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.

A methodology to strengthen communities, by addressing the bio-psycho-social-spiritual dimensions of individuals.

Integración nacional de la detección y el tratamiento de la depresión en atención primaria

Program that utilizes low-literacy, multicultural pictorial calendars to provide vital information on early child development.

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

Action-oriented, community-based public health interventions.

Promoting a novel community-based mental health care delivery model in rural Haiti and building a national scale-up plan.

A comprehensive recovery-oriented anti-stigma intervention developed for primary health care centres in Peru.

A low-cost teacher-training programme to improve teachers’ classroom management skills called ‘The Irie Classrooms Toolbox’

Use of schools as a hub for mental health education and early intervention

Adaptation of the Critical Time Intervention model to employ peer support workers and coordination with primary healthcare centers

Integration of a diverse range of psychosocial and psycho-educational interventions rendered by informal caregivers

Conscious Discipline program implementation, which addresses child maltreatment while disseminating a “Conscious Discipline Meme” through a new cadre of workers