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Working with preschool children - e-Toolkit on Early Childhood -Booklet 3 (5.2Mb)
Booklet 3 - Empowering Caregivers: Raising Awareness in Mothers and Fathers:
this is the last booklet of the four-booklets e-Toolkit developed by Terre des Hommes Italy as a result of two years working with preschool children in the Gaza Strip. The e-Toolit is directed at professionals who would like to explore how principles of Early Child Development (ECD) – especially those focusing on preschool children – can be turned into projects and activities, this publication provides a series of working tools that can be used to address some of the recurring issues when dealing with preschoolers.
The Booklet 3 illustrates a variety of developmentally appropriate parenting practices for preschool children and describes a series of awareness activities on Early Child Development directed at parents. Such activities could be implemented by any professional (social workers, nurses, teachers, paediatricians, etc.) who are in contact with parents of preschool children.
- Working with preschool children - e-Toolkit on Early Childhood -Booklet 2 (4.7Mb)
Booklet 2 - Empowering Caregivers: Professionals with Direct Responsibility for Groups of Preschool Children (Kindergarten Teachers, Preschool Children’s Educators, Animators): this is the second booklet of the four-booklets e-Toolkit developed by Terre des Hommes Italy as a result of two years working with preschool children in the Gaza Strip. The e-Toolit is directed at professionals who would like to explore how principles of Early Child Development (ECD) – especially those focusing on preschool children – can be turned into projects and activities, this publication provides a series of working tools that can be used to address some of the recurring issues when dealing with preschoolers.
The Booklet 2 provides an overview of how children learn and what professionals with direct responsibility for groups of children (kindergarten teachers, preschool children’s educators and animators) can do to support their learning and development. The booklet includes a training guide for kindergarten teachers on Early Child Development. The training is structured in six basic modules (Child Development; Dealing with Children; Responsibility for Working with Young Children; Role of the Family; Children in Difficult Situations; Summary) and lasts fifty-one hours. A key component of the training is the Child Follow-Up File as a tool to monitor and support preschoolers’ development.
- Working with preschool children - e-Toolkit on Early Childhood -Booklet 1 (4.6Mb)
Booklet 1 - Monitoring Development in Preschool Children:
this is the first booklet of the four-booklets e-Toolkit developed by Terre des Hommes Italy as a result of two years working with preschool children in the Gaza Strip. The e-Toolit is directed at professionals who would like to explore how principles of Early Child Development (ECD) – especially those focusing on preschool children – can be turned into projects and activities, this publication provides a series of working tools that can be used to address some of the recurring issues when dealing with preschoolers.
The Booklet 1 describes the developmental gains for children from the ages of three to five, illustrates indicators (developmental milestones) to monitor development in preschool children, and presents the Child Follow-Up File, a tool developed within the Gaza experience to monitor the children’s progress in the kindergarten.
- Working with preschool children - e-Toolkit on Early Childhood -Booklet 0 (5.2Mb)
Booklet 0 - Introduction to Working with Early Childhood:
this is the introductory booklet of the four-booklets e-Toolkit developed by Terre des Hommes Italy as a result of two years working with preschool children in the Gaza Strip. The e-Toolit is directed at professionals who would like to explore how principles of Early Child Development (ECD) – especially those focusing on preschool children – can be turned into projects and activities, this publication provides a series of working tools that can be used to address some of the recurring issues when dealing with preschoolers.
The Booklet 0 explains the genesis of the e-Toolkit and illustrates the reference framework (approach, core principles and basic concepts) on Early Child Development in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating their intervention.
Lebanon.4Wsmatrix DRAFT. updated Feb 2nd 2012 (72Kb) - MOM MHPSS WG Jan 25 2012 (1.1Mb)
North Health Working Group. MHPSS presentation. Feb 1 2012 (528.1Kb) - Community-Based Psychosocial Support - Participant's Book (4.6Mb)
The Participant's Book facilitates learning on how to provide and spot the need for psychosocial support. It is part and parcel of the 'Training Kit' which includes the Trainer's Book and additional resources available here: http://psp.drk.dk/sw40688.asp
- Community-Based Psychosocial Support - Trainer's Book (5.5Mb)
“Community-based psychosocial support – A training kit” builds on experiences of psychosocial work of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement in the last decade from all over the world. It consists of a Trainer’s book, a Participant’s book and a CD-ROM with the Trainer’s and Participant’s books, PowerPoint slides and a template (for you to create your own slides).
