The toolkit is designed to facilitate support for children, parents/caregivers and teachers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, but may be useful for anyone, anywhere, and any time. Guide for Teachers: This Guide has been designed for teachers supporting children in their return to school in the wake of the pandemic. It opens with a set […]
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This booklet has been developed for parents and caregivers and is designed to provide guidance and inspiration around psychosocial wellbeing in the household in the face of challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. It features six fictional families from different corners of the world who are facing challenges in their lives in the course of […]
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This systematic review includes literature related to mental health interventions for refugee or asylum-seeking children that have been conducted in school or community settings, including refugee camps. The review outlines principles, quality and effectiveness of the interventions included. Key considerations for interventions are discussed. […]
The toolkit is designed to facilitate support for children, parents/caregivers and teachers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, but may be useful for anyone, anywhere, and any time. Activity Guide: This Guide for Teachers, Parents and Children features fun activities for children at home, in school or for remote use. In a home learning environment, for […]
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” 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. […]
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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The PFA for Children II: Dealing with Traumatic Responses in Children training manual provides guidance for staff working with children who are severely affected psychologically by acute crisis. It is a supplementary training to Save the Children’s Psychological First Aid Training for Child Practitioners (2013), which lays the foundation for providing PFA. In some situations, […]
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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 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 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. […]
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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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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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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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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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 […]
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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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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