Innovations

Los Círculos de Mujeres, diseñados conjuntamente y liderados por la comunidad, nutren la fuerza innata de las mujeres y las comunidades a través de una serie de actividades grupales que promueven el bienestar, reducen el estrés, fortalecen las relaciones y apoyan a las mujeres para convertirse en agentes de cambio.

Using an adapted Community-based Sociotherapy approach to reduce depressive symptomology in Congolese refugees.

Integrating MHPSS services at the community level in order to enhance service access for populations at risk of severe mental distress and to reduce the linked dual-stigma of mental health conditions and gender-based violence.

A holistic program for young people integrating capacity-building for social justice on mental health within school-based settings.

Development and pilot evaluation of an integrated intervention that targets IPV and its psycho-social health consequences in a refugee camp within a low-income setting.

The RISING SUN toolkit was the culmination of a community-based and consensus-building process to identify common outcomes and their measures for evaluating suicide prevention efforts across the circumpolar North.

A multimedia self-help package delivered by facilitators with minimal training.

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

Successful establishment of a National Mental Health Programme through merging of humanitarian and development agendas

A participatory network approach, and a technical assistance approach, to implement quality improvement (QI) on clients’ mental health-related quality of life (HRQL) and services use.