This manual provides organizations and schools with practical and high-quality psychosocial support tools to improve the quality of psychosocial support services that they offer to children and caregivers. 
It is divided into the following sections: instructions for facilitators; activities for children aged 6-10; activities for children aged 11-4; activities for adolescents aged 15-17; activities for children of all ages; activities for parents/caregivers; activities for school children; and monitoring and evaluation tools. There is a Trainer’s Guide accompanying this Manual (see Linked Resources section).



Trainers Guide – To train facilitators and teachers working in Child Friendly Spaces, Communities and Schools 

Facilitator’s Manual for Psychosocial Support Activities in Child Friendly Spaces, Communities and Schools – for Children, Adolescents and School Children Aged 6-10, 11-14 & 15-17 and their Caregivers 

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). 

MHPSS and EIE

Child Friendly Spaces

The Mapping and Assessment (M&A) Report Repository is a searchable collection of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) needs assessments, mappings, and desk reviews that have been conducted in humanitarian settings. 

Marcio Gagliato

Mapping and Assessment Report Repository

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).

Ananda Galappatti

Community-Based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Resource Collection

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

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

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.