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Mental Health and Psychosocial Support

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Are you a leader for peace? Do you want to improve your ability to support the psychosocial and mental well-being of the communities you serve?

This mental health and psychosocial support course gives peacebuilders, humanitarian workers and community leaders practical tools to support people living through conflict. Identify risk factors, recognize traumatic stress and apply the pyramid of multi-layered support. Download this course to build prevention plans and care for your own well-being.

With Mitti you can

Create training in minutes, not months
Share courses in one click
Manage completion and track performance
Increase participation and retention

With Mitti you can

Create training in minutes, not months
Share courses in one click
Manage completion and track performance
Increase participation and retention

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    The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is a dedicated training arm of the United Nations system.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    The mental health and psychosocial support course that prepares peacebuilders for the toll of conflict work

    Communities in post-conflict settings carry grief, fear and trauma, and the people supporting them carry it too. The World Health Organization has reported that about one in five people in conflict-affected areas lives with a mental disorder. The common gaps:

    • Warning signs go unnoticed when nobody is trained to spot risk factors early.

    • Responses vary from person to person when there is no layered model to follow.

    • Peacebuilders burn out when self-care is treated as optional.

    Learn 20 lessons that take you from mental health basics to community action

    This mental health and psychosocial support course is available online, so your team can open it on any device and learn at their own pace. It moves from core definitions to practical tools:

    • Identify risk factors and protective factors in the communities you serve.

    • Recognize traumatic stress and burnout, then use the self-care tools in the course briefcase.

    • Apply the pyramid of multi-layered support to match help to need.

    • Plan prevention and advocacy using the communication tips lesson.

    Support communities without losing sight of your own well-being

    Your team gets one shared approach, from the Humanitarian Assistance Core Principles to personal self-care. Clear steps show what good support looks like, in the spirit of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee pyramid.

    Access the full mental health and psychosocial support course and give your team a shared way to protect community well-being.