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Mental Health and Psychosocial Support and Migration Awareness Raising

MHPSS course/IOM

This online  course on Mental Health, Psychosocial Support, and Migration Awareness Raising is designed to enhance understanding of the mental health challenges faced by migrants. It will equip participants with essential resources to better comprehend the psychological impacts of migration, while also focusing on strengthening interpersonal and communication skills, especially through peer-to-peer interactions.

Participants will have a better understanding of the psychosocial dimensions of migration at the end of the course, and they will be better equipped to assist and interact with migrants.

Find more details of the course here

The course is free and available in English, and is organized in six modules: 

Module 1: Understanding Migration from a Mental Health (MH) perspective

Module 2: Mental Health and Psychosocial support & Psychological First aid

Module 3:  Service mapping and referral mechanism

Module 4: Communication skills

Module 5: Awareness raising and Mental Health and Psychological Support (MHPSS)

Module 6: Psychological support (PSS) community-based interventions.

The course also offers few additional resources for more awareness. It is free and available in English at Yenna.org.