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Anywhere But Syria: How 10 Years of Conflict Left Syria’s Displaced Children Without a Sense of Home
Being forced to flee your home is a life-changing event that often results in negative impacts that persist long after the conflict or disaster that triggered it has ended. To support progress towards a safe and fulfilling future for displaced children, S
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Mental Health Matters: Protect children's well-being in Hong Kong
This report is a component of a larger research initiative by Save the Children Hong Kong, assessing the changing dynamics of Hong Kong children’s most significant needs for support. The report examines the current mental health needs for children in Hong
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Lugna, Lyssna, Stärk: Psykologisk första hjälp för barn i akut kris
Lugna, lyssna, stärk är en vägledning för hur du som vuxen kan stötta barn efter allvarliga händelser i samhället. Den ger konkreta råd och tips på hur du kan möta barn i kris. Rädda Barnen arbetar för att fler vuxna ska få större kunskap om krisstöd, för
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Five Years of Fear and Loss: The devastating impact of war on the mental health of Yemen’s children
Over the past five years, the war in Yemen has had a devastating impact on the children in Yemen, including on their mental health. Save the Children interviewed over 1,250 children, parents and other adult caregivers across three governorates in Yemen in
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Living in Chains: Shackling of people with psychosocial disabilities worldwide
Hundreds of thousands of people, both adult and children around the globe with mental health conditions have been shackled at least once in their lives. Inadequate support and mental health services, as well as stigma concerning people with psychosocial d
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Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Cross-Sectoral Strategic Framework in Humanitarian Settings
This strategy has been developed with the purpose to lift the scale and quality of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) programming in order to promote and respond to critical gaps concerning Save the Children’s response to children’s mental he
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Road to Recovery: Responding to children's mental health in conflict
The briefing paper sets out the scale of mental health effects on children living in conflict zones and the role of education in responding to them. Latest figures reveal that 142 million children are living in high intensity conflict zones. As set out in
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Manual on Community-Based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergencies and Displacement
This Manual aims to facilitate mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) experts and managers in designing, implementing and evaluating community-based MHPSS (CB MHPSS) programmes, projects and activities for emergency-affected and displaced populati
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A Decade of Distress: The harsh and unchanging reality for children living in the Gaza Strip
Children and young people in Gaza live in economic hardship, under the threat of further conflict and with little opportunity of escape. This report describes a research project undertaken in 2018, led by Save the Children’s mental health professionals, t
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Implications of not Addressing Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Needs in Conflict Situations
This review examines the potential implications of not addressing mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) needs resulting from conflict throughout the life course, including on longer term mental and physical health, communities and families (inclu
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Healing and Recovering Through Education in Emergencies
Humanitarian emergencies and protracted crises currently affect millions of children around the world with serious consequences for their ability to learn, grow and develop. Children are especially vulnerable in conflict situations to “toxic stress”, with
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FRESH School Health and Nutrition (SHN) Webinar: Programming for Children's Social and Emotional Well-being- Lessons from Iraq- September 2019
What is social-emotional learning and how does it happen in schools in Iraq? How do we measure children's social and emotional skills and well-being in emergency and tenuous environments? What tools can we use to evaluate the effect of social-emotional le