A Hopeful, Healthy, and Happy Living and Learning Toolkit’ is a series of tools 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.
This toolkit includes the following three resources:
- The Guide for Teachers
- The Parent-Caregiver Guide
- The Activity Guide for Teachers, Parents and Children
PS Centre Technical Advisor Ea Suzanne Akasha, is a co-author of these resources along with Mark Kucklow, a clinical psychologist splitting his time between clinical and counselling work with children and youth and consultancy work focused around child protection and MHPSS, and Jonathan Morgan, a clinical psychologist in public practice.
The toolkit was developed by the PS Centre, REPSSI and APSSI with support from MHPSS.net and funding from Education Cannot Wait.
Material for teachers is built around several different themes where teachers can pick and choose different exercises that they then can use and integrate in their day-to-day teaching in class. The idea of the outcome is that children learn to manage their feelings, they learn to manage what they have learned during corona, and they learn how to handle challenges so they can have better and more hopeful lives.
