This compendium helps practitioners in humanitarian contexts select a measure for assessing the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of children. It provides details of 48 assessment measures and approaches that have been used in different contexts and guidance to select which is relevant. For each measure it presents: an overview/description; information about with whom and for what the assessment is suitable; examples of use; restrictions in use; and where it is available from. A decision-making guide in the form of a flow chart is provided at the end of the compendium to assist the process of matching the measurement approach to context and requirements.

A Compendium of Tools for the Assessment of the Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing of Children in the Context of Humanitarian Emergencies 

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

MHPSS

Guidelines for Programming and Assessment

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).