Personal safety and well-being as a continuum of care: promising approaches from across the well-being continuum

Group Submission Type: Formal Panel Session

Proposal

As social, political, economic and climate-related crises grow in number, extent and complexity world-wide, learners, caregivers and their families increasingly struggle to cope with rapid and often traumatic shocks and stresses caused by conflict, climate disasters, and political instability. These struggles affect individuals’ ability to develop caring relationships, learn, care for loved ones, and positively adapt to challenges. At the same time, members of the global Education in Crisis and Conflict community have become increasingly aware of the need for a deeper and different approach to supporting the social and emotional well-being of the populations they serve, one that moves away from stove-piped ways of thinking that segment social-emotional learning, psycho-social support, and mental health interventions into different categories and even sub-sectors, and toward a more integrated understanding that social and emotional well-being needs and support approaches can be understood and programmed as part of a more holistic continuum of care. This panel presents the EDC Social and Emotional Well-Being Framework as one example of such a continuum, then describes promising intervention approaches from 4 elements of this continuum, ranging from safety to social-emotional learning, to psycho support and finally, to mental health education.

Sub Unit

• General Pool

Chair

• Cornelia Janke, Education Development Center

Individual Presentations

• Overview of the EDC International Division’s Well-Being Framework - Cornelia Janke, Education Development Center

• Safety tier: Addressing school-related gender-based violence through Journeys HIV/GBV prevention program and early warning system to address school dropout and violence - Makanga Herman, Education Development Center EDC

• DREAMS Ambassadors: Experiences from a peer-based psychosocial support approach for secondary school girls in South Africa - Alisha Keirstead, Education Development Center (Edc)