With 2022