PowerPoint slides and templates are available here: http://psp.drk.dk/sw40688.asp - Psychosocial Interventions - A Handbook (4.9Mb)
This handbook is the product of an extensive review of psychosocial interventions that has focused especially on the lessons learned from the psychosocial response to the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. The first section of the handbook introduces psychosocial support in the context of the work of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, and explains that the experience of psychosocial well-being is contextually and culturally bound. The handbook consists of considerations and recommendations for psychosocial practitioners who are going to set up a psychosocial intervention for the first time, paying attention to assessing needs and resources; planning and implementation; training; and monitoring and evaluation. The hardcopy of the handbook is accompanied by a CD filled with relevant documents and tools, all of which are also available on our resource database.
For more resources go to www.ifrc.org/psychosocial - Communication and Helping Skills for Humanitarian Workers (325.1Kb)
This training manual focuses on the skills required by humanitarian workers in order to communicate effectively in the challenging situations in which we work. Its aims are twofold: to improve the quality of our working relationships, and to enhance our effectiveness as helpers. It concentrates on skills of particular significance to humanitarian workers
operating in situations of conflict or post-conflict. It is written in an interactive style, with participative exercises, and can be used both by a training group or by individuals applying the processes to their specific work environments. - PSYCHOSOCIAL PROGRAMMING FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH IMPACTED BY THE TRAUMA OF COMPLEX EMERGENCIES AND WAR (163.5Kb)
Children and youth are commonly thought of as fragile and vulnerable beings, but children and youth have more capacity for resilience than most people would credit them with having. They are, however, part of a social system that is characterized by layers of social organization of ever increasing complexity. Such organization and complexity encompasses a variety of individuals and institutions such as childcare providers and schools that are significant in determining the context and direction for children and youth’s lives.
We recognize that cultures are continually changing as a consequence of outside influences and that the values and ideals in the UN charter are worth promoting. Psychosocial workers, however, must address the important issue of how these can be introduced where there are no cultural antecedents. How can the rights of children and youth where they have few, if any, be promoted; and how can they be promoted in a culturally sensitive way that will encourage positive relevant change without undermining important traditional community, cultural, religious, family, and individual values? - Zambia Rsch: Risks associated with vulnerability (332.5Kb)
Preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership between REPSSI, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and ChildFund Zambia are now available.
Since 2008, 960 children aged between 10 and 18, in a rural area of Kafue, Zambia, participated in five rounds of a very comprehensive survey. The survey was designed to asses the effects of a programme to provide both livelihood support to poor households and psychosocial support to children.
These briefs provide information around the challenges facing young people living in communities ravaged by HIV, AIDS, and poverty. In particular they highlight the challenges faced by young people living with chronically ill caregivers – a group that can be sometimes ignored as we focus on those who are orphaned.
This research brief focusses on the risks associated with being vulnerable: defined here as being orphaned, living with an elderly or chronically ill caregiver. - Zambia Rsch: How complicated grief affects Zambian orphans (105.7Kb)
Preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership between REPSSI, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and ChildFund Zambia are now available.
Since 2008, 960 children aged between 10 and 18, in a rural area of Kafue, Zambia, participated in five rounds of a very comprehensive survey. The survey was designed to asses the effects of a programme to provide both livelihood support to poor households and psychosocial support to children.
These briefs provide information around the challenges facing young people living in communities ravaged by HIV, AIDS, and poverty. In particular they highlight the challenges faced by young people living with chronically ill caregivers – a group that can be sometimes ignored as we focus on those who are orphaned.
This brief uncovered some interesting findings on grief – data here suggests that a large proportion of children are still experience complex grief two years after their parents have passed away – and that this grief is still so strong it is debilitating. - Zambia Rsch: How parental separation affects Zambian youth (126Kb)
Preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership between REPSSI, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and ChildFund Zambia are now available.
