ICSSPE & Partners to Release Handbook in 2014

Sport and Physical Activities as Psycho-Social Interventions handbook will be published in May 2014.

A practical handbook, aimed at humanitarian aid workers, is due to be released in May 2014. It will include background information on psychosocial intervention as well as different guidelines on how to better implement sport and physical activities in practice (activity cards will be available). Katrin Koenen, head of the project at ICSSPE, states: "With this project, ICSSPE is extending its outreach to other areas of civil society, namely to healthcare professionals, humanitarian aid workers, etc... This handbook, which has been developed in cooperation with the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the Swiss Academy for Development and the Technical University of Munich, will demonstrate how this can be accomplished."

A comprehensive information section will provide systematic information on the following: Planning training sessions, Being aware of health and safety, Avoiding conflict and violence, Forming and organising teams, Developing new games and activities, Principles of comprehensive and sustainable project planning, Using and developing sporting equipment, First principles of psychological first aid, Transferring knowledge of basic principles of psychosocial support, Supporting appropriate monitoring and evaluation of interventions. (source: SAD website, see link below)

The English version of the handbook will be the first released and distributed worldwide. It will be available in other languages (French, Spanish and Danish) shortly after.  An online version is also planned.

For more information on SPAPSI, feel free to contact Katrin Koenen: kkoenenicsspe.org

Partners: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Psychosocial Centre - http://www.pscentre.org/library/training-materials/ Swiss Academy for Development - http://www.sad.ch/en/projects/235-spapsi-sport-and-physical-activities-a... Technical University of Munich - http://www.sportpaedagogik.sg.tum.de/index.php?id=1163

More information: Marianne Meier presentation (TUM, 2012): http://www.roteskreuz.at/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF/ENPS/AF2012/18_ENPS_A...