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OPSIC will design and develop a comprehensive IT based operational guidance system (OGS) based on new research. The OGS serves to integrate European guidelines, empirically validated best practices and approaches on psychosocial support and transforms the analysed and summarised results into checklists for field use. The aim is to generate well-timed and adequate guidance on which strategy to use at any given moment following a disaster and - specified for each target group and event type - what instruments to apply to make the strategy successful. Furthermore, the OGS contains an interactive part that shall enable the crisis managers to use statistical information automatically provided by the target groups. Due to the interactive nature of the system assessment of psychosocial needs and resilience are easy to implement, and the outcomes of these can be used to guide the individuals involved. The statistical accuracy provided by the OGS will inform the strategic interventions needed. Especially the interactive database can help to share best practices and experiences in any type of emergency that arises.
Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner
1) To provide overview of existing guidelines for psychosocial support (PSS) in crisis management and compare these in terms of key points addressed and gaps. 2) To assess and analyse these guidelines from the perspective of their practical relevance and completeness. 3) To establish criteria/indicators for best practices PSS assessment and intervention tools and methods in disaster management. 4) Using the criteria to provide a clear overview of best practices in Psychosocial support in disasters and emergencies focused on emergencies that happened in Europe throughout the last ten years. 5) To match the best practice analysis results as well as the different assessment and intervention methods and tools used in the events to the guidelines and to the different phases of disasters, target groups and types of disasters, and pinpoint gaps and needs from the viewpoint of the experiences from the field. 6) To establish what are the long-term psychological, societal and cultural impact of selected types of natural and man-made crises. 7) To translate and apply evidence based guidelines on psychosocial support in case of crises and disasters, best practices and the state-of- the-art insights on long-term psychological, societal and cultural impact of major incidents into a generally accessible, coherent, guidance and information system for crisis managers via the internet.