Re-Vision

Workplace Mental Health:

MHI launched a toolkit for corporate workplaces called Mental Wellbeing at the Workplace. The toolkit addresses mental health in the workplace by providing a framework that challenges the narrative that it is an individual issue. Instead, it introduces the concept of ecosystem stressors and how an organisation’s culture and ways of working can lead to mental health issues among employees.

Suicide Prevention Initiatives:

A groundbreaking report titled Suicide Prevention: Changing the Narrative was also released, which centred around building a comprehensive approach to tackling suicide in India. The report covers critical methods and evidence-based strategies for suicide prevention. It also offers tangible steps that various stakeholders can take to prevent suicides.

The Alliance for Suicide Prevention (ASP):

Seeded by MHI, the ASP brings together stakeholders, including organisations, activists, funders, researchers, and policymakers, to work collaboratively on preventing suicide at the individual and community levels.

Gender and Sexuality-Based Initiatives:

We published The Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice (QACP): A Resource Book for Mental Health Practitioners in India, the first of a series of anti-oppressive practice resource manuals for practitioners, educators and students, and those working on gender and sexuality. MHI also launched Building Allyship: The Mental Health Community and LGBTQI+ Rights – a report that showcases the queer affirmative mental health work undertaken during a High Court Judgement. The resource book is a guiding tool for mental health practitioners who want to build allyship and promote LGBTQI+ rights.

International Peer Support Practice:

Our first international peer workshop had activists from 10 South and South-East Asian countries. In collaboration with Asia Pacific Transgender Network, the workshop focussed on sharing systems and tools for participants to provide mental health support to their queer-trans community.

Youth Mental Health:

MHI collaborated with the Asia and South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education (ASPBAE), a regional network of more than 200 civil society organisations and individuals in 30 countries in the Asia-Pacific region to provide training to build capacities of researchers on youth mental health. The training was translated into four languages and ASL for this cohort of 45 young people from 12 nations.