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Oct 10, 2026

World Mental Health Day Editorial: our Movement is defined by lived experiences – let’s make them count

Today on October 10, World Mental Health Day is marked across the globe under the theme of "Lived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change". With more than 18 million staff and volunteers under our banner - the majority of whom are part of the communities they serve - the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement is defined by lived experience. For the Movement localisation is not an ambition – it is a reality – it is our organisational DNA and has been in place since our inception in 1863.

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Sep 23, 2026

Call for Applications: Youth-to-Youth Global MHPSS Campaign

We invite young Red Cross Red Crescent volunteers or staff members to learn with us, develop messages and content together and to create a campaign launched across our platforms and outlets.

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Sep 22, 2026

New podcast series on the latest edition of the International Review of the Red Cross focusing on Mental health and armed conflict

The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub is launching a podcast-series in cooperation with ICRC.

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Sep 10, 2026

World Suicide Prevention Day op-ed: Whose narrative counts? Suicide prevention and the geography of what we know

On World Suicide Prevention Day, 10 September 2026, the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub publishes an op-ed authored by our Research Specialist, Dr. Yasin Duman. The op-ed provides a critical overview of the gaps in our knowledge, the asymmetry of the way we produce and share our knowledge and ways forward in widening our scope.

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Aug 27, 2025

Regional trainings in Africa and the Americas

In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Communications Officer Jesper Guhle interviews MHPSS specialists Cátia Matos and Guleed Dualeh about the first regional MHPSS trainings conducted by the Red Cross Red Crescent MHPSS Hub.

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Aug 26, 2025

Vacancy: Director to lead the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub

Are you a visionary humanitarian leader with a passion for mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS)? Do you want to shape the future of MHPSS in the world’s largest humanitarian network? The Danish Red Cross, with its partners, seeks a strategic, inclusive and inspiring Director to lead the RCRC Movement MHPSS Hub - the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement’s global centre of excellence for MHPSS.

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Jun 30, 2025

Cruz Roja Paraguaya fighting for the mental health of the community

Dr. Maria Gloria Montórfano is National Health Coordinator for the Paraguayan Red Cross (Cruz Roja Paraguaya) and was a co-facilitator at the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergencies training in Asunción, Paraguay organized by the MHPSS Hub and Paraguayan Red Cross.

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Jun 23, 2025

ICRC Southern Cone region: Mental health between climate change and armed conflict

Renata Reali is Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Programme Responsible at the International Committee of the Red Cross – ICRC, based in Brazil and covering Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil. Renata joined the Regional Training: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergencies in Asunción, Paraguay facilitated by the MHPSS Hub and Paraguayan Red Cross (Cruz Roja Paraguaya).

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Jun 4, 2025

Annual report 2024 – a first and a last

The final annual report of the IFRC Psychosocial Centre is also the first for the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub.

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May 28, 2025

Guidance Notes: on MHPSS Implications of heatwaves and wildfires

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.

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May 19, 2025

No mental health without involvement – no rights without agency

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”.

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Apr 29, 2025

More than 1000 trained under Sport Coach+

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.

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Apr 25, 2025

PFA for Complex Reactions: six-episode video series from Palestine

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.

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Mar 21, 2025

Guidance Notes: out on MHPSS Implications of Vector-borne Diseases and Epidemics

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.

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Mar 12, 2025

Global MHPSS Library: read, watch, listen and learn

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

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Mar 3, 2025

Report: Lebanon’s Urgent Mental Health Crisis: How can Nordic actors contribute to response, recovery and systems strengthening?

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.