MHPSS.net (Mental Health & Psychosocial Support Network)

WEBINAR 🏅Frontiers in Sport as a Path to Integration and Well-Being for Young People Affected By Displacement 📅 Date: 28th October 2026 13.00-14.30 UTC 👉 Register: https://lnkd.in/gJPgDUfC The programme will be chaired by Grace Gatera, MyMind and Prof Alastair Ager, QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY, EDINBURGH. Presentations and discussion will feature: ⚡ The impact of participation on young refugee athletes, Lam Joar ORF Think Tank /On ⚡ Learning from Game Connect: how a youth sports programme strengthened psychological well-being and social cohesion among refugee and host community youth in Uganda, Lydia Murungu/Rita Larok, AVSI Foundation Uganda ⚡ The impact of engagement with SportCoach+ on coaches’ capacity to support displaced youth, Sabrina Hermosilla, Columbia University/Care and Protection of Children (CPC) Learning Network ⚡ Cities, Sport and Inclusion: how developing a policy plan to support displaced communities can drive refugee inclusion, ‘Ajwang Warria, University of Calgary and Kathleen Latimer/Andi Jacobs, Olympic Refuge Foundation ---- The Youth Olympic Games in Dakar – which for the first time will feature a Youth Refugee Olympic Team – provides an opportunity to celebrate advances in our understanding of the interplay of sport, youth displacement and well-being. The Olympic Refuge Foundation Think Tank and CPC Learning Network are pleased to offer this 'research-focused; policy- and practice-relevant' webinar profiling a number of important developments in the field.

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! 📣 Contribute via voice note or text The IASC #MHPSS Reference Group has commissioned a global Listening and Learning Exercise to better understand how MHPSS coordination works in practice across humanitarian settings. If you have led MHPSS coordination, participate in a technical working group or similar mechanism or even have been left out of coordination - we would like to hear from you! To share your views, use this link to submit a voice note or a written submission 👉 https://lnkd.in/gcA2FcUh More about the initiative 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dmRg3QTA Queen Margaret University Care and Protection of Children (CPC) Learning Network Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Institute for Health Policy Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)

IF YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH MHPSS COORDINATION PRACTICES IN HUMANITARIAN SETTINGS - THIS IS FOR YOU! The IASC MHPSS Reference Group has commissioned a global Listening and Learning Exercise to better understand how MHPSS coordination works in practice across humanitarian settings. Whether you have led MHPSS coordination, participate in a technical working group or similar mechanism or have been left out of coordination - we would like to hear from you! ⚡ Sign up an interview ⚡ We will be conducting interviews with practitioners and stakeholders from a wide range of humanitarian contexts. Interviews will explore experiences of coordination, challenges encountered, and opportunities for improvement. 👉 Interview Registration Form: https://lnkd.in/ggxXCT9p ⏰ Closes by 24th October 🎥 Watch to learn more (6 mins, 37 seconds only): https://lnkd.in/grCdcAbM

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! 📣 Contribute via voice note or text 📣 The IASC MHPSS Reference Group has commissioned a global Listening and Learning Exercise to better understand how MHPSS coordination works in practice across humanitarian settings. If you have led MHPSS coordination, participate in a technical working group or similar mechanism or even have been left out of coordination - we would like to hear from you! To share your views, use this link to submit a voice note or a written submission 👉 https://lnkd.in/gcA2FcUh More about the initiative 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dmRg3QTA

BRIEFING KIT ⚡🌎 #RasuwaFlood in #Nepal 2026 This briefing kit contains key resources for responding to Nepal’s Rasuwa Flood in 2026. This document will be updated regularly. 🔗 Download: https://lnkd.in/gF4ga3nv

SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES WITH MHPSS COORDINATION PRACTICES IN HUMANITARIAN SETTINGS - BY VOICE NOTE OR TEXT The IASC MHPSS Reference Group has commissioned a global Listening and Learning Exercise to better understand how MHPSS coordination works in practice across humanitarian settings. If you have led MHPSS coordination, participate in a technical working group or similar mechanism or have been left out of coordination - we would like to hear from you! To share your views, you can simply use this link to submit a voice note or a written submission: https://lnkd.in/gcA2FcUh For more about the initiative: https://lnkd.in/dmRg3QTA

