Resources

PPE For Your Mind is specifically made to help make mental health healthier for all frontline workers and first responders.

This illustrated guide, developed by the IASC Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Reference Group (MHPSS RG), aims at building basic psychosocial skills among all essential workers responding to COVID-19 in all sectors.

The GHRP addresses the risks and impact of COVID-19 on the most vulnerable people in countries affected by humanitarian crises.

'My Hero is You' is a storybook written for children around the world affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

These brief tips are for fathers, mothers or other caring adults supporting the wellbeing and learning of girls and boys affected by COVID-19 school closures.

A series of resources designed to provide support on strengthening mental health and psycho-social support during the COVID-19 response.

This infographic shares four innovations and two organisations marking International Women's Day 2020.

Displaying how to use the Field Test Version of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Reference Group's Common Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS).

A large ecosystem of external actors for mental disorders already exists presenting opportunities for unlocking additional resources, though coordination of efforts is crucial, and the use of a sustainable and ethical approach is a moral imperative. Further research is needed to understand all external actors and the allocation of their contributions in different settings.

An evidence review published by What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women looking at the associations between intimate partner violence, mental health and alcohol use.

The focus of this year’s World Mental Health Day, on 10 October, was suicide prevention. WHO used the opportunity of World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September to launch, together with partners, a campaign asking people to prepare to take 40 seconds of action on World Mental Health Day and published a number of materials.

This Review aims to improve the understanding of implementation of mental health programmes in primary health care for common mental health disorders in low-income and middle-income countries. Objectives were to identify barriers and facilitators to implementation, and to adopt a pre-existing framework for understanding implementation determinants to synthesise available evidence and identify research gaps.

This is a MHIN summary for a Systematic Review entitled 'Global mental health’: systematic review of the term and its implicit priorities' (Misra et al., 2019).

This infographic highlights 5 key resources to take note of this #RefugeeWeek and #WorldRefugeeDay 2019.