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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+)

News
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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Sep 13, 2023

First Aid app - now with a PFA component

The app gives instant access to critical information for handling the most common first aid emergencies and safety tips for crisis situations. The app includes a chapter on Psychological First Aid, provided by the PS Centre Technical Advisors.

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Sep 6, 2023

The Well-being Guide as activity cards

The PS Centre has released the Well-being Guide: reduce stress, recharge and build inner resilience as a deck of activity cards to be used for individual self-care, for peers, and teams who work together. Each card presents actions to try for a desired outcome like calming down or navigating anxiety.

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Aug 23, 2023

Heartbeat of Humanity: Caring for staff and volunteers

In the latest podcast from the PS Centre, MHPSS Technical Advisor Arz Stephan interviews IFRC PS Centre Director Nana Wiedeman about the importance and challenges of caring for the carers.

Job opening
Aug 13, 2023

We are looking for a fundraising and partnership advisor

Responding to incoming requests for MHPSS during wildfires, the PS Centre has released a one-page guide on providing psychosocial support to people in distress during unfolding crisis situations.

News, Webinar
Aug 9, 2023

Webinar: Creating Access to Mental Health & Psychosocial Support across the Continuum of Care by the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement

This webinar will introduce how the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement addresses MHPSS needs of individuals, families, and communities through joint collaboration and coordination. From Ukraine to Iraq, discover the approaches National Societies apply to provide complementary services.

News
Aug 8, 2023

Heartbeat of Humanity: Creating access to mental health & psychosocial support across the continuum of care

In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, PS Centre' Project Officer Veronika Dietz interviews Dr Sarah Miller, Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and the Program Coordinator in charge of MHPSS at ICRC and Louise Kryger, psychologist and the MHPSS lead in the International Department of the Danish Red Cross, on establishing availability and opportunity for accessing MHPSS services throughout the entire range of healthcare services and interventions.

News
Jul 26, 2023

New one-page psychosocial support guide for people in distress

Responding to incoming requests for MHPSS during wildfires, the PS Centre has released a one-page guide on providing psychosocial support to people in distress during unfolding crisis situations.

News
Jul 17, 2023

New thematic review on MHPSS in Afghanistan

Four decades of war, political upheaval, economic deprivation, and forced displacement have had a significant and negative impact on Afghan populations.

News
Jul 17, 2023

Heartbeat of Humanity: Are we doing the right things - and are we doing them right?

In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, IFRC Psychosocial Centre Communications Officer Jesper Guhle interviews Mental Health and Psychosocial Health Specialist, Rebecca Horn, on her recent evaluation of the functions and activities of the PS Centre.

News
Jul 6, 2023

Are we doing the right things - and are we doing them right?

The last seven years' activities and functions of the PS Centre have been reviewed and evaluated by an independent consultant, Rebecca Horn. The 80-page Evaluation Report was finalized earlier this year, and now a summary of key challenges and achievements is available.

News
Jul 5, 2023

The PS Centre shares 2022 Annual Report

2022 proved to be the PS Centre's busiest year. The combined force of emerging and sustained humanitarian conflicts, food crisis, inflation, and the devastating consequences of a seemingly unstoppable climate change as well as a still-lingering global pandemic, created unprecedented uncertainty and a huge demand for mental health and psychosocial support. The PS Centre received more requests for support from National Societies and other MHPSS stakeholders than at any time before.

News
Jun 22, 2023

Heartbeat of Humanity: The links between MHPSS and caring for staff and volunteers

In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, IFRC Psychosocial Centre Technical Advisor Arz Stephan interviews Guleed Dualeh, MHPSS Technical Advisor, on how to ensure carer for staff and volunteers, including caring for staff and volunteer training-workshops, self-care, the buddy-system, trust and confidentiality.

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.