Innovations

The programme aimed to improve the local capacity response to meet the MHPSS needs of Dominica’s disaster-affected populations.

Training healthcare staff and paraprofessionals to provide mental healthcare and expand community and family supports

To build evidence for and strengthen peer support interventions for people with severe mental illness.

The programme provides mental health rehabilitation for economically disadvantaged populations through accessible and affordable services in the community setting.

To pilot an innovative QualityRights intervention in private facilities providing mental health services.

A nurse-led approach within a non-specialist setting was a successful model for delivering mental health and psychosocial support services during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.

mhGAP training for lay health workers in Edawu to assess and manage mental health conditions and promote mental health awareness in the community.

Implementation of residential support or ‘Hogar Protegido’ (the first ‘protected home’ in Lima) for people with chronic mental illness.

Educator training to provide the knowledge and tools to increase early identification and treatment access for adolescents.

Community based rehabilitation (CBR), which involves working with individuals, families, and communities.

A program that delivers daily supportive text messages to subscribers’ mobile phones.

Action-oriented, community-based public health interventions.

Adaptation and testing of an evidence-based psychosocial intervention for family members affected by a relative's alcohol use, delivered by lay counsellors in a low resource setting.

Scale-up of innovative model engaging and educating community health workers, traditional, and faith healers to identify suspected cases of mental illness, build awareness, and combat stigma within rural communities.