INTEGRATED MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE
Current and on-going activities:
• Regular studies and analyses on mental health related subjects.
• Home visits and home based care.
Sustainability strategy and lessons:
• Community ownership and mainstreaming mental health services in the main vessel of health care delivery.
• Representation of mental health concerns in key areas of health administration and policy formulation.
• Formation of mental health clubs and associations -with which to build capacity and help reduce pressure on existing manpower while helping to reduce adverse impact caused by mental poor health -characterising violence, abuse and neglect of family and social responsibilities.
• Integrate major predisposing factors to mental illnesses such as human rights abuses, environmental degradation, ignorance and poor socioeconomic environment to lessen vulnerability and promote economic and general mental well being.
• Beneficiaries will be grouped in viable economic forces to gain economic, social and participation power so as to recover fully from economic and psychological depression -in addition to strengthening mental abilities to adjust towards and forth from any degree of depression (Mental health empowerment).
• After working for the parent organisation, they are graduated to manage their own businesses with minimal supervision.
• The IMI continues to thrive from the shared resources to run organisations projects further ahead with remits from its internal investments build from tapping from the mighty talents and skills of its clients.
Replicability:
• After three years of clients working with IMI, they are prepared to enter a one year transition into gaining administrative independence so that they can run and thrive on their own using the proceeds gained from working for the parent organization (IMI) plus a booster grant of 500USD -given to them.
• First by widening resources base through renewable resource strategy, direct engagement with potential funding, utilise local engagement -to raise resources for self-help, and investment in its accumulated assets for sustainable revenue and self-funding as well as maximise private consultations. In line with increased resource base, the organisation, which now operates at district level, will initialize country-wide, regional, inter-regional, and global mental health facilities for it service and products utilization.
Best practices:
• Improve office infrastructure,
• Support sessions so that we do not have to charge fees to needy clients,
• Reach out to communities who cannot make it to our offices,
• Provide free food and clothings to beneficiaries,
• Support self-sustenance of our beneficiaries,
• Provide basic literacy trainings to children and youth,
• Support mental empowerment programme for our beneficiaries -including youths, parents and local leaders.
• First by widening resources base through renewable resource strategy, direct engagement with potential funding, utilize local engagement -to raise resources for self-help, and investment in its accumulated assets for sustainable revenue and self-funding as well as maximize private consultations. In line with increased resource base, the organisation, which now operates at district level, will initialize country-wide, regional, inter-regional, and global mental health facilities for it service and products utilization.
Way forward:
Future IMI will provide entrance for sustained healing and empower affected individuals to cope with the wider worldly challenges, brave the test, find mechanisms for problem solving and overcoming them so that they emerge victorious and happy yet mentally well. IMI in its response relishes multi-systemic and multi-ideological strategies to transform afflictions of individuals, groups, communities, nationals, and regions for into drivers of mental and general wellbeing. Without such amount of leadership that rallies forces and professional responses towards social, economic, governance and individual afflictions, communities like any other organism will endlessly be threatened by misery and extermination from life while adding more pressure to already vulnerable sections of society, unable to cope with macro development pressures and overcome them in order to be mentally well –with established comprehensive mental healing infrastructure under IMI that, after chronic stages of mental illness, gives caregivers support; community is prepared on how best to relate with vulnerable members, leadership is lobbied to allocate resources, and support vulnerable communities physical and spiritual needs with ties to mental illness, and mental and skills training for vulnerable sections of the community.
Current and on-going activities:
• Regular studies and analyses on mental health related subjects.
• Home visits and home based care.
• Psychotherapy sessions.
• Mindfulness practice for mental development and peaceful states of the mind and the environment
• Caregiver training.
• Community sensitisation for mental health empowerment.
• Partnerships and collaborations for conducting interventions and resources mobilisation.
• Formation of community mental health clubs for self-help and achieve self-sufficiency.
• Capacity building for organisations, community leaders, teachers and parents.
• Strengthening development linkages and form affiliation for clients, supported communities and auxiliary mental health services reinforcers.
• Streamlining mental health practices among development agencies and grass root organisations.
• Monitoring and learning.
• Integration of best practices in programing.
• Competency and professional development for staff and updates and newly developed psychotherapeutic programmes.
• Advocacies and campaigns to promote public mental health.
