after a disaster through prayer; sacraments; counseling them in the face of stress, grief, and questions of meaning; establishing and facilitating encounters, including self-help groups for the traumatized.
3) Supporting the CTF team in its spiritual needs during a disaster relief mission through liturgy, prayer and the accompaniment of members by qualified personnel.
4) Facilitating the reintegration of CTF team members into daily life after a disaster relief mission.
The conference participants spent a significant amount of time doing strategic planning as regards collaboration between the CTF and the pastoral centers in the areas of formation, organizational structure and responding to disasters.
Goals and Objectives for 2009-2011
Goal 1 – To progressively implement the developing CTF knowledge platform in pastoral centers with the help of trained formators and formation packages.
Objective 1 (Spain)
- To sensitize the pastoral center staff and students regarding the CTF and its mission
- To give a short course on “grief in disasters” at the 2-day national congress on grief to be held in November 2009 at the Center for the Humanization of Healthcare
- To partner with the Center for Humanization to provide 2-day training sessions on disaster relief as part of the Masters in Counseling.
- To implement the relevant decisions regarding formation that result from the CTF Formation Committee meeting in Verona in October 2009.
Objective 2 (Kenya)
- To sensitize the pastoral center staff and students regarding the CTF and its mission
- To implement the relevant decisions regarding formation that result from the CTF Formation Committee meeting in Verona in October 2009.
- To collaborate with the pastoral center and its clinical pastoral education program so as to prepare people for relief work in man-made and natural disasters.
Objective 3 (Italy)
- To sensitize the pastoral center staff and students regarding the CTF and its mission
- To implement the relevant decisions regarding formation that result from the CTF Formation Committee meeting in Verona in October 2009.
- To continue to develop the collaboration between the CTF and the pastoral of Verona in the Saint Camillus Project in Abruzzo.
Objective 4 (The Philippines)
- To sensitize the pastoral center staff and students regarding the CTF and its mission
- To implement the relevant decisions regarding formation that result from the CTF Formation Committee meeting in Verona in October 2009.
Objective 5 (Burkina Faso)
- To encourage a representative from the pastoral center of the vice-province of Burkina Faso to be present at the CTF-(vice)provinces meeting in Thailand in late 2009.
Objective 6 (India)
- To encourage a representative from the pastoral center of the vice-province of India to be present at the CTF-(vice)provinces meeting in Thailand in late 2009.
Objective 7 (IMR)
- To dialogue with Italian Medical Research, a group of trained formators and a CTF partner in the St. Camillus Project, about working together to develop formation modules and to implement the CTF knowledge platform, particularly as it concerns pro-social information and interventions in disasters.
Goal 2 - To promote a CTF culture of responding to disasters in pastoral centers and elsewhere - primarily as concerns the theological/spiritual and psychosocial aspects of disaster relief, through:
Objective 1 (Short Formation Experiences)
- Organize short courses and 1-3 day conferences
Objective 2 (Pastoral Center Pilot Project – Language Based)
- Organize a meeting of Spanish-speaking pastoral center representatives (e.g. at the pastoral center in Guadalajara, Mexico) with the goal of sensitizing them to the CTF; assessing their formation, organizational and disaster response needs; looking for ways to collaborate in building up a CTF culture of responding to disasters - particularly through distance learning experiences.
Objective 3 (School of Charity)
- To develop and implement the idea of a “school of charity” – a 3-4 week intense experience during which CTF volunteers and members can learn and serve in a disaster setting while experiencing social, liturgical and formation activities in a community environment.
Goal 3 - To further develop the CTF-Pastoral Center Pilot Project in Nairobi, Kenya
Objective 1 (Strategic Planning)
- To engage the members of CTF-SOS DRS Kenya in a strategic planning dialogue
Objective 2 (Strengthening of Existing Collaboration)
- To strengthen the already existing collaboration in the areas of formation (CPE); organizational structure (CTF Office and staff at the pastoral center) and disaster response (ministry in slum of Kibera)
Objective 3 (Promote Collaboration)
- To encourage the members of CTF-SOS DRS Kenya to continue ministry in the area of pastoral care including direct psychosocial and spiritual support of people in the slum of Kibera and examine the development and implementation of prosocial programs directed at the prevention of psychospiritual trauma, particularly in the most vulnerable – women and children.
Objective 4 (School of Charity)
- Together with the Kenyan Delegation, SOS DRS, CTF Central and CTF-SOS DRS Kenya to develop a “school of charity”. As a pilot project, the school will be an opportunity for CTF members and volunteers to have an intense 3-4 week experience of formation and ministry in a community setting. This school of charity would involve the following areas: liturgy, prayer, learning, common-living, and disaster-ministry experiences in the slum of Kibera. All activities would be directed at helping participants to experience the CTF “way of being and doing”.
Goal 4 -To collaborate with the Center for the Humanization of Healthcare in Spain to develop a biennial formation program to promote the CTF culture of responding to disasters in Latin America.
