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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.

News
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.

News
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.

News
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.

News
May 22, 2023

Two new one-pagers for staff and volunteers supporting people searching for their missing family members

During and after emergencies, people go missing. Recognizing the significance of supporting people in search of their missing loved ones, the PS Centre has published two new one-pagers that provide guidance on supporting families.

News, Webinar
May 22, 2023

New webinar series on self-care for staff and volunteers working with Restoring Family Links

News
May 16, 2023

Implementing the MHPSS Policy and Roadmap at the Colombian Red Cross

News, Webinar
Mar 29, 2023

Webinar: Well-being for Staff and Volunteers

Tune in for a webinar on well-being for staff and volunteers. The webinar will introduce the PS Centre Well-being Guide: reduce stress, recharge and build inner resilience, have participants try out the exercise, and engage in dialouge with other MHPSS practitioners.

News
Mar 21, 2023

Three new training manuals

The PS Centre has released three publications addressing the need for MHPSS tools and guidance in Ukraine and surrounding countries.

Job opening, News
Mar 20, 2023

Vacancy: MHPSS Technical Advisor

News
Mar 9, 2023

Heartbeat of Humanity: Mental health and psychosocial support in Eastern Africa

In this podcast of Heartbeat of Humanity, Communications Officer, Trine, interviews Guleed Dualeh, MHPSS Technical Advisor for the African Region and Psychological First Aid focal point, on Guleed's recent trip to Kenya, where he sat down with Red Cross MHPSS focal points for Kenya and South Sudan to talk about challenges and achievements of working with mental health in the Eastern African context.

News
Mar 6, 2023

Türkiye and Syria one month on: A mental health ticking time bomb

Nearly one month since two devastating earthquakes struck Türkiye and Syria, IFRC warns of the urgent need of a sustainable short- and long-term response to the health and mental health and psychosocial needs to prevent a “second disaster”.

News
Feb 28, 2023

There are no 'natural' disasters

Often when we talk about ‘natural disasters’ there can be an underlying belief that there is nothing we could have done to prevent calamity. But there are many things we can do and much we have learned from disasters of the past.

Job opening, News
Feb 27, 2023

Vacancy: Research Consultancy

From the MHPSS Roadmap Project, Working Group 4 are inviting candidates to apply for a Research Consultancy to take place between April 202

News
Feb 24, 2023

One year on: The impact on the mental health of people affected inside and outside of Ukraine is growing

The IFRC Membership in Europe is running its biggest mental health response in history as over 6 million people have been affected by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict - and the need for more mental health and psychosocial support is growing.

News
Feb 22, 2023

Heartbeat of Humanity: One year into the conflict - The MHPSS needs of Ukrainians and the Red Cross response

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.