About this group
The Mental Health Emotional Well-being Community of Practice (CoP) brings together Family members, practitioners, researchers, and advocates committed to strengthening children’s emotional well-being and family resilience. This community recognises mental health as foundational to child protection, family-based care, and long-term resilience, particularly in contexts affected by conflict, displacement, climate crises, poverty, and violence.
The CoP provides a collaborative space to:
- Share culturally grounded and trauma-informed practices
- Peering learning, sharing and strengthening capacity in mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS)
- Integrate mental health across priority themes (kinship care, sexual violence, children on the move, climate justice)
- Advance research, documentation, and global advocacy
We envision a global network driven by practitioners’ knowledge and locally led solutions, where mental health and psychosocial well-being are fully integrated into child protection and family care systems, and ensuring that every child and caregiver feels safe, connected, supported, and capable of coping with adversity.
How to engage in this group
- Make a post to introduce yourself to the group:
- Let us know what area of children’s care you’re working on
- Feel free to post in your native language
- Search our topics and discussions for information relevant to your work
- Join the conversation: comment, like, and reply
- See if there are any events you would like to attend
- Don’t see what you’re looking for? Start a topic!
- You can report any content that violates our community rules.