This manual aims at improving the overall wellbeing of children through strengthening the psychosocial skills of the adults working with them. Part One contains training modules for developing a psychosocial approach, comprising nine personal and social skills, fundamental for any adult helping vulnerable children, whatever the field of intervention may be. The second part is about managing psychosocial activities and games and includes specific methodological and technical skills for facilitators setting up psychosocial activities with children. Assessment indicators are suggested for each of these skills. The Annexes contain further training tools and follow up tools.


Working with children and their environment. Manual of psychosocial skills

Working with Children and their Environment: Manual of Psychosocial Skills

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 & Education 

Skills Building and Training Packages

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).