Objective 1 (Strategic Planning)
- Together with CTF Central to develop and implement a distance-learning project in Latin America that involves promoting a CTF culture of responding to disasters. The project would be implemented through 2011 in Latin America together with at least 3 pastoral centers to be chosen in conjunction with the meeting of Spanish-speaking pastoral center representatives in 2010.
Goal 5 - To further explore the role of a pastoral center in promoting the mission of the CTF in its (vice) province or delegation.
Objective 1 (CTF-Provinces Meeting 1 – 2009)
Exploring the role of the pastoral center will receive significant attention at the CTF-Provinces Conference 1 in Thailand towards the end of 2009.
Objective 2 (CTF formation meeting – October 2009 in Verona)
To explore the ways of implementing the various formation initiatives contained in this document and agreed to in principle at the CTF – Pastoral Centers 1 meeting in Tres Cantos, Spain (July 2009).
Collaboration Between CTF and Pastoral Centers
Achieving the Stated Goals and Objectives for 2009-2011
To achieve the above-mentioned strategic planning goals and objectives and to promote further collaboration the conference participants agreed:
1. To develop a CTF formation committee and to convene a meeting in October 2009 at the pastoral center in Verona, Italy.
2. To have a representative of CTF Central make a presentation of the developing collaboration between the CTF and the pastoral centers at the CTF-Provinces meeting to be held in Thailand in late 2009.
3. To convene a meeting of Spanish-speaking pastoral center representatives in Latin America towards the beginning of 2010.
4. To assess and promote collaboration between the various members of the CTF disaster relief network at the CTF Leaders Conference 2 to be held in early 2010. These members include CTF Central; Camillian provinces, vice-provinces, delegations; Camillian pastoral centers, Camillian NGOs [SOS DRS]; lay and religious collaborators.
5. To hold the CTF-Pastoral Centers Conference 2 in Nairobi, Kenya in the summer of 2010.
6. To plan and implement a school of charity experience in the summer of 2010 around the time of the CTF-Pastoral Centers Conference 2 and in association with the CTF-Pastoral Center Pilot Project in the slum of Kibera (Nairobi).
On Behalf of CTF Central – Fr. Scott Binet MD, MI
September 14, 2009
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
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CTF – Pastoral Centers Conference 1
July 9-15, 2009 in Tres Cantos – Spain.
CTF-Camillian Pastoral Centers Conference 1 took place from July 9-15, 2009 in Tres Cantos, Spain. The week-long event was hosted by the Center for the Humanization of Healthcare, the Spanish Province of the Order, CTF Central and SOS DRS. The Conference was an intense yet enjoyable social, liturgical and work/formation experience. Present were representatives from 4 pastoral centers: Malaika Ribolati (Verona); Fr. John Mosoti MI (Nairobi); Francisco Prat (Madrid); Fr. Aristelo Miranda MI (Manila); 2 members of CTF Central (Dr. Marco Iazzolino and Fr. Scott Binet MD, MI); 4 guest formators: Fr. Arnaldo Pangrazzi MI (Camillianum); Mag. Eva Meunker (Center for Applied Psychotrauma – Vienna); Dr. Benedetta Bonato (Pediatricin, Italian Medical Research); Consuelo Santamaria (Center for the Humanization of Healthcare – Spain)
CTF-Camillian Pastoral Centers Conference 1 is part of the strategic plan for the Camillian Task Force agreed to at the CTF Leaders Conference in Rome in February 2009. The purpose of the meeting in Tres Cantos was to further promote collaboration between the CTF and the 16 Camillian pastoral centers in the world in the areas of: formation; organizational structure; and responding to disasters. There is already collaboration between the CTF and the pastoral centers in Verona (St. Camillus Project); Nairobi, Kenya (CTF-SOS DRS Project in the slum of Kibera); and Madrid (CTF Pastoral Center 1 meeting).
The work and formation aspect of the conference included the following: examining the history, activities and mission of the CTF – to witness to the merciful love of Christ for the poor and the sick in word, deed and sacrament by serving the medical, pastoral and humanitarian needs of people affected by man-made and natural disasters; teaching and interactive learning in the two areas that comprise CTF pastoral care for disasters – psychosocial and spiritual assistance; reviewing both the Saint Camillus Project (disaster relief in Abruzzo after earthquake) and the CTF-pastoral center pilot project in Nairobi. Social highlights of the conference included a day-trip to Toledo, Spain and the celebration of the Feast of St. Camillus on July 14 with the members of the Spanish Province in Tres Cantos. Daily liturgical highlights included celebrating Holy Mass, Eucharistic adoration and the praying of the Divine Mercy Chaplet and the World Mission Rosary.
Particular attention was directed at examining the nature of the pastoral care intervention of the CTF in its psychosocial and spiritual dimensions.
