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This resource on Supporting the Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing of Young Changemakers: Facilitators Guide, Slides and Participant Workbook provides the roadmap for skilled facilitators to deliver an online training to young changemakers to equip them with the knowledge, skills, and supports to protect and promote their mental health and psychosocial wellbeing. This resource has two parts: A Facilitators’ Guide consisting of a virtual training script and accompanying slides for the delivery of a 2-day, 8-hour (4 hours per day) interactive, experiential training to young changemakers; andA Participant Workbook to be used by young changemakers during the training, and to be a personal resource for participants on promoting their mental health and psychosocial wellbeing. 

Check back soon to access a virtual resource library to support facilitators and supervisors of the UNICEF-WHO Helping Adolescents Thrive (HAT) interventions. The HAT Classroom will bring together training materials from across countries to promote quality, consistency, and innovation in delivering adolescent and caregiver mental health…, Virtual Resource Library for HAT Facilitators: User Survey, We are creating a virtual resource library to support training for facilitators of the UNICEF-WHO Helping Adolescents Thrive (HAT) interventions. This short user survey will help us ensure this virtual library is practical, relevant, and easy to access.

This guide is designed for individuals involved in providing psycho-emotional support to adolescents and young people, particularly through digital platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. It offers practical tools, strategies, and guidance to ensure that support is delivered with empathy, cultural relevance, and a psychosocial perspective.In addition to supporting front-line youth responders, the guide also serves as a reference for those involved in program design, coordination, and the development of psychoeducational materials. It is part of the broader Contacto Joven strategy, which promotes safe, stigma-free spaces for young people to talk about their mental health and seek help.

This material is specially designed for teachers who work with adolescents. It is part of an environment transformation strategy that highlights the significant influence teachers have on their students—not only in terms of learning, but even more importantly, in their personal development. The classroom is also recognized as one of the most important spaces for promoting positive mental health, both for adolescents and for teachers themselves.

Mental health is an essential part of our lives and just as important as physical health.The way we experience and self-regulate our emotions, thoughts, and behaviors plays a key role in shaping our sense of inner wellbeing and the quality of our relationships. With this resource, we want to equip you with tools to take care of your mental health—and also support the mental health of those close to you.

Being a caregiver is no easy task — it requires love, dedication, patience, and commitment. It is an essential role in shaping human beings who are constructive for themselves and for society. The caregiver's role becomes even more challenging when their children are adolescents. That’s why we want to support you with tools to help you take care of yourself — especially your mental health — and that of your adolescent children.The goal of this resource is to:Strengthen your knowledge and skillsas a caregiver to support your adolescent’s mental health.Improve the caregiver–adolescent relationship.Support your own mental health as a care provider.

The National Youth Support Network Contacto Joven (hereinafter Contacto Joven) provides psycho-emotional support with psychosocial components to adolescents and young people who request help via electronic messaging (WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger). The case support offered through Contacto Joven is built on five key components of action:Initial training (virtual and synchronous) for individuals who provide support to adolescents and young people.Direct case support, delivered through electronic messaging to adolescents and young people.Case supervision, offered to support personnel by mental health specialists.Evaluation of the support provided through Contacto Joven, carried out by those who request help using a specifically designed tool.Development of psychoeducational materials to support the accompaniment process.

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The Caring for the Caregiver (CFC) package trains frontline workers (FLWs) to attend to caregivers’ emotional and practical support, to encourage both family and community strengthening, and to advocate for early child development and gender transformation. It targets all caregivers, and the content of CFC is largely suitable for the needs of adolescent caregivers.However, FLWs could benefit from additional training and supplementary materials to improve their skills, confidence, and willingness to counsel adolescent caregivers, their partners, and families. The supplement should be used alongside CFC to improve the sensitivity and quality of counseling provided to pregnant and caregiving adolescents.The supplement aims to train FLWs in an adolescent-sensitive counselling approach and to provide them with adolescent- friendly tools and activities that respond to the unique risks associated with adolescent caregiving.

A presentation by Dr. Joanna Lai, Dr. Faraaz Mahomed, Dr. Sarah Skeen, and Marcy Levy outlining the strategies, tools and approaches to increase knowledge and skills of caregivers and teachers to support adolescent mental well-being. The approach is based on multisectoral collaboration across communities, families and individuals. 

REPSSI seeks to leverage its data to provide insight into what adolescents psychosocial and mental wellbeing looks like across 11 East and Southern Africa countries (Angola, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe). The data enables us to compare and contrast contextual similarities and differences that need to be taken into account when programming.It also allows for the consideration of risk and protective factors associated with enhanced or reduced psychosocial wellbeing, which can be used to inform evidence-based MHPSS advocacy and programming.