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Introduction
Children face various challenges in our world today. How children cope in very difficult circumstances and how resilient they are depends on a wide range of factors. ‘Understanding children’s wellbeing’ has been written for people who take care of children in difficult circumstances, looking at how children react to crises and how to help them.
This booklet can be used as a stand-alone resource or as part of the children’s resilience programme. It has been written for parents, teachers, community workers, trainers – both those people who are directly caring for children and those who are supporting or training others in their work with children. It looks at psychosocial support and child protection, and describes how activities in the children’s resilience programme can be used both within formal school settings and out of school in all kinds of child friendly spaces.
‘The Children’s Resilience Programme – psychosocial support in and out of schools’ is a joint initiative of Save the Children and the Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. It has been developed for organizations involved in planning and implementing psychosocial interventions with groups of children and their caregivers. In addition to this booklet, the resource kit has two handbooks with structured workshops for children affected by abuse and exploitation, armed conflict, disaster, or living in communities with high rates of HIV. The kit also has a handbook for programme managers and an electronic activity bank.
For more information about the resource kit and how to order it, please see details on p. 2.