Growing Up in Conflict: The impact on children’s mental health and well-being
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Focus greater attention to the core role of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) interventions for children affected by armed conflict, especially addressing inter-generational aspects of the issue.
Develop further innovative approaches to scale up quality MHPSS interventions for children and adolescents.
Achieve an appropriate balance between community-based and specialized interventions to meet the diverse needs of large numbers of affected children.
Clarify and strengthen links between MHPSS interventions, social cohesion and peacebuilding.
Make explicit the linkages between mental health and economic, social and political justice; acknowledge the importance of justice as foundational for mental health and psychosocial wellbeing.
Increase funding for rigorous evaluation and operations research to build the evidence base for scalable, effective MHPSS practice for children, especially for community-based interventions for the large numbers of children and families in need.