WHO Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Capacity Building workshop in Tunisia, 20-23 February 2023
A Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Capacity Building workshop, ‘Building Better Before: Scaling up capacity for mental health and psychosocial support preparedness’ was organised by the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Use on 20-23 February 2023 at the WHO Global Centre for Training in Tunis Tunisia.
This 4-day workshop delivered multiple exercises that focused on developing multisectoral preparedness for real-world hazards to stimulate response actions and coordination through live interjections and case developments. Dr Ryoma Kayano, Technical Officer, from the WHO Kobe Centre participated in this workshop and provided technical support. Dr Kayano said ‘Implementing MHPSS services is more important than ever in the current global situation. This workshop provided a great opportunity to learn and discuss with delegates from many different countries and organisations who could operationalise the MHPSS preparedness approaches to integrate and scale up MHPSS preparedness planning activities at national level or in the filed.’.
Video recordings for the workshop will be available soon.