📣 Humanitarian funding is contracting sharply, while the need for mental health and psychosocial support continues to grow. Sustaining Investment in MHPSS Localisation and Integration: Recommendations for Donors examines what funders can do to protect MHPSS and make their investments more locally led, integrated and sustainable. 🎥 WATCH https://lnkd.in/gvwT5Xdk 👇 READ 🔗 Recommendations for donors: https://shorturl.at/M7VeB 🔗 A decision brief for donors: https://shorturl.at/ePM6d 🔗 Case studies: https://shorturl.at/JP9lv The paper was developed by The MHPSS Collaborative, in partnership with Peace of Mind Foundation, Save the Children International, MHPSS.net, Terres des hommes, Mental Health Innovation Network (MHIN), the Global Mental Health Action Network (GMHAN), George Washington University Center for Global Mental Health Equity, and UNICEF, with funding from Peace of Mind Foundation, Save the Children, and DANIDA. It draws on a review of published and grey literature on humanitarian financing, localisation, and integration; key informant interviews with funders, practitioners, and researchers on what good funding looks like from both sides of the funding relationship; case studies on localisation and integration in practice across different contexts; and featured approaches showing how particular funders and implementing organisations have built these principles into the way they work.

📣 Humanitarian funding is contracting sharply, while the need for mental health and psychosocial support continues to grow. Sustaining Investment in MHPSS Localisation and Integration: Recommendations for Donors examines what funders can do to protect MHPSS and make their investments more locally led, integrated and sustainable. 🎥 WATCH https://lnkd.in/gvwT5Xdk 👇 READ 🔗 Recommendations for donors: https://shorturl.at/M7VeB 🔗 A decision brief for donors: https://shorturl.at/ePM6d 🔗 Case studies: https://shorturl.at/JP9lv The paper was developed by The MHPSS Collaborative, in partnership with Peace of Mind Foundation, Save the Children International, MHPSS.net, Terres des hommes, Mental Health Innovation Network (MHIN), the Global Mental Health Action Network (GMHAN), George Washington University Center for Global Mental Health Equity, and UNICEF, with funding from Peace of Mind Foundation, Save the Children, and DANIDA. It draws on a review of published and grey literature on humanitarian financing, localisation, and integration; key informant interviews with funders, practitioners, and researchers on what good funding looks like from both sides of the funding relationship; case studies on localisation and integration in practice across different contexts; and featured approaches showing how particular funders and implementing organisations have built these principles into the way they work.

⚡ New Recommendations for Donors ⚡ Sustaining Investment in MHPSS Localisation and Integration. Humanitarian funding is contracting sharply—while the need for mental health and psychosocial support continues to grow. Sustaining Investment in MHPSS Localisation and Integration: Recommendations for Donors examines what funders can do to protect MHPSS and make their investments more locally led, integrated and sustainable. The paper focuses on two commitments that are increasingly important in the current funding crisis: - Localisation must shift power—not only implementation. Local and national actors need meaningful influence over priorities, resources and decisions, supported by flexible, multi-year funding that covers the real costs of their work. - Integration must strengthen the whole system of care. Embedding MHPSS within health, education, protection, livelihoods and other services can improve access and outcomes— but it requires dedicated resources, supported workers, effective referral pathways and continued investment in focused and specialised care. 📙 Recommendations for donors Humanitarian funding is contracting sharply—while the need for mental health and psychosocial support continues to grow. Sustaining Investment in MHPSS Localisation and Integration: Recommendations for Donors examines what funders can do to protect MHPSS and make their investments more locally led, integrated and sustainable. 👉 Download https://shorturl.at/M7VeB 📘 A decision brief for donors Humanitarian funding is contracting while needs continue to rise, and Mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) enters this period after years of chronic underinvestment. Donors therefore face two linked tasks: protect MHPSS services that are already limited and change the funding practices that keep local actors under-resourced, fragment the continuum of care and make integrated work difficult to sustain. 👉 Download https://shorturl.at/ePM6d 📗 Case studies This document contains six selected case studies that were collected for the paper “Sustaining Investment in MHPSS Localisation and Integration: Recommendations for donors”. 👉 Download https://shorturl.at/JP9lv

📣🌎 IF YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH MHPSS COORDINATION PRACTICES IN HUMANITARIAN SETTINGS - THIS IS FOR YOU! 📣🌎 The IASC MHPSS Reference Group has commissioned a global Listening and Learning Exercise to better understand how MHPSS coordination works in practice across humanitarian settings. Whether you have led MHPSS coordination, participate in a technical working group or similar mechanism or have been left out of coordination - we would like to hear from you! Whether you work in community, national or global level, we have many different ways that you can share your views: 🎥 Watch to learn more (6 mins only): https://lnkd.in/grCdcAbM 👉 Sign up an interview: https://lnkd.in/ggxXCT9p 📞 Join a group consultation call: https://lnkd.in/g63ngGy6 🎙️ Send us a voice note or a written submission: https://lnkd.in/gcA2FcUh 📙 Submit documents: https://lnkd.in/gQY8h5JA 🌱 Help us make sense of our findings: https://lnkd.in/gdpnzfVq 🔗 Read to learn more about the initiative: https://shorturl.at/7f77w