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Aug 26, 2024

Psychological First Aid Camp for Children in Gaza – A Moment of Safety in a Dire Reality

Khan Yunis in the Southern Gaza strip has been the scene of intense bombardments and violence and Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has introduced a new way of supporting the children exposed.

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Aug 23, 2024

Mental health and the climate crisis

In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, MHPSS Technical Advisor Shona Whitton talks to Ana Mejia about mental health and the climate crisis. Ana Mejia is a former member of the Youth Advisory Group of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, and a volunteer from the Ecuadorian Red Cross. Ana leads a Mental Health and Psychosocial Support team in the local Red Cross branch and she recently started to work as a consultant with the health team of the Red Cross Climate Centre.

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Aug 19, 2024

World Humanitarian Day: Remembering the Lost and Caring for the Living

On 19th October 2024 the IFRC, the UN and key humanitarian actors, are calling for an end to these violations of human principles and international law. The IFRC do so under the plea “Protect Humanity!” As the IFRC Psychosocial Centre we join that call because we know that too many of our colleagues across the globe have paid the highest price doing exactly that – protecting humanity.

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Aug 15, 2024

Disaster preparedness and disaster resilience

In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, MHPSS Technical Advisor Shona Whitton talks to John Richardson about disaster preparedness, disaster resilience and disaster risk reduction. And why it is a problem calling fires, floods and storms ‘natural disasters’.

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May 7, 2024

Report: Navigating the climate crisis: Mental health and well-being

This report covers a high-level overview of the climate-related mental health risks as identified by the consulted National Societies. Firstly, at risk population groups are highlighted and implications for the work of IFRC staff and volunteers are addressed. Secondly, examples of initiatives from National Societies are showcased to illustrate potential pathways to addressing the mental health and psychosocial challenges arising from the climate crisis.

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May 6, 2024

Presenting Training Guide on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergencies

In this episode Communication Officer at the IFRC PS Centre, Villads Zahle interviews emergency expert and MHPSS technical advisor, Shona Whitton about the newly published Training Guide on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergencies. Shona outlines the potential of the new guide in the context of her professional experiences in emergencies and the mental health implications for exposed individuals and communities.

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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.

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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.

The IFRC Psychosocial Centre (PS Centre) contributes knowledge and provides service to the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. It assists in facilitating mental health and psychosocial support, promotes psychosocial wellbeing for affected groups, staff and volunteers, and increases awareness of psychological reactions in times of crisis or social disruption.

The PS Centre is hosted and supported by Danish Red Cross. It receives financial support from a number of National Societies, institutional and private donors including the European Commission and DANIDA.