The I DEAL manual pack is designed to help children and adolescents deal with life after armed conflict. It is a theme-based creative life skills training for children and adolescents. I DEAL is designed for use with children between 11 and 15 years old. The manual pack is for facilitators: staff conducting interventions at community level. and It addresses the following themes: Identity and Assessment, Dealing with Emotions, Peer Relations, Relations with Adults, Rights and Responsibilities, Prejudice and Stigmatization, Conflict and Peace, and Future.

For each theme, a module is developed, which consists of 2 to 5 sessions. Sessions are presented as session plans, which include various exercises. Through I DEAL, children are invited to discover their identity and to cope with emotions of love and hate. It aims to help (re)define the child as an individual, preparing for a future.


I DEAL Programme

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

Conflict

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).