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The guidance notes are intended for Red Cross Red Crescent Movement components who may be responding to heatwaves and wildfires in their country, or region.

European Mental Health Week 2025 initiated by Mental Health Europe runs from today 19 May until 25th May. This year’s event emphasises the link between mental health and social policies: “encouraging policy makers and people in positions of power to think bigger than the biomedical narrative which focuses on the individual and illness”.

The Sport Coach+ programme implemented in a partnership between the Olympic Refuge Foundation (ORF) and the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub has now passed 1000 trained sport coaches. A series of trainings have been conducted in ten countries – one of the latest in Copenhagen on 25 April.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub have partnered to produce a series of six short training videos depicting real-life situations of individuals affected by crises and showing how professionals as well as communities can effectively respond to mental health needs during emergencies.

MHPSS Advisor, Shona Whitton & MHPSS in Emergencies Intern, Augustin Lambert, have prepared two new Guidance Notes with a focus on mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in the context of vector-borne diseases and epidemics.

The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub hosts a resource library with more than 1000 mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) resources

In December Dr. Rabih El Chammay, Head of Lebanon's National Mental Health Programme, visited Copenhagen to meet with Nordic stakeholders including the Nordic Network on MHPSS, the MHPSS Collaborative and the IASC MHPSS Reference Group.

24 February 2025 marks the third year since the acceleration of the international armed conflict in Ukraine with the full-scale invasion.

One year ago, the “Youth Mental Health Toolkit On 5 Emerging Issues in Africa” was launched under the hashtag #ICanSurvive.

Visit the focus area and explore the five themes of: Learn about digital MHPSS; Dive deeper; Get inspired; innovate and implement; Share and connect.

The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub has launched a podcast series on Ambiguous loss. MHPSS Specialist, Arz Stephan has moderated the three episodes of the Heartbeat of Humanity podcast and interviewed leading experts on different topics related to Ambiguous loss.

Effective January 1, 2025, the current IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support evolved into the RCRC Movement MHPSS Hub. This transformation builds on the Reference Centre’s 30 years of experience, the expertise of the ICRC, and the contributions of National Societies working on MHPSS.