Parenting on the Thailand/Myanmar Border Updates September - November 2022

Reporting by Stephanie Eagling Peche

September/October 2022

The Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University hosted a webinar titled “The Global Parenting Initiative: Innovating delivery of parenting and psychosocial support to families living on the Thailand-Myanmar border” on 28 September. This seminar reviewed the literature on parenting and barriers to accessing parenting and psychosocial support in forced displacement settings, as well as presented the design of the project on the Thailand-Myanmar border.

You can view recording below

The team is also in the process of developing a script with Sermpanya Foundation for an evidence-based parenting film. The script will be presented to partners for community feedback.

November 2022

Family and Community-Based Approaches for Closing The Treatment Gap in Low-Resource Settings Seminar

The Parenting on the Border research team was busy in November preparing for the next phase of research, a cluster-randomised controlled trial that will begin in 2023.  Sermpanya Foundation has begun production on the evidence-based film intervention, with casting finalised and filming beginning this month.  

Members of the research team have had the opportunity to collaborate in person, as Ajahn Sureeporn Punpueng, Ajahn Pattraporn Chuenglertsiri and Lwin Khine Zar welcomed Stephanie Eagling-Peche to the Annual Mahidol Migration Conference in Bangkok. The conference provided insight into the labour and migration policy context within Thailand and allowed for in-person research development sessions. This month, Principal Investigator Professor Eve Puffer also led a special seminar for the Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University on Global Mental Health: Family and Community-Based Approaches for Closing The Treatment Gap in Low-Resource Settings.