This systematic review evaluates community-based mental health interventions aimed at reducing mental health concerns for refugee children and adolescent who are living in high-income countries. This review includes many types of studies but specifically looks at the results from randomized control trials (RCTs). The effectiveness of the interventions is evaluated and the insight the review […]
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The Children’s Resilience Programme. Understanding Children’s Wellbeing.
The children’s resilience programme recognises that children’s wellbeing is influenced by their interaction with their parents and caregivers, their peers and with others in their community environment. The programme therefore covers all these areas of children’s lives to help improve their wellbeing and their resilience. This booklet can be used as a stand-alone resource or […]
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The Scientific Self-Literacy of Ordinary People: Scientific Dialogic Gatherings
This article presents dialogues between researchers and lay people of low socioeconomic status and low educational level on the social impact of a Scientific Dialogic Gathering (SDG) as a tool for promoting scientific self-literacy that is being developed at an urban adult school in Spain. […]
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Believers, Attractiveness and Values
this study explores the potential of dialogic interreligious gatherings (DIGs) focused on sacred books to enhance the attractiveness of key values such as love, kindness, humility, and generosity. These spaces are grounded in strong principles that guarantee the freedom of participants. […]
Youth Resilience Programmes for children aged 14 and above
The Youth Resilience Programme: Psychosocial support in and out of school has been developed by Save the Children as an independent continuation of the Children’s Resilience Programme. The programme is a nonclinical psychosocial and protection methodology and framed within the concept of ‘I AM’, ‘I CAN’ and ‘I HAVE’ to capture the complex interaction of […]
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The Adolescent Kit for Expression and Innovation
The Adolescent Kit for Expression and Innovation is a package of guidance, tools, activities, and supplies to support adolescents ages 10-18, especially those who are affected by humanitarian crises. The Kit aims to bring about positive change in adolescents’ lives through arts and innovation. The activities offer adolescents the chance to express themselves, experiment, solve […]
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Singing to the Lions: A facilitator’s guide to overcoming fear and violence in our lives
Singing to the Lions is a training manual based on proven psycho-therapeutic interventions that help children and youth overcome fear and violence in their lives. It targets children ages 11+, however, adaptations are easily made for younger and older groups, including adults. […]
Working with children and their environment: Manual of psychosocial skills
The ‘Working with children and their environment: Manual of psychosocial skills’ aims at improving the overall wellbeing of children through strengthening the psychosocial skills of the adults in charge, all the while passing on effective methods and tools (games and creative activities) for working with children. […]
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Psychological First Aid Module 3: PFA for Children
The Psychological First Aid Module 3: PFA for Children is for training people working with children on how to provide Psychological First Aid (PFA). The training has been developed for staff and volunteers working with psychosocial support for children and those providing direct care and support to children and their caregivers in distress. […]
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Traditional Games for Child Protection Manual
The Traditional Games for Child Protection manual collates 20 traditional games which are organized by age group, and teach life skills to children to foster resilience and selfprotection. It uses the Movement, Games and Sports (MGS) methodology which champions ‘learning by doing’ and puts child participation at the heart of the learning process. The manual […]
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P.O.W.E.R. Play Opportunities for Wellness and Education Ressource
The Play Opportunities for Wellness and Education Resource (P.O.W.E.R.) is a collection of 100 gender-responsive play-based learning activities created to support parents, teachers, coaches, social workers and others to promote children’s learning and development. The 100 games are available as animated videos and short PDF manuals. They support girls and boys to develop holistic life […]
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Parenting on the Move
The Parenting on the Move (PoM) programme package has been developed to support families to provide the necessary conditions for well-being, resilience, and education of children up to 12 years of age, in situations of migration/refugeehood. The programme has three components: parent workshops, family workshops (led by trained moderators), and materials for activities that parents […]
Social-Emotional Learning Intervention Games Bank
This resource brings more than 60 ideas for games that can be used by educators to support social-emotional learning. This resource is to be used by Facilitators to deliver the SEL Games as part of the SEL Intervention in a Safe Healing and Learning Space (SHLS). These games are to be used in conjunction with […]
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Fun, Safe, Inclusive: A half day module on facilitation skills
This manual has been specifically developed by Save the Children in response to requests from the field to provide a short training module on facilitating programmes for children. It can be used as a stand-alone training tool or as part of a comprehensive training on psychosocial and resiliencepromoting activities for children, adults and families. […]
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The Children’s Resilience Programme. Facilitator Handbook 1. Getting Started.
The children’s resilience programme aims to enhance the psychosocial wellbeing and protection of children. The programme recognises the key role of parents and other caregivers, teachers and community providers and seeks to equip them in the care and protection of the children in their communities. Children’s resilience programmes can be run in schools or in […]
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Caring for Children through Conflict and Displacement
The Caring for Children through Conflict and Displacement booklet gives tips to caregivers who have lived through war and conflict and forced to leave their homes. The booklet aims to help caregivers by giving some ideas on how they can help themself feel better, and how they can help their children. […]
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The Children’s Resilience Programme. Facilitator Handbook 2. Workshop tracks.
The children’s resilience programme aims to enhance the psychosocial wellbeing and protection of children. The programme recognises the key role of parents and other caregivers, teachers and community providers and seeks to equip them in the care and protection of the children in their communities. Children’s resilience programmes can be run in schools or in […]
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Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing of Adolescents Affected by Conflict
This course is designed for practitioners who work on programmes that target or include adolescents and their caregivers affected by the war in Ukraine. This course aims to increase your understanding of adolescent development, focusing on their mental health and psychosocial wellbeing. […]
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The Children’s Resilience Programme. Programme Management Training.
The aim of the training is to give participants an understanding of how to set-up, implement and manage the children’s resilience programme and how to use the resource kit. Participants will be introduced to the children’s resilience programme, psychosocial support and child protection and get an understanding of how activities in the children’s resilience programme […]
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MHPSS in & through Education in Emergencies (EiE)
This course looks at how Education in Emergencies (EiE) programmes can incorporate activities to actively tackle the potential psychological and emotional distress experienced by teachers and students in emergency situations. […]
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Child Friendly Spaces in Humanitarian Settings
Child friendly Spaces (CFS) are interventions used by humanitarian agencies to increase children’s access to safe environments and promote their psychosocial well-being. Some CFS programmes may focus on informal education or other needs related to children. However, all CFS try to provide a safe place where children can come together to play, relax, express themselves, […]
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Safe Healing and Learning Spaces Toolkit
A Safe Healing and Learning Space (SHLS) is a secure, caring and predictable place where children and adolescents living in conflict and crisis settings can learn, develop and be protected. The toolkit covers the SHLS approach, Social Emotional Learning, Basic math and reading skills for children, and Parenting skills. […]
I Support My Friends
“I Support My Friends” is peer to peer psychological first aid that is specifically adapted for training children and adolescents (9-17 years old) to support their friends in distress, under the mentorship and guidance of trusted adults. […]
Psychological First Aid Training Manual for Child Practitioners
The Save the Children Psychological First Aid Training Manual for Child Practitioners is a set of skills and competences that help staff reduce the initial distress of children caused by accidents, natural disasters, conflicts and other critical incidents. Although the overall focus in this training manual is on children, the training also contains activities on […]
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