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WEBINAR ALERT 💥🌏 #MHPSS, Climate-related Hazards and Disaster Risk Management: Methods, Tools and Approaches to Protect and Promote You and Your Community’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Before, During and After Climate-related Hazards. Date 📅 12 November 2024 at 12:00 UTC Register 🔗 https://bit.ly/3YPyQAo Organised by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) MHPSS Reference Group’s Thematic Working Group on DRR and Climate Crisis. This is the first in a series of webinars featuring a diverse panel of speakers including Katie Hayes, PhD, Ananda Galappatti, Ashley Nemiro, PhD Brandon Gray, PhD Davide Ziveri, Mita Rani Roy Chowdhury and Mohammad Nawrooz Ibrahimi.

🌏📣 World Health Summit Panel: Addressing the Mental Health Burden In and After Crises'. 🔗 Watch here: https://lnkd.in/gWgCN9hX The panel was moderated by MHPSS.net co-director & founder Ananda Galappatti with BMZ Parliamentary Secretary Niels Annen, Hon. Minister Khumbize Chiponda, Ahmad Helmi, Zeinab Hijazi (MSc, PsyD), Mark van Ommeren & Valentyna Mazhbits This high-level panel brings together affected individuals, humanitarian and development workers, researchers, and policy makers to discuss mental health needs in the context of humanitarian health, exchange cross-country experiences, and explore which support and systemic changes are required to meet mental health needs and “see the unseen”.

SURVEY 📣🌏 “Understanding the landscape of psychological and social interventions for anxiety, depression, and psychosis” If you are willing to participate, please do so via this link: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gcW4n457 The survey is undertaken by colleagues at Queen Margaret University and MHPSS.net on behalf of Wellcome Trust. This initiative will inform Wellcome’s actions in the coming years to invest in the development of psychological and social interventions for these specific conditions. As such, it is critical to engage diverse stakeholders for the project, including funders, developers, implementers, policymakers, and people with lived experience (PLE), across the six global World Health Organization (WHO) regions. This survey is one of several components feeding into the landscape mapping component of the project (see overview below). The key objectives of the project include 👇 1. Mapping the landscape of psychological and social interventions for depression, anxiety and psychosis, including consideration of available evidence and diverse stakeholder perspectives. 2. Identifying and critically analysing promising interventions in the above space to identify those interventions and research areas where further research may be most impactful. The project is organised into two main parts, all of which aim to be inclusive and geographically representative (focused on the six main WHO regions).

VACANCY 🌏 Mental Health Director (Full-Time) 📅 Closing date: 24th September 2024 🔗 Learn more: https://shorturl.at/6woKN *This role can be based in any CBM Global Office. Applications are therefore encouraged from those with the right to work in: Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Indonesia, Kenya, Lao PDR, Madagascar, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, Zimbabwe, as well as Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Ireland, and the UK. More information about CBM Global Disability Inclusion can be found by visiting the CBM Global website: www.cbm-global.org

EVENT 📣 Transforming Power dynamics in #MHPSS localisation 🌏 10th October, 09:30AM CET 🔗 Register: https://shorturl.at/eJcdg This event will explore the transformational power-sharing necessary to make MHPSS more appropriate, culturally sensitive, inclusive, community-led, and sustainable. With increasing global challenges such as armed conflict, political instability, and climate-related disasters, it is essential that MHPSS initiatives are designed and led by local actors who understand the unique needs and strengths of their communities. The panel will bring together experts from various fields to discuss the importance of shifting power dynamics in MHPSS and highlight strategies for successful localisation. The event is part of Terre des hommes foundation broader initiative to challenge existing paradigms and promote equitable partnerships in Psychosocial support and mental health.

