Community-based approaches to Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (CB MHPSS) in emergencies are based on the understanding that communities can be drivers for their own care and change and should be meaningfully involved in all stages of MHPSS responses.... Read more
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This folder contains the supplementary resources to the manual including PowerPoint presentation, handouts and additional activities available through IFRC’s Psychosocial centre site. ‘Lay counselling: A trainer’s manual’, developed by IFRC’s Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support, together with three European... Read more
Toolkit and Training manual are designed to assist organizations and National Societies with supporting volunteer wellbeing after a crisis, conflict or disaster. Elements include peer support, psychological first aid, communication, and preparing for crisis in order to care for... Read more
Training Manual has been developed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support (the PS Centre) as a result of increasing requests for trainings on how to provide proper care and support... Read more
This folder contains the PowerPoint presentations for the training workshops. A training tool designed to build knowledge and skills of staff and volunteers, and build the capacities of National Societies to support psychosocial wellbeing in beneficiaries and in volunteers... Read more
The DEALS are a set of life skills courses aimed at enhancing resilience in children and young people. Coping skills are taught through discussions and creative activities. Themes include: Identity, dealing with emotions and conflict, peer and adult relations,... Read more
I DEAL is a life skills intervention that combines creative activities with games and group discussions to build the resilience and improve the coping skills of children and young people to better ‘deal’ with their daily lives. The intervention... Read more
Guidelines are intended for local and international staff operating nutrition programs in emergencies. The document explains why early childhood development activities need to be included in nutrition programs, and provides suggestions for activities and steps needed, as well as... Read more
Games were developed to teach life skills to children as well as foster resilience and self-protection. The manual also explains the psychosocial and protection related benefits of games for children, as well as explaining the lessons from each game... Read more
The Terre des hommes Child Protection Psychosocial Training Manual has been developed for use in the field in order to train animators who work with children and other child protection programme staff. It has been written in response to... Read more