The Safe Healing and Learning Space Toolkit provides frontline humanitarian staff with practical implementation guidance, adaptable sample tools, comprehensive training materials, and scripted instructional content. Resources are provided for a 9-month program, and are applicable in both rural and urban areas, based on locally-defined needs and priorities.

This toolkit was developed to help child protection and education teams facilitate spaces in emergencies where children can learn, grow, and feel safe. The toolkit prepares practitioners to set up a Safe Healing and Learning Space (SHLS) and includes targeted training to deliver: social and emotional learning; foundational academic skills - reading and maths; and promote positive parenting.

The SHLS Approach overview component contains a Manager’s Guide, providing step-by-step guidance and adaptable tools for education and child-protection professionals to set up, monitor and evaluate the implementation of an SHLS in an emergency context. It also contains a Foundational Training Trainer’s Manual and Trainee’s Handbook.

The Social and Emotional Learning component contains a Trainer’s Manual, Trainee Handbook, Lesson Plan Bank and Games Bank.

The Parenting Skills component contains a Trainer’s Manual, Curriculum for Caregivers of Children and Curriculum for Caregivers of Adolescents.

For further details of the Reading and Maths components and additional resources see the full package.

Some components are available on the site in: Arabic, Dari, French, Greek, Pashtu.