Our Mission:

Strengthening the systems that help children and families continue developing during crisis.

Global Collective Institute is a nonprofit strategy and learning organization that discovers, tests, and strengthens locally led systems of care so that children and families can continue to develop during prolonged instability.

 
 
 
 
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What We Do

We help governments, humanitarian organizations, and philanthropies make better decisions about what to strengthen, how to invest, and how to generate lasting impact for children and families.

Discover. Invest. Learn. Advise.

We produce knowledge.

We test knowledge.

We help others use knowledge.

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Why this matters

Humanitarian organizations have made enormous progress expanding access to lifesaving services and mental health care. Yet we still know remarkably little about which locally embedded systems and practices most effectively help children and families continue developing through prolonged adversity.

 
 

The Global Problem

We are experiencing the most deeply concerning humanitarian crisis of our time: human trafficking, forced migrations, forced separation of families, and more: affecting of millions of people around the world. Global Collective Institute is playing our part to help give survivors a fighting chance to lead healthy and productive lives to deal with the emotional pain and mental toll of social injustice.

 
 

32%

refugees suffer from PTSD

PLoS Medicine, 2020

 

49M

children forcibly displaced from their homes

UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 2025

 
 

27M

Victims of human trafficking

ILO, 2021

 

Our services

Learn how Global Collective Institute can help build capacity, education, and awareness through the services we offer.

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JULY 2018

“With this policy, the focus is really on the separation part and it seems there’s very little planning or foresight about the complex processes for family tracing and reunification that has to happen,”

- Dr. Suzan Song

The Intercept / Read Full Article

 

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humanitarian child mental health training program

If you are a child mental health provider interested in working in humanitarian settings, join our upcoming training.

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