Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)
Promote mental health and psychosocial support during and post emergency.
Clinical mental health care, community-based psychosocial support, and trauma rehabilitation — delivered through trained counsellors and local lay workers.
BCC uses Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) as its primary entry point for programming. Through this approach, the organization delivers structured, culturally responsive interventions that strengthen individuals’ wellbeing, improve coping capacities, and social functioning among vulnerable communities. MHPSS serves as a gateway to integrated outcome across protection, education, livelihoods, and research. The department supports individuals, families, schools, and communities affected by trauma, stress, substance use, behavioral challenges, school distress, disasters, displacement, conflict, and other psychosocial crises.
The department also strengthens community resilience and preparedness systems by integrating psychosocial support into disaster risk management, emergency response, conflict recovery, and crisis stabilization mechanisms. Through prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery approaches, the department helps vulnerable populations cope with shocks while reducing long-term mental health risks.
- Promotion of Wellbeing and Prevention: MHPSS strengthens mental wellbeing, coping skills, and resilience while reducing risk factors such as trauma, stress, and violence. This helps prevent the development or worsening of mental health and psychosocial problems across communities.
- Psychosocial Support and Early Intervention: MHPSS provides basic support such as psychological first aid, counselling, and group support. It enables early identification of distress and ensures timely response before conditions escalate.
- Capacity Building and Referral Systems: MHPSS equips community actors and frontline workers with basic psychosocial skills and establishes referral pathways to specialized services. This strengthens service delivery across all sectors and ensures continuity of care.
- Stigma Reduction and Community Strengthening: MHPSS promotes awareness, reduces stigma, and builds supportive community systems. This improves access to services and strengthens social cohesion, which is essential for sustainable recovery and development.
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Protection Services
Survivor-centred case management, GBV response, child protection and referral pathways built on trust, confidentiality and dignity.
Education and Inclusion
Inclusive learning environments, teacher training and tailored support so children with and without disabilities can learn together.
Agriculture and Livelihoods
Seeds, tools, training and savings groups — so households can feed themselves, earn an income, and weather the next shock.
Research and Innovation
The Research and MEAL area is a cross-cutting technical unit that supports all Brain Care Consult (BCC) programs, consultancy assignments, and strategic decision-making through evidence generation, analysis, and learning.