Education
Sector-specific MHPSS recommendations
Unsafe learning environments can negatively impact the well-being of children and youth and even lead to rights violations.
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Unsafe learning environments can negatively impact the well-being of children and youth and even lead to rights violations. Teachers in humanitarian settings may be stressed, struggling to manage their own emotions, over-worked or managing large groups of children. These challenges reduce their ability to teach academics, model desired behaviour, and provide emotional stability to children who may also be struggling academically and emotionally.
Integrating MHPSS into quality, psychosocially supportive and protective education leads to improvements in children’s well-being, overall learning and academic outcomes.[1] These positive outcomes are especially important for girls, whose experience of academic achievement, peer support and reduced isolation makes them more likely to send their own children to school.
[1] Ibidem
Key Resources:
- Save the Children International, Safe Schools: Teacher professional development modules; Module 3: Building positive teacher-student relationships
- Child Protection Area of Responsibility, Safe Back to School: A practitioner’s guide, 2020
- International Rescue Committee, Creating Healing Classrooms–Facilitator’s Guide: A Multimedia Teacher Training Resource, 2011