Innovations

Integrating mental health services in primary and maternal care centres through a task-sharing approach.

An 18-module group intervention with young people implemented by peer-facilitators.

Lay workers providing evidence-based treatment to Burmese trauma survivors in Thailand.

Integrating mental health service delivery into primary health care system in Nepal through a health systems strengthening approach in partnership with researchers, ministries of health and non-governmental organisations.

The adaptation and implementation of WHO’s School Mental Health Program through an online training platform and chat-bot for school teachers in Pakistan.

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

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.

An embedded curriculum resource delivered to students by trained teachers.

Action-oriented, community-based public health interventions.

Use of trained lay healthcare workers and technology to overcome limitations in the delivery of mental health services to youth.

Combined intervention of cognitive behavioral therapy for maternal depression and psychosocial stimulation training for mother-child dyads

Shared Housing in scattered neighbourhoods with supportive services facilitated by an on site lay worker.

Use of mobile phones to provide guidance to community mobilizers on how to promote wellbeing, and to detect common mental disorders and mental illness.