Care System Portfolio
Care System Portfolio
Methodologies
Methodologies
Our Care System Portfolio deploys research and evidence-based methods, the humanitarian sector’s good practices and practice-driven innovations. This system of interconnected methods and practices (interventions, tools and approaches) implemented by AFEW, MdM Greece, MdM Netherlands, USSF and War Child and guided by the project's Theory of Change, consists of the following methodologies:
Our Care System Portfolio deploys research and evidence-based methods, the humanitarian sector’s good practices and practice-driven innovations. This system of interconnected methods and practices (interventions, tools and approaches) implemented by AFEW, MdM Greece, MdM Netherlands, USSF and War Child and guided by the project's Theory of Change, consists of the following methodologies:
BeThere
Group intervention to strengthen parenting skills and caregiver well-being.
Positive parenting
Caregiver support
Parental stress
Family resilience
This intervention aims to strengthen parenting by reducing stress and improving psychosocial well-being among parents and caregivers and promoting positive parenting skills. It is a nine-session group intervention delivered by non-specialist providers.
Community Tales
Storytelling and reflection to reduce stigma and promote inclusion in communities.
Anti-stigma
Psychosocial support
Community reflection
Social inclusion
Collective action
STRETCH intervention
Community Tales aim to address stigmatization and reduce the endorsement, enactment and experience of stigmatization. This strategy has been developed to create reflection about stigmatisation, its consequences, imagined contact and potential actions, leading to personal or collective resolutions. Community Tales is one of the strategies within the entire STRETCH intervention.
Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (EASE)
Group-based WHO program to reduce emotional distress in adolescents aged 10–14.
EASE
WHO
Adolescent mental health
Emotional regulation
EASE, developed by the World Health Organisation, with input from War Child, is a focused group-based mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) methodology that works to alleviate high levels of distress in adolescents between the age of 10 and 14.
Inner Strengths
Building resilience, self-esteem, and emotional coping through strengths-based learning.
Resilience
Self-esteem
Strengths-based approach
Emotional regulation
Psychosocial support
The Inner Strengths Program emphasizes the cultivation of resilience and self-esteem. By embodying a strengths-based approach, this program seeks to uncover and amplify the inherent qualities and capacities within each individual, fostering a sense of agency and self-efficacy. Participants are encouraged to explore their personal strengths and develop adaptive coping, while also strengthening positive relations with their peers. The program explores topics such as perseverance, self-regulation, gratitude, perspective, and hope. Activities in the program include emotional self-disclosure through writing and drawing, drama and role-playing, group discussions, and the practice of positive affirmations.
I Support My Friends
Peer support training based on Psychological First Aid for children and adolescents.
Peer support
Psychological First Aid
WHO
UNICEF
Save the Children
MHPSS Collaborative
Child mental health
This is a peer support training program developed for children and adolescents, based on the principles of Psychological First Aid (PFA). It aims to empower children and adolescents to support their friends who may be in distress, under the supervision of trusted adults. This methodology has been jointly created by WHO, UNICEF, Save the Children, and the MHPSS Collaborative.
Journey4Life
Evidence-based curriculum building life skills and resilience for youth through positive development.
Dance4Life
Youth development
Life skills
Sexual health education
Social-emotional learning
Positive youth development
Healthy choices
The Journey4Life is an evidence-based innovative curriculum designed and developed by Dance4Life International. Dance4Life has been working for 20 years on a safe and healthy sexual environment for young people worldwide through education programs and online campaigns. The Journey4Life curriculum is designed for youth aged 10 to 24. It uses the holistic approach of positive youth development, and contains activities to build young people’s social emotional competences so they become empowered to make healthy choices about their lives and feel confident about their future.
Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP)
Scaling up mental health and psychosocial support services in low- and middle-income countries.
Mental health reform
Depression treatment
Suicide prevention
Epilepsy care
Mental health services
Psychosocial support
The WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) aims at scaling up services for mental, neurological and substance use disorders for countries especially with low- and middle-income. The programme asserts that with proper care, psychosocial assistance and medication, tens of millions could be treated for depression, schizophrenia, and epilepsy, prevented from suicide and begin to lead normal lives– even where resources are scarce.
Problem Management Plus (PM+)
WHO-developed intervention for managing depression, anxiety, and daily stress in low-resource settings.
Psychosocial intervention
Depression
Anxiety
PTSD
Functional impairment
PM+ is a non-specialist focused MHPSS intervention developed by the WHO. PM+ is revolved around the facilitated identification of problems and development of action plans geared at reducing symptoms of depression, anxiety, stress, PTSD, functional impairment and self-identified problems.
ReachNow
Early detection and community-based mental health support for children and adolescents in distress.
Trauma support
Proactive detection
Child mental health
Adolescent well-being
Help-seeking behavior
Even when mental healthcare services exist and are available, most children and adolescents in need of mental healthcare remain untreated. Needs can go unaddressed when children are not detected and referred. ReachNow is an innovative, low-cost tool to increase mental health support for children and families affected by trauma and distress. It improves proactive detection of children and adolescents in distress by trusted community members and promotes help seeking behavior.
VoiceMore
Youth-led advocacy empowering young people to drive social change in conflict-affected communities.
Youth advocacy
Community projects
War Child
Conflict-affected youth
Empowerment
Human rights
VoiceMore is War Child's youth-led advocacy program which empowers young people affected by armed conflict to combat issues impacting them. Youth are then supported to design and run their own advocacy projects in their local community, with War Child helping raise their concerns internationally.
BeThere
Group intervention to strengthen parenting skills and caregiver well-being.
Community Tales
Storytelling and reflection to reduce stigma and promote inclusion in communities.
Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (EASE)
Group-based WHO program to reduce emotional distress in adolescents aged 10–14.
Inner Strengths
Building resilience, self-esteem, and emotional coping through strengths-based learning.
I Support My Friends
Peer support training based on Psychological First Aid for children and adolescents.
Journey4Life
Evidence-based curriculum building life skills and resilience for youth through positive development.
Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP)
Scaling up mental health and psychosocial support services in low- and middle-income countries.
Problem Management Plus (PM+)
WHO-developed intervention for managing depression, anxiety, and daily stress in low-resource settings.
ReachNow
Early detection and community-based mental health support for children and adolescents in distress.
VoiceMore
Youth-led advocacy empowering young people to drive social change in conflict-affected communities.