Since 2008, 960 children aged between 10 and 18, in a rural area of Kafue, Zambia, participated in five rounds of a very comprehensive survey. The survey was designed to asses the effects of a programme to provide both livelihood support to poor households and psychosocial support to children.
These briefs provide information around the challenges facing young people living in communities ravaged by HIV, AIDS, and poverty. In particular they highlight the challenges faced by young people living with chronically ill caregivers – a group that can be sometimes ignored as we focus on those who are orphaned.
This research brief focuses on how parental separation affects Zambian children. This has potentially important implications for the many cultures in sub-Saharan Africa where children are traditionally separated from their parents for some period of their childhood.
- Zambia Rsch: exploring school drop out among Zambian youth (120.7Kb)
Preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership between REPSSI, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and ChildFund Zambia are now available.
Since 2008, 960 children aged between 10 and 18, in a rural area of Kafue, Zambia, participated in five rounds of a very comprehensive survey. The survey was designed to asses the effects of a programme to provide both livelihood support to poor households and psychosocial support to children.
These briefs provide information around the challenges facing young people living in communities ravaged by HIV, AIDS, and poverty. In particular they highlight the challenges faced by young people living with chronically ill caregivers – a group that can be sometimes ignored as we focus on those who are orphaned.
This research brief explores school drop out among Zambian youth.
- Zambia Rsch: Factors mediating depression among vulnerable Zambian youth (261.1Kb)
Preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership between REPSSI, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and ChildFund Zambia are now available.
Since 2008, 960 children aged between 10 and 18, in a rural area of Kafue, Zambia, participated in five rounds of a very comprehensive survey. The survey was designed to asses the effects of a programme to provide both livelihood support to poor households and psychosocial support to children.
These briefs provide information around the challenges facing young people living in communities ravaged by HIV, AIDS, and poverty. In particular they highlight the challenges faced by young people living with chronically ill caregivers – a group that can be sometimes ignored as we focus on those who are orphaned.
This research brief examines the factors that mediate depression among vulnerable Zambian youth. Here we show that by focussing our attention on a small number of community and household factors, our potential for reducing depression in this population is high.
- Zambia Rsch: Predictors of depression in Zambian youth (349Kb)
Preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership between REPSSI, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and ChildFund Zambia are now available.
Since 2008, 960 children aged between 10 and 18, in a rural area of Kafue, Zambia, participated in five rounds of a very comprehensive survey. The survey was designed to asses the effects of a programme to provide both livelihood support to poor households and psychosocial support to children.
These briefs provide information around the challenges facing young people living in communities ravaged by HIV, AIDS, and poverty. In particular they highlight the challenges faced by young people living with chronically ill caregivers – a group that can be sometimes ignored as we focus on those who are orphaned.
This research lists the factors that can predict depression in Zambian youth. This brief is closely connected to the brief on what mediates depression.
- Zambia Rsch: Intervention Exposure (463.7Kb)
Preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership between REPSSI, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and ChildFund Zambia are now available.
Since 2008, 960 children aged between 10 and 18, in a rural area of Kafue, Zambia, participated in five rounds of a very comprehensive survey. The survey was designed to asses the effects of a programme to provide both livelihood support to poor households and psychosocial support to children.
These briefs provide information around the challenges facing young people living in communities ravaged by HIV, AIDS, and poverty. In particular they highlight the challenges faced by young people living with chronically ill caregivers – a group that can be sometimes ignored as we focus on those who are orphaned.
This research brief examines the programme difficulties of retaining young people in a programme over a long period of time.
- Zambia Rsch: Poverty Alleviation (150.4Kb)
Preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership between REPSSI, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and ChildFund Zambia are now available.
Since 2008, 960 children aged between 10 and 18, in a rural area of Kafue, Zambia, participated in five rounds of a very comprehensive survey. The survey was designed to asses the effects of a programme to provide both livelihood support to poor households and psychosocial support to children.
These briefs provide information around the challenges facing young people living in communities ravaged by HIV, AIDS, and poverty. In particular they highlight the challenges faced by young people living with chronically ill caregivers – a group that can be sometimes ignored as we focus on those who are orphaned.
This research brief looks at the effects of the economic strengthening programme.
