Support the Well-being of Caregivers, Teachers, and Child Protection Teams

Comprehensive support for those working most closely with children, adolescents, and youth is an essential part of any intervention and must be prioritized. This includes direct support as well as strengthening supportive systems that recognize the role and value of all caregivers. Parents and other caregivers are the first line of support during crises. Their health and well-being are essential in ensuring children, adolescents, and youth are appropriately cared for, protected, and learning opportunities supported. Child protection and education personnel (including teachers, other education personnel, child protection staff, and other SSW) working closely with children, adolescents, and youth, need access to and support from mental health and psychosocial support programs. Additionally, essential components of mental health include enabling work environments that enhance the voice, agency, and leadership of education and child protection personnel working most closely with children, youth, and their caregivers.

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The IRC’s Healing Classrooms approach is based on four years of action research and field testing, as well as their extensive experience in design and implementing education programs in conflict-affected areas. In the context of sudden onset and chronic crises, as well as contexts of post-crisis and...
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These modules aim to provide school teams, including school directors, teachers and other education professionals working in or with schools, with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and tools to support the (re)enrolment of all children in schools, particularly those most marginalized, and to prevent...
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This document emerges from work by members of the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance Interest Group on Para Professionals in the Social Service Workforce. In September 2015 our first report, Para Professionals in the Social Service Workforce: Guiding Principles, Functions and Competencies, was...
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The Peer Coaching Pack provides an additional layer of support for teachers by preparing them to use supportive communication techniques, adult learning practices, Teacher Learning Circles (TLCs), and Classroom Observations to continue their professional development. Through these collaborative...
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This technical note draws on the available evidence to explore the optimal role and functions of the social service workforce to address violence against children and other child protection concerns in schools. The technical note highlights key elements of how childprotection concerns are addressed...
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The Guidelines to Strengthen the Social Service Workforce for Child Protection 2019 (the Guidelines), developed in consultation with UNICEF Headquarters and regional offices and the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance (GSSWA), are informed by evidence of ‘what works’ and lessons learned in the...
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This module has been created to promote the development and implementation of crisis-sensitive national teacher policies, in recognition of the important role played by teachers in preparing for and responding to crisis and emergency situations. It complements the Teacher Policy Development Guide...