This training guide is designed for trainers to train facilitators and teachers who will be involved in conducting psychosocial support activities in Child Friendly Spaces, schools or other community areas. It is designed to accompany the Facilitators’ Manual (see Linked Resources section). 

The training guide is divided into different sections: instructions for facilitators; an introduction to child protection and psychosocial support;  activities for children aged 6-10 and 11-14; activities for adolescents aged 15-17 and children of all ages; activities with school children and caregivers; monitoring and evaluation. Handouts are included at the end.


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 

Trainers Guide for Training on the Facilitators Guide – To train facilitators and teachers working in Child friendly spaces, Communities and Schools 

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

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.