ATOP Meaningfulworld Mental Health Outreach Project goes to Haiti Jan 2010 – Press release As most of us have undoubtedly heard and seen the catastrophic effect of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck the nation of Haiti on January 12, 2010, which has debilitated the country leaving over 200,000 dead, thousands injured, and 1.5 million… Continue reading >>
From Meaningfulworld Mission to Sierra Leone “Smile for Sierra Leone …as they smile for you, despite their tragedy.” Dr. Ani Kalayjian, Founder ATOP Walking through the streets of Freetown, Bo, Gobaru, & Pujehun in Sierra Leone one witnesses the horrors of the evil war from 1987-2000 which resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, houses… Continue reading >>
Meaningfulworld & ATOP Sponsor a Child In Armenia Project: Partnership with the Fund for Armenian Relief (FAR) Children in Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, and Pakistan are also waiting ATOP created a partnership with FAR (The Fund For Armenian Relief) to assist in bringing early identification systems/ preventive care initiatives into place. The mission of FAR… Continue reading >>
Press Release June 2008 New York, NY: The Association for Trauma Outreach and Prevention (ATOP) has organized the second team of the Mental Health Outreach Project (MHOP) in Armenia from June 12- 22. Dr. Ani Kalayjian and Ani Jilozian, President and Public Relations Coordinator for ATOP, respectively, will be delivering this mission to Armenia. They… Continue reading >>
Association for Trauma Outreach & Prevention (ATOP) Mental Health Outreach Projects (MHOP) Below is a list of Mental Helath Outreach Projects and post disaster healing, conflict transformation, training of mental health professionals, peace building, menatal health policy development, and reseach projects. 2008 Darfur, Sudan Post war and HIV (Planning) (Human-made) 2008 The Republic Of Armenia Second team of… Continue reading >>
Title: Generational Impact of Mass Trauma of Genocide Date: October 30, 2007 Time: 16:00 Place: Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI), Komitas Hall E-mail: info@genocide-museum.am Lecturer: Ani Kalayjian Ph.D Description: The attempted destruction of the Armenian people by the Ottoman Turkish Government from 1895-1923 not only cost one-and-a-half million Armenian lives but created massive trauma for many… Continue reading >>
Dr. Ani Kalayjian and Crystal Barry Click here or on the above image to view more photos The Association for Trauma Outreach and Prevention’s (ATOP) first Mental Health Outreach Project (MHOP) team, invited by the Lebanese Psychological Association (LPA) as well as the American University of Beirut (AUB), arrived safely in Lebanon on May 15th. … Continue reading >>
This important and exciting joint Armenian-Turkish project, entitled “Imagining the Future: Armenian and Turkish Artists in Dialogue” will be coming soon to New York This project will be a show of leading, world-class Armenian and Turkish artists. Our goal in doing so is to represent the common cultural and artistic concerns of Armenia and Turkey… Continue reading >>
The Mental Health Outreach Program (MHOP), organized by the Association for Trauma Outreach and Prevention (ATOP) which was formerly known as the Association for Disaster & Mass Trauma Studies, is a not-for-profit (501c3) organization, spearheaded by trauma expert Dr. Ani Kalayjian. The MHOP is a disaster relief project that has been recruiting teams of professional… Continue reading >>
On October 8. 2005, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 on the moment monitor scale struck the northeastern region of Pakistan. Wikipedia reported that entire villages and roads were buried by landslides in the North-West Frontier Province and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The destruction of the earthquake was even felt in India and Afghanistan. Because of… Continue reading >>
