This manual is designed to assist facilitators and service providers in applying the minimum standards for psychosocial support (PSS) programs in Child-Friendly Spaces (CFS). It supports learning about psychological health programs and the principles of psychosocial health. 

It builds the skills needed to strengthen the capacity of children and adolescents to express their concerns and emotions, and stresses the importance of children’s and adolescent’s role in the evaluation process as direct beneficiaries. It aims to provide participants with the skills necessary to mobilize families and communities in the Child Friendly Spaces (CFS) programs and other centres and institutions dealing with children.


Psychosocial Support for Children and Adolescents in Emergency Settings – Sudan 

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

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.

Marcio Gagliato

Emergency

Ananda Galappatti

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).