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Sep 9, 2025

World Suicide Prevention Day 2025 - starting the conversation

The theme of World Suicide Prevention Day 10 September 2025 is ‘Changing the narrative on suicide’. That means to start the coversation based on openness, empathy, and support and to avoid misconceptions.

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Sep 3, 2025

LAUNCH: New podcast series: Evidence from the Frontline: Mental Health in Crisis Affected Contexts

In this first episode of Evidence from the Frontline: Mental Health in Crisis Affected Contexts, we’ll be talking about Self-Help Plus (SH+)

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Aug 27, 2025

Regional trainings in Africa and the Americas

In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Communications Officer Jesper Guhle interviews MHPSS specialists Cátia Matos and Guleed Dualeh about the first regional MHPSS trainings conducted by the Red Cross Red Crescent MHPSS Hub.

Job opening, News
Aug 26, 2025

Vacancy: Director to lead the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub

Are you a visionary humanitarian leader with a passion for mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS)? Do you want to shape the future of MHPSS in the world’s largest humanitarian network? The Danish Red Cross, with its partners, seeks a strategic, inclusive and inspiring Director to lead the RCRC Movement MHPSS Hub - the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement’s global centre of excellence for MHPSS.

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Apr 29, 2024

Training Guide: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergencies

This MHPSS in Emergencies training aims to prepare MHPSS responders, disaster managers, and emergency team leaders for work in the field by building understanding of basic concepts of MHPSS in emergencies as well as planning and implementing PSS activities.

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Apr 23, 2024

IMPACT STUDY: The role of Psychological First Aid in the IFRC Ukraine MHPSS response

In response to the exponentially growing need to provide Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) services to people displaced from Ukraine National Societies have been committed to integrating and implementing Psychological First Aid (PFA) within their Ukraine Response to provide Psychosocial support and to ensure displaced Ukrainians receive the adequate services.

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Apr 18, 2024

Olympics.com coverage of Sport Coach+ project

Sport Coach+ is an innovative project which aims to equip 2,500 sports coaches in Ukraine and surrounding countries with the skills to more effectively manage young players who may have experienced trauma as a result of their forced displacement.

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Apr 11, 2024

STATEMENT: IFRC calls for humane implementation of the European Pact on Asylum and Migration

The IFRC has concerns. The Pact focuses on the normalization of detention and speedier processes at borders. Both are worrying. Detention damages people. Quick decisions can risk returning people who should be granted asylum. In the Pact’s implementation, EU countries must ensure the systemic use of detention is avoided at all costs, and that individuals are always treated as individuals.

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Apr 10, 2024

Past trauma and uncertainties of the future affect mental health of Ukrainians

The IFRC Psychosocial Centre is one of the partners of a project under EU4Health providing mental health and psychosocial support to Ukrainians affected by more than two years of armed conflict. The project funded by the EU is implemented in collaboration with IFRC, the European Commission’s Directorate General for Health and Food Safety, and National Red Cross Societies in Ukraine and 24 European countries.

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Mar 26, 2024

Trauma and abuse along the EU borders

In this episode Communication Officer at the IFRC PS Centre, Villads Zahle interviews Moaaz Allahham, a young Syrian man forced onto an irregular route to Europe, Maria Marga, an activist working for Collective Aid to assist people on the move at Serbia's border with the EU, and Sarah Harrison, an IFRC PS Centre expert on the pressures, stress and mental health implications of ongoing abuses along EU borders.

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Mar 13, 2024

IFRC PS Centre and ORF partner to support mental health of young Ukrainians

The Olympic Refuge Foundation (ORF) is collaborating with the IFRC Psychosocial Centre, to deliver Sport Coach+, a foundational skills training in trauma-informed coaching practice designed to reach 100,000 young people, including those affected by the displacement crisis resulting from the conflict in Ukraine.

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Mar 8, 2024

IWD 2024: Inclusion of women – all women!

The theme for International Women’s Day 2024 is to inspire the inclusion of women. In 2019, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement made a significant formal commitment to the inclusion of women through Resolution 5 – Women and leadership in the humanitarian action of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

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Mar 6, 2024

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Ukraine: Coping, Help-seeking and Health Systems Strengthening in Times of War

An Interdisciplinary Desk Review has been published by ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre and VU Amsterdam.

Job opening
Mar 4, 2024

Vacancy: Project Administrator

The IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support (PS Centre) is looking for a project administrator to join our international team in Copenhagen.

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Feb 29, 2024

The countdown has begun for the Connecting Climate Minds Global Event

On 19-21 March 2024 Connecting Climate Minds stakeholders will come together in person in Barbados to finalise the Global Research and Action Agenda, and celebrate the communities that have been built during the past year’s tremendous work undertaken by the Regional Communities of Practices, Lived Experience Working Group, the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and Imperial’s Climate Cares Centre.

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Feb 22, 2024

New report: Two years on: mental health and psychosocial support needs in Ukraine and affected countries

Since the escalation of the armed conflict in Ukraine on 24 February 2022 more than 10 million people have been forcibly displaced internally or to other countries and millions depend on humanitarian aid...

The Red Cross Red Crescent (RCRC) Movement MHPSS Hub (MHPSS Hub) is dedicated to advancing mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) throughout the RCRC Movement. Hosted by the Danish Red Cross, the Hub collaborates with National Societies, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), as well as international humanitarian organisations and academic institutions. By uniting expertise from across the Movement and beyond, we help build stronger, more resilient communities better equipped to cope with crises and recover from adversity.