If you are responding to the #TurkeyEarthquake & #SyriaEarthquake, we are working with colleagues on the ground and @iascch#MHPSS Reference Group to put out ver 1.0 of a briefing kit with key resources (incl in Turkish and Arabic). We hope to share this today. #CheckBackLater
Opportunity Reminder!
@gchallenges is seeking a subcontractor based in a low-or-middle income country to support the #GlobalMentalHealth program in designing & implementing a research funding call.
Deadline: 29th August 2022
More info-> https://t.co/vOx6jg1C8w
#youthmentalhealth
A transfer of knowledge gap exists between research and practice in MHPSS.
How do we ensure knowledge from research reach the field level practitioners in a useful manner?
https://t.co/pxNVEMHYvF
@SSHAP_action @ashley_nemiro @louisejuulhanse@Theresa_E_Jones#Anthrologica
SURVEY 📣 do you have useful resources on #MHPSS for children & families' in conflict settings?
Learn more 👉 https://t.co/GzewGFriJP
The resources will be curated by @MHPSSCollabora1 & @mhpss for a public repository. *Survey closes 4th August*
DYK❓ Worldwide, more people are on the move now than ever before, yet many refugees & migrants face poorer health outcomes than host populations.
NEW 🌍 World report on the #health of #refugees & migrants by @WHO
Download 👉 https://t.co/4EFE04E1F1
👏 Congratulations to Professor Sir Graham Thornicroft from @kingsioppn who has been appointed as mental health advisor to Director General of @WHO!
He will advise on mental health, neurological disorders, substance use and addictive behaviours.
https://t.co/GEy2CDaNcj
NEW RESOURCE 📣 added to 'I Support My Friends' Resource Kit by @UNICEF@save_children@MHPSSCollabora1 & @WHO
View 👉 https://t.co/1eKOfxcpSZ
Access similar resources through the https://t.co/tODD7lybJ2 emergency toolkit 🔗 https://t.co/o3tgp4YlvR
The @WHO have launched the World Mental Health Report. It urges mental health decision makers & advocates to step up commitment & action to change attitudes, actions & approaches to mental health care
#WorldMentalHealthReport
https://t.co/YVvfzNw93N
❗JUST RELEASED ❗ @WHO policy brief on Mental health and Climate ChangeWe agree wholeheartedly that we need to be concerned about mental health in the context of climate change.
Read the brief here:
https://t.co/TGvUcIb8uX
The Self-Help Plus intervention (SH+) is cost-effective as an intervention to prevent mental disorders in conflict-exposed #refugees hosted in Turkey. https://t.co/V6SRNSGNEO New publication in @JAMANetwork@myACBS#ACT
Check out our free @FutureLearn certified course "Qualitative Research Methods for Mental Health in War and Conflict" - aimed at health professionals, administrators, researchers. In English with Arabic translation! Spread the word everyone:
https://t.co/iDEaInEK3g
📢📢📢 @IMC_Worldwide is organizing an in-person training course for emerging #GBV specialists. This eight-day training will build both technical knowledge of GBV and practical skills in GBV programme design and management.
For more info 👉👉 https://t.co/Kvry1vtjly
Validating and adapting outcome instruments for MHPSS research with refugees is always enriching our understanding. See here the work of COSTAR project with Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda.
@RossGWhite@achiumento
https://t.co/yhG7aSNSg3
We heard from @SirarJar about the aftermath of the Syrian crisis on mental health: "We have to remind people not to use words like depressed casually, they are not depressed, they are reacting normally to a distressful situation.” #AgentsOfChange
Tix: https://t.co/RaujFBybzM
“There is limited evidence about the psychosocial wellbeing of young children who are less than the age of 10 especially in conflicted zones. This has only been heightened more by the COVID-19 pandemic.” says @sirarJar at our Immigrants and Refugees Panel #AgentsOfChange