IMI Experience (Lessons):
The mind was the vehicle for achieving the highest of goals, including public health goals. However, mental illness from across the globe was increasingly evident highly contagious. The sick and neglected environment set the stage for the trials and tribulations. Healing needed integration. The macro level conditions provided trying moments for individuals to either be subdued or to subdue and prevail. It was those who failed to overcome the conditions that suffered. And both preventive and healing medicines were rendered ineffective. Life after chronic stage was not catered for, yet clinical conditions were insufficient without aspects of environment and spiritual diagnostics of mental illnesses. Without dealing with macro level conditions, mental health care was not care at all. Stronger attention ought to focus on institutional net-working and cooperation with related institutions and persons combining forces to realize the project’s goal, through carrying out annual national-wide conferences on conflict resolution, international relations and nurturing peace as gateways to human and ecological security as well as initiating community-led and support development infrastructure to reduce vulnerability to mental dysfunction and prosperity for all. Such conferences formulate adoptable guidelines, legislative or legal structural designs and policies for local and international managers for use in decision-making processes. The project membership and affiliation was unlimited (consisting of its staff, hired experts, researchers, volunteers, interns, guest speakers, collaborating institutions, etc) in nature, since we all need one another in the struggle for human and ecological rights and entitled to them. In its interventional programmes, the project has interests and undertakings in spirituality (faiths, beliefs or religious sects); mental and general health, including socio-cultural, socio-environmental, ecological, socio-economical, and socio-political spheres for general well being and functioning of the communities in their day-to-day lives.Sustainability strategy and lessons:
• Community ownership and mainstreaming mental health services in the main vessel of health care delivery.
• Representation of mental health concerns in key areas of health administration and policy formulation.
• Formation of mental health clubs and associations -with which to build capacity and help reduce pressure on existing manpower while helping to reduce adverse impact caused by mental poor health -characterising violence, abuse and neglect of family and social responsibilities.
• Integrate major predisposing factors to mental illnesses such as human rights abuses, environmental degradation, ignorance and poor socioeconomic environment to lessen vulnerability and promote economic and general mental well being.
• Beneficiaries will be grouped in viable economic forces to gain economic, social and participation power so as to recover fully from economic and psychological depression -in addition to strengthening mental abilities to adjust towards and forth from any degree of depression (Mental health empowerment).
• After working for the parent organisation, they are graduated to manage their own businesses with minimal supervision.
• The IMI continues to thrive from the shared resources to run organisations projects further ahead with remits from its internal investments build from tapping from the mighty talents and skills of its clients.
Replicability:
• After three years of clients working with IMI, they are prepared to enter a one year transition into gaining administrative independence so that they can run and thrive on their own using the proceeds gained from working for the parent organization (IMI) plus a booster grant of 500USD -given to them.
• First by widening resources base through renewable resource strategy, direct engagement with potential funding, utilise local engagement -to raise resources for self-help, and investment in its accumulated assets for sustainable revenue and self-funding as well as maximise private consultations. In line with increased resource base, the organisation, which now operates at district level, will initialize country-wide, regional, inter-regional, and global mental health facilities for it service and products utilization.
Best practices:
• Improve office infrastructure,
• Support sessions so that we do not have to charge fees to needy clients,
• Reach out to communities who cannot make it to our offices,
• Provide free food and clothings to beneficiaries,
• Support self-sustenance of our beneficiaries,
• Provide basic literacy trainings to children and youth,
• Support mental empowerment programme for our beneficiaries -including youths, parents and local leaders.
• First by widening resources base through renewable resource strategy, direct engagement with potential funding, utilize local engagement -to raise resources for self-help, and investment in its accumulated assets for sustainable revenue and self-funding as well as maximize private consultations. In line with increased resource base, the organisation, which now operates at district level, will initialize country-wide, regional, inter-regional, and global mental health facilities for it service and products utilization.
Way forward:
Future IMI will provide entrance for sustained healing and empower affected individuals to cope with the wider worldly challenges, brave the test, find mechanisms for problem solving and overcoming them so that they emerge victorious and happy yet mentally well. IMI in its response relishes multi-systemic and multi-ideological strategies to transform afflictions of individuals, groups, communities, nationals, and regions for into drivers of mental and general wellbeing. Without such amount of leadership that rallies forces and professional responses towards social, economic, governance and individual afflictions, communities like any other organism will endlessly be threatened by misery and extermination from life while adding more pressure to already vulnerable sections of society, unable to cope with macro development pressures and overcome them in order to be mentally well –with established comprehensive mental healing infrastructure under IMI that, after chronic stages of mental illness, gives caregivers support; community is prepared on how best to relate with vulnerable members, leadership is lobbied to allocate resources, and support vulnerable communities physical and spiritual needs with ties to mental illness, and mental and skills training for vulnerable sections of the community.
