Resources

Below is an overview of resources to help children, families, and health care providers across the world who are working to support children and families who are experiencing fear, threat, loss of loved ones, and displacement.

The resources contain a large amount of information on how to support the mental, physical, and behavioral health of refugees during both this acute phase and in the long term, guidelines regarding assessment and support for complex psychological factors impacting the wellbeing of families affected by the war, and strategies to assist health care staff through education and training. The list is organized by language with sub-headings by resource type.

Resources have been compiled by EPPN in collaboration with providers across institutions, including St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the National Institutes of Health and the Spanish Society of Psychology. Thanks to everyone for contributing to this resource list. If you are aware of any resources that would be useful to add, please contact us at info@europedpsych.com.

Specific resources to support children and families affected by the violence in Israel and Gaza

  • AMENA-Psy collected a large variety of resources, in different languages, aimed to support children affected by the violence in Palestine. An overview can be found here.
  • ‘Ohel’ translated 2 workbooks in Hebrew, aimed to support children in dealing with emotional distress:
    • Inner Space: My Resilience Workbook (for elementary school ages)
    • I Feel That Way and That’s Okay! (for preschool children)

The workbooks, and other material to support children’s emotional wellbeing, are also available in many other languages. See https://www.ohelfamily.org/resources for more information!


Dealing with blast injuries and pain experiences:

The Paediatric Blast Injury Field Manual is aimed at those with medical training in order to be able to use their medical knowledge and adapt it to treat severely injured children!

The Quick Guide: Emergency Pain Management for Injured Children is aimed at anyone who cares for children to support a comprehensive provision of pain management based on the 3 pillars of intervention: physical, psychological, and pharmacological, within low resource and conflict settings.

Global Psychosocial Network

The Global Psychosocial Network (GPN) is worldwide organisation consisting of psychosocial professionals who support other professionals (e.g., psychosocial workers, healthcare professionals, humanitarian workers, and social justice activists ), groups, and organisations who work in places of distress, such as conflict zones. For more information see https://globalpsychosocial.org and for an overview of the professionals see https://globalpsychosocial.org/meet-gpn/

Mental Health Providers needed to support Telehelp Ukraine!

TeleHelp Ukraine is a Stanford initiated free telehealth platform for Ukrainian patients. We pair volunteer physicians and mental health providers with interpreters and patients in Ukraine and Poland. Currently, we are in particular need of more mental health providers! Sign up at: https://www.telehelpukraine.com/i-want-to-help-1

Resources for Providers

Resources in Ukrainian

For Providers

Refugee and Immigrant Children

Child Grief and Trauma

Adolescent/Young Adult Grief and Trauma

The Ukrainian National Cancer Institute (UNCI) has set up a support hotline for counseling and psychosocial support for cancer patients and their families; information is posted (in Ukrainian) here: https://unci.org.ua/u-natsionalnomu-instytuti-raku-organizovano-garyachu-liniyu-informatsijno-konsultatyvnoyi-ta-psyhologichnoyi-dopomogy/ They are also still continuing cancer treatment for those in Ukraine (and many medical centers in Poland and adjacent countries are offering cancer care/treatment to Ukrainian refugee cancer patients).

Resources in Russian

Grief and Trauma (General)

Refugee and Immigrant Children

Young Children

School Aged Children and Adolescents

Military Families

Resources in Dutch

*resources can be downloaded from the website in Ukrainian

Resources in German

Resources in Japanese

Resources in Spanish

Resources in English

Resources in Polish

Children and Families

Healthcare and Humanitarian Aid Workers

Community and Military Leaders

Military Families

Refugees and Migrants

The WHO has a publication called “Mental health promotion and mental health care in refugees and migrants” that may be helpful (but it’s only in English): https://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/386563/mental-health-eng.pdf

Additional Resources

Addiction and Mental Health

Multi-Lingual Organizations and Resources

ASCO has a page of resources at Cancer.Net related specifically to managing cancer during emergency situations with a variety of Ukrainian and adjacent language options: https://www.cancer.net/navigating-cancer-care/managing-your-care/resources-ukrainian-people-with-cancer as well as psychosocial resources: https://connection.asco.org/blogs/psychosocial-support-patients-affected-cancer-and-war-practical-advice-providers?cid=DM10123&bid=156680241

The Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s (IASC) Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings has many links to a wide variety of different resources in English, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovakian, Lithuanian, and Latvian. This resource is also available in Ukrainian

The World Health Organization (WHO) has an online guide called “Psychological First Aid: Guide for Field Workers” that is available in several languages (including Russian and Ukrainian but not Polish). It’s designed to help humanitarian workers provide psychological first aid to “fellow human beings suffering serious crisis events.” It can be found in many languages here: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241548205

Released Statements

American Psychological Association

American Psychiatry Association

British Psychological Society

European Federation of Psychology

German Psychological Association

Organizations

International Committee of the Red Cross

International Medical Corps

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) The UN Refugee Agency

International Rescue Committee

UNICEF

Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)

Save the Children

War Child

Organisations who collaborated on collating the above resources: