The manual to facilitate training in psychological first aid with a focus on children. The training programme develops skills for providing physical and emotional comfort by modelling calmness and enables a constructive format through active listening that allows children in distress to voice their concerns and needs. It also helps to connect children in distress to practical assistance through referral networks and information on positive coping strategies. This material also covers support to caregivers. Available in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish.

Psychological First Aid Training Manual for Child Practitioners

This toolkit is a compilation of a range of several practice guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) in humanitarian contexts, to enable easy access to key multi-lingual resources.

Emergency

Programme Implementation

Psychological First Aid Guides

Marcio Gagliato

The MHPSS and EiE Toolkit offers access to key documents and resources of relevance to those working in the fields of Education in Emergencies (EiE) and of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS). 

Ananda Galappatti

MHPSS and EIE

The IASC Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for MHPSS Programmes was released for field test in 2017. In 2021, the Common Framework was updated to include qualitative and quantitative means of verification (MoV) for impact-level indicators in the framework. MHPSS.net developed the IASC MHPSS M&E Framework MoV toolkit to accompany the framework and serve as a resource to maintain and disseminate these tools in a single, easy to use format.

IASC MHPSS M&E FRAMEWORK MOV

The Children and Families MHPSS Resource Collection offers access to a wide range of key materials that are relevant to mental health and psychosocial support work with children and families across humanitarian and development settings.

The Children and Families Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Resource Collection

This collection offers access to key guidance, manuals, tools, case studies and other resources related to the use of Community-Based approaches to Mental Health and psychosocial Support (CB-MHPSS).