A Race to Help

You can think of any other role/situation you want/fits in your group of players. 

This game is part of the toolkit ‘Facing trauma - A toolkit on trauma-informed support for children and youth’. This toolkit is a cooperation between StreetSmart, Minor-Ndako, Save the Children Romania & SolidarityNow, cofinanced by the European Union. It provides simple tools to explore important topics like trauma, stress, self-care and emotions in a way that’s easy to use with different target groups.

This game is the fourth game of a package of games/activities to introduce children to Psychological First Aid. If you decide to play all the games as a package, it is highly recommended to make an introduction about PFA to the children, underlining the three basic steps of PFA: observe, listen, do/link. The four games/activities of the package are based on those 3 basic steps. The games/activities of the package are:

1. The Great Observer
2. Conversational Chaos
3. Supportive Flowers
4. A Race to Help

If you want more information about PFA you can find in the links below: 

• https://pscentre.org/resource/a-guide-to-psychological-first-aid-for-red-cross-red-crescent-societies/
• https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241548205
• https://www.nctsn.org/resources/psychological-first-aid-pfa-field-operations-guide-2nd-edition
• https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/psychological-first-aid-guide-field-workers-2/

Of course, you can find even more information about this topic with a simple search online. 

• With young players you can role play one situation at a time and discuss it all together. 
• To make the activity more advanced, divide the players in a way that the team of helpers is smaller than the other team, so they have to decide in which situation to help first. 
• If you are with many facilitators, you can role-play the help situations and only the players are the team of helpers.