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The database of innovations catalogues comprehensive summaries of mental health programs and research projects around the world.

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MANAS

Non-specialist health worker coordinated collaborative stepped care intervention for depression and anxiety in primary care
Region: 
Asia
Population: 
Adults
Disorder: 
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
4289 reads
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Thinking Healthy Programme-Peer delivery (THPP)

Evidence-based intervention for perinatal depression incorporating cognitive and behavioural techniques delivered through peers
Region: 
Asia
Population: 
Maternal and neonatal health
Disorder: 
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
3876 reads
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Partnerships For Mental Health Development In Sub-Saharan Africa: COllaborative Shared care to IMprove Psychosis Outcome (COSIMPO)

A collaborative care program between Traditional/Faith Healers (TFH) and Primary Health Care Providers (PHCPs)
Region: 
Africa
624 reads
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Critical Time Intervention – Task Shifting (CTI-TS) in Chile and Brazil

Adaptation of the Critical Time Intervention model to employ peer support workers and coordination with primary healthcare centers
Region: 
South America
Population: 
Adults
Families and carers
Disorder: 
Psychosis/bipolar disorder
871 reads
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Latin America Treatment & Innovation Network in Mental Health — LATIN-MH

Using app-based technology to reduce depressive symptoms in people with co-morbid depression and hypertension/diabetes
1006 reads
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5 Pillars Approach to Maternal Psychosocial Well-Being

Evidence-based intervention that improves the psychosocial well-being of mothers
Region: 
Asia
Population: 
Maternal and neonatal health
Disorder: 
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
3155 reads
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Scaling up the BasicNeeds Model through a social franchise approach

BasicNeeds Model for Mental Health and Development & The Social Franchise Business Model
Region: 
Africa
Disorder: 
All disorders
930 reads
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Using mobile mental health clinics to expand access to services in post conflict rural areas

Use of mobile clinics, service user owned pharmacies, and Psychological First Aid to increase access to mental health services
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Humanitarian and conflict health
Disorder: 
Epilepsy/seizures
Alcohol/drug use disorders
3682 reads
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Using mhGAP-IG on mobile phones for frontline healthcare workers to manage depression in Kenya

Integrating e-medicine into routine practice to increase access to treatment for depression
Region: 
Africa
Disorder: 
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
2375 reads
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Mental Health System Reform in Jordan

Mental health reform focusing on shifting attention from a humanitarian agenda to a development agenda
Region: 
Middle East
Disorder: 
All disorders
2675 reads
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Gauteng Consumer Advocacy Movement

A user-led movement empowering consumers to advocate on their own behalf
Region: 
Africa
1103 reads
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Mental Health First Aid

12-hour training courses in communities on mental health using the first aid model
Region: 
Africa
Middle East
North America
Central America and the Caribbean
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Population: 
Adults
Families and carers
Disorder: 
All disorders
3303 reads
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Putting a telepsychiatrist in communities in the Union of Comoros

Integration of screening and core services packages into routine primary healthcare to increase evidence-based care
Region: 
Africa
Disorder: 
Epilepsy/seizures
Psychosis/bipolar disorder
684 reads
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Improving mental health care for young people using e-health

Integrated e-health interventions to increase awareness in young adults, community health workers and healthcare providers
Region: 
Middle East
Asia
Population: 
Children and adolescents
Adults
2971 reads
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Mental Health System Reform in Afghanistan

Mental health reform focusing on integration into primary healthcare and training health workers
Region: 
Middle East
Asia
Population: 
Humanitarian and conflict health
2844 reads
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Targeting family violence through a network of mental health community services

Integration of a diverse range of psychosocial and psycho-educational interventions rendered by informal caregivers
Region: 
Central America and the Caribbean
Population: 
Children and adolescents
Families and carers
Disorder: 
Child behavioural and developmental disorders
609 reads
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Giving LIFE a chance

Development of a culturally appropriate psychosocial intervention to address mental health symptoms associated with suicidal thoughts and/or behaviour
Region: 
South America
Population: 
Children and adolescents
Adults
Families and carers
Disorder: 
Self-harm/suicide
1127 reads
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Going Off, Growing Strong

A community-led program co-created with youth highly at-risk for suicide based on intergenerational healing through the transmission of Inuit skills
Region: 
North America
Population: 
Children and adolescents
Minority populations
Disorder: 
Child behavioural and developmental disorders
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
Alcohol/drug use disorders
Self-harm/suicide
2387 reads
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Mental Health Coalition – Sierra Leone

The founding and development of the first mental health coalition in Sierra Leone
Region: 
Africa
Disorder: 
All disorders
4877 reads
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Self-Help Groups for Mental Health

A network of self-help groups running in the Upper East Region of northern Ghana
Region: 
Africa
2278 reads
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Mental Health Scale Up Nigeria (mhSUN)

Use of existing mental health centres of excellence to support decentralised (district and primary care) services
Region: 
Africa
Disorder: 
All disorders
2276 reads
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Improving access to care for people with epilepsy through Domestic Health Visitors

Understanding the effectiveness of the Domestic Health Visitors (DHV) approach to increase access to treatment for people with epilepsy.
Region: 
Asia
Disorder: 
Epilepsy/seizures
455 reads
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Parent mediated Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorders in South Asia Plus (PASS Plus)

To use the task sharing approach to detect and deliver early intervention for a neurodevelopmental disorder
Region: 
Asia
Population: 
Children and adolescents
Disorder: 
Child behavioural and developmental disorders
1196 reads
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Integrating Mental Healthcare into General Healthcare in Aceh

Achieving sustainable community mental health services in a poor resource setting.
Region: 
Asia
Population: 
Humanitarian and conflict health
Disorder: 
All disorders
741 reads
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Cell Phones and Psychosis: A pilot study connecting traditional healers and bio-medical staff in rural Tanzania

Utilizing mobile devices to bridge the gap between two vastly different models of care in the treatment of psychosis
Region: 
Africa
Disorder: 
Psychosis/bipolar disorder
1991 reads
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Rogers Achievement Centre (Operation Come Home)

Mental health and addictions support integrated into a transitional education model
Region: 
North America
Population: 
Children and adolescents
Disorder: 
Child behavioural and developmental disorders
442 reads
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Creating A New Channel For Mental Health Delivery To Filipinos With Mood Disorders

Use of paraprofessionals to deliver mindfulness-based therapy as a basis for scalable mental healthcare
Region: 
Asia
Population: 
Children and adolescents
Disorder: 
Psychosis/bipolar disorder
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
642 reads
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mhGAP Implementation in Lagos

A collaborative stepped-care intervention for depression based on mhGAP using non-specialists health workers
Region: 
Africa
Disorder: 
All disorders
1773 reads
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Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (Phase II) in Palestine

Five year plan including deinstitutionalization, decentralization of care, redistribution of resources and integration of services
Region: 
Middle East
Population: 
Humanitarian and conflict health
Disorder: 
All disorders
2223 reads
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Mental Health System Reform in Kosovo

Mental health reform strategy with focus on strengthening community based mental health services
Region: 
Europe
2715 reads

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World Health Organization

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