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Objectives To map the availability of services supporting child and family wellbeing in 2023 Türkiye-Syria earthquake affected provinces in Türkiye.Methods Desk review, development of interview guides and mapping tools, field visits, semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with established contacts, including families and children. To ensure methodological consistency, field visits and interviews were conducted by the same researcher with technical assistance of UNICEF Türkiye in June-July 2024. Open-ended questions and inductive approach were used to interview providers and administrative staff from local municipalities, health, education, social protection sectors and not-for-profit organizations operating in three provinces. The availability of services was mapped and summarized using developed tools.Results Results were informed by visit to 56 sites (healthcare facilities, play areas, sports complex, service hubs, container cities, rehabilitation centers, schools, living spaces) and 81 interviews lasting 20-90 minutes. Developmental monitoring, daycare and early education, responsive caregiving, promotion of parenting competence and fatherhood, and mental health services were less available in comparison to other types of services. Overall, services that support children with developmental difficulties and their families were largely insufficient to meet the needs. Services focusing on 0-3 age group and fatherhood, compared to 4-6 age, preadolescence and adolescence, motherhood, and lactation period were the scarcest.Conclusions Strengths: High internal validity supported by interviewing diverse respondents well-positioned to describe service availability and by consistent data collection by a single researcher. Limitations: Results biased towards provincial centers and engaging participants. Results were used by UNICEF to inform subsequent early childhood development programming.