The CTF pastoral care intervention is one of being, communicating, learning and doing – serving the psychosocial and spiritual needs of those affected by man-made and natural disasters – including victims, families, team members and other relief workers. Providing psychosocial assistance entails detecting needs and accompanying and counseling individuals and the affected community who have experienced normal and abnormal stress reactions to a traumatic event. Recognition, prevention of and providing therapy for abnormal stress reactions, particularly post traumatic stress disorder, is an important part of the intervention. Providing spiritual support is the second dimension of the CTF pastoral care intervention for disasters. This includes assistance in primarily 4 areas:
1) Preparing CTF members for their disaster relief mission in an ongoing manner through cultivating a certain “CTF way of being and doing” that is informed by the Catholic Faith, the Camillian charism and those faith expressions that are particular to the CTF. This cultivation includes liturgical experiences, prayer, the promotion of individual spiritual development, retreats, formation experiences and reading.
2) Supporting disaster victims and family members after a disaster through prayer; sacraments; counseling them in the face of stress, grief, and questions of meaning; establishing and facilitating encounters, including self-help groups for the traumatized.
3) Supporting the CTF team in its spiritual needs during a disaster relief mission through liturgy, prayer and the accompaniment of members by qualified personnel.
4) Facilitating the reintegration of CTF team members into daily life after a disaster relief mission.
The conference participants spent a significant amount of time doing strategic planning as regards collaboration between the CTF and the pastoral centers in the areas of formation, organizational structure and responding to disasters.
Goals and Objectives for 2009-2011
Goal 1 – To progressively implement the developing CTF knowledge platform in pastoral centers with the help of trained formators and formation packages.
Goal 2 - To promote a CTF culture of responding to disasters in pastoral centers and elsewhere - primarily as concerns the theological/spiritual and psychosocial aspects of disaster relief, through:
Goal 3 - To further develop the CTF-Pastoral Center Pilot Project in Nairobi, Kenya
Goal 4 -To collaborate with the Center for the Humanization of Healthcare in Spain to develop a biennial formation program to promote the CTF culture of responding to disasters in Latin America.
Goal 5 - To further explore the role of a pastoral center in promoting the mission of the CTF in its (vice) province or delegation.
To achieve the above-mentioned strategic planning goals and objectives and to promote further collaboration the conference participants agreed:
1. To develop a CTF formation committee and to convene a meeting in October 2009 at the pastoral center in Verona, Italy.
2. To have a representative of CTF Central make a presentation of the developing collaboration between the CTF and the pastoral centers at the CTF-Provinces meeting to be held in Thailand in late 2009.
3. To convene a meeting of Spanish-speaking pastoral center representatives in Latin America towards the beginning of 2010.
4. To assess and promote collaboration between the various members of the CTF disaster relief network at the CTF Leaders Conference 2 to be held in early 2010. These members include CTF Central; Camillian provinces, vice-provinces, delegations; Camillian pastoral centers, Camillian NGOs [SOS DRS]; lay and religious collaborators.
5. To hold the CTF-Pastoral Centers Conference 2 in Nairobi, Kenya in the summer of 2010.
6. To plan and implement a school of charity experience in the summer of 2010 around the time of the CTF-Pastoral Centers Conference 2 and in association with the CTF-Pastoral Center Pilot Project in the slum of Kibera (Nairobi).
On Behalf of CTF Central – Fr. Scott Binet MD, MI
September 14, 2009
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
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| Julio 2009 | INTERVENCIONES EN CRISIS Y CATÁSTROFES La “Camillian Task Force” reunió en el CEHS a Camilos del mundo |
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El CEHS fue del 9 al 15 de julio la sede de la Conferencia internacional “Camillian Task Force”, una iniciativa que desde 2001 coordina y articula la intervención en crisis y catástrofes de los Religiosos Camilos en el mundo. Participarán camilos de EEUU, Kenia, Filipinas, Italia, Austria, India y España entre otros.
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Camillian Task Force-Pastoral Centers 1 Conference Held in Madrid
CTF conference held in Madrid
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 The Camillian Task Force (CTF Central) held a six-day conference at the Centro di Humanizacion (a Camillian pastoral center) in Madrid, Spain from July 9-15. The conference was hosted by the Spanish Province. Participants from Kenya, Italy, Spain and the Philippines (represented by Aris Miranda) joined the conference and shared their accomplishments and future plans for the promotion of the CTF mission. Most of the participants were our lay collaborators.
The conference was graced by the presence of two distinguished mentors in various fields of expertise. Magister Eva Munker-Kramer from Austria gave the conference on psychotraumatology as an approach in assisting disaster victims suffering from post-traumatic disorder. Mag. Eva runs a Center for Applied Psychotraumatology in Vienna. The second resource person, Fr. Arnaldo Pangrazzi, MI, gave the conference on Spiritual Care in Disasters. Fr. Arnaldo is a professor at the Camillianum Institute on Pastoral Health Care and an itinerant speaker on pastoral health care.
At the end of the conference, the participants took the major step of starting to develop a curriculum of formation for CTF volunteers as part of its strategic planning. CTF members saw the need to be more aggressive in its promotion due to the urgency of the time. The SOS DRS in the US is supporting all the efforts of the CTF in propagating its mission. Fr. Aristelo Miranda, MI CTF-Philippines
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