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The Partners In Health (PIH) Cross-Site Mental Health Program supports mental health program development at all the PIH global sites. PIHās work in mental health is unique in the field of global health for the ways we create and strengthen community-based, primary care, and hospital-linked mental health systems to provide mental health services for complex and co-morbid common and severe mental health conditions in settings where there are few to no services available. PIH has responded to humanitarian crises as opportunities to strengthen health systems to build back better following catastrophic events, demonstrating the feasibility of task-shared, locally adapted, collaborative, comprehensive and community-based services for the long term in āreal-worldā settings. Since 2009, PIH has created a substantial, measurable, innovative global mental health care delivery model that has the potential to be scaled up nationally in partnership with local communities, governments, and Ministries of Health.
The Partners In Health Cross-Site Mental Health Program aligns mental health service delivery, training, and research, and optimizes academic opportunities with partner institutions.
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Our Vision: To improve the lives of the patients and communities we serve by expanding mental health and psychosocial support services across the PIH Mental Health Value chain at all PIH care delivery sites around the globe and the US.
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Our Mission:Ā To improve the quality of clinical mental health care and support, accompany care delivery site teams in program development and management, facilitate meaningful cross-site collaborations and knowledge exchange to improve best practices, and advance global mental health equity and delivery through a comprehensive approach to addressing the care of people living with mental health conditions.
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Our model is established on the following four key pillars:
- Clinical care, and the training, clinical supervision and mentorship needed to support it, as mental health care requires human beings who are prepared and ready for the difficult challenge
- Program management and technical advisement on optimal use of resources in context;
- Meaningful data collection with monitoring and evaluation, quality improvement, and research support
- Shared learning, knowledge sharing, and mutual support, both in person, and using technology with the Cross-Site Mental Health Learning Collaborative.