In preparation for the 9th CADIS Leadership Conference in Bangkok

This year too, CADIS leaders will gather in Bangkok, Thailand, for their annual conference. 

Starting from November 3, about 30 CADIS representatives from all over the world will meet at the Camillian Center for Pastoral Care in Bangkok for the ninth CADIS Leadership Conference.
 

This year's theme is “Reaffirming our commitment and optimizing our interventions to build vulnerable and resilient communities.”

During the conference, the following topics will be addressed: 1] Community-based disaster management in health emergencies, 2] Mental health intervention in community-based disasters, 3] Psychosocial and spiritual-pastoral approach to disaster management, and 4] Resource mobilization for humanitarian and development interventions. 
 

The 7th Bangkok Conference in 2022 (BKK7) produced the CADIS Strategic Plan 2023-2028, which will guide all our efforts, investments, and sacrifices in building a vulnerable and fully resilient community to disasters. Furthermore, BKK8 in 2023 developed an implementation plan for its priorities, namely resource mobilization and volunteer development programs. 
 

As announced by Fr. Aris Miranda, CADIS director, in the invitation letter, “[...] we are racing against the enormous impact of climate change in our common home. However, we are proud to inform you that we are contributing positively to the global effort to reduce and mitigate its impact, particularly on the most vulnerable communities. In recent years, we have assisted thousands of people who have suffered the severe impact of natural and man-made disasters. As we commit to journeying with the most vulnerable, we will gather again in Bangkok to learn, study, plan, and organize our strategies to travel, facilitate, and assist communities affected and prone to disasters.”

Five days of training, work, and study of new strategies to continue working in the world of vulnerable communities and to seek, together with the community, solutions for the resilience of areas most affected by natural and man-made disasters.

The preparation of the ninth CADIS Conference began months ago with a series of online workshopshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG7yUmirh0w held by Dr. Usha Menon, specialized in leadership strategy in the non-profit sector. A three-part course to study and explore the world of fundraising that will culminate in Bangkok with the presentation of each country's resource mobilization programs.
 

The other speakers who will be present to give training lectures are Dr. Pretesh Kiran for the day dedicated to Building resilience for health emergencies: a community-based approach; Dr. Lisa Anna Gayoles for the day dedicated to Mental health intervention in community-based disasters and Dr. Consuelo Santamaria for the Psychosocial and spiritual-pastoral approach to disaster management.