MHPSS RESOURCES FOR CURRENT EMERGENCIES 📣 📘 Nine Months of Israel's War on Gaza: The Mental Health Impacts and the GCMHP's Response (October 2023 – June 2024) | Author: Gaza Community Mental Health Programme 🔗 Download in English: https://bit.ly/3Tgwl7o 📘 Education matters, July 2024 – Impact needs assessment of halted education process on the conflict affected children with and without disabilities | Author: Education Cluster, Save the Children & UNICEF 🔗 Download in English: https://bit.ly/3XgpdJ0 📘 Trapped and Scarred: The compounding mental harm inflicted on Palestinian children in Gaza | Author: Save the Children 🔗 Download in Arabic: https://bit.ly/3ThZoay 📘 2024 Mid-Year Report | Regional Refugee Response Plan for the Ukraine Situation – Czech Republic | Author: UN High Commissioner for Refugees 🔗 Download in English: https://bit.ly/3MwtgvV 📘 2024 Mid-Year Report | Regional Refugee Response Plan for the Ukraine Situation | Author: UN High Commissioner for Refugees 🔗 Download in English: https://bit.ly/3Tg0YcY 📘 Armenia Refugee Response Plan (October 2023 – March 2024) - Six months achievements and impact report | Author: UN High Commissioner for Refugees 🔗 Download in English: https://bit.ly/3Xxg7Je 📘 Mpox Emergency Response Situation Report #1 August 15, 2024 | Author: International Medical Corps 🔗 Download in English: https://bit.ly/3z7mny8 📘 Understanding Ukrainian adolescents’ attitudes to Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Poland | Author: UNICEF 🔗 Download in English: https://lnkd.in/giM7zfZZ

NEW TRANSLATIONS 📗💥 The Multi-sectoral #MHPSS Assessment Toolkit is now available in French and Spanish! The toolkit will continue to be field tested until the end of 2024, for further improvements before its planned publication as an Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) product in 2025. Download in 👇 French: https://bit.ly/3XcB0rZ Spanish: https://bit.ly/47bP7T5 Additional information on the Multi-Sectoral MHPSS Assessment Toolkit including tools, example assessments, related resources and further readings can be found on the newly added MHPSS MSP site (assessment tab) 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gdFu6AiX *Please note that each assessment tool is available for download in English, French and Spanish on the MHPSS MSP site (assessment tab) only, links in the French and Spanish online and pdf toolkits lead to English versions of tools. The MHPSS Mapping and Assessment Thematic Working Group continues to be available for technical support and questions regarding assessment and mapping (please contact co-chairs Marcio Gagliato (marcio@mhpss.net) and Inka Weissbecker (weissbeckeri@who.int).

Integrating ‘Faith’ into MHPSS 🌏⚡ An Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Faith-Sensitive Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, and Spiritual Care in Humanitarian Contexts Date: September 18/19, 2024 Location: Online Language: English, with translated captions Admission: free of charge Learn more: https://bit.ly/3AK4RjR

📣 INCOMING 📣 After a short hiatus, the MHPSS.net Monthly Resource Round-up is back! 👇 Subscribe to receive the newsletter for August 2024 & upcoming months https://bit.ly/3HXjly4 📙 What can you expect? Each month we will send you a curated list of new technical resources, new translations and updated documents in the field of mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings delivered straight to your inbox!

⚡ The Multi-Sectoral MHPSS Assessment Toolkit for Field-Testing was launched recently! Here's a sneak peak from our webinar on what the toolkit offers and why needs assessments, mappings and situational analyses are critical to informing the MHPSS response in humanitarian crises. 👩💻 Watch the webinar: https://bit.ly/3WKqc5n 📝 Take the survey: https://lnkd.in/gm5Hytsx 🔗 Download the toolkit: https://bit.ly/3XZ5yzp Field testing will take place till the end of 2024 - please do take our survey and share your feedback about the toolkit! The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) #MHPSS Thematic Group on Mapping and Assessments (co-chaired by World Health Organization and MHPSS.net (Mental Health & Psychosocial Support Network) in collaboration with UN agencies (UNICEF, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has led the development of the updated Multi-sectoral Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (#MHPSS) Assessment Toolkit for use in humanitarian settings.