NIMHANS-SAMVAD (Support, Advocacy & Mental health interventions for children in Vulnerable circumstances And Distress) is organising 4 part series for capacity building targeting child protection functionaries in English (between 15th -22nd May) and Hindi (25th-31st May). This 4-part Special Series “Children in COVID Crisis…Like We Never Expected It to Be: The What and How of Working with Child Protection and Psychosocial Issues” will address the new imperatives of child protection and psychosocial issues emerging in the second, more severe wave of the COVID 19 pandemic. The Webinar series aims to equip caregivers and service providers such as teachers, institution staff, protection functionaries, mental health professionals and others with requisite skills and methods as they strive to support children during these difficult and uncertain times. Building on systematic ways to address child protection risks, the series moves on to provide ways to respond to children’s illness, worries and anxieties; finally, given the new challenges of illness and loss of loved ones, that children have to contend with, the later parts of the series provide caregivers and service providers with concrete methods to break the bad news to children and help them process experiences of loss and grief, thereafter.