Manual for the Integration of Child Care Practices and Mental Health within Nutrition Programs

ACF produced this technical guideline to support missions and partners in the development of programs that integrate Mental Health and Child Care Practices within nutrition. This technical guide offers a set of concrete actions and practical orientations to enhance the necessity of combining prevention and treatment of severe malnutrition with mental health and child care practices. The most basic child care practices program forms an integral part of malnutrition treatment, in which attitudes, words, organization and implementation of specific programs all come into play at each step.

This manual is designed as a toolkit that provides user with key steps on how to integrate child care practices and mental health within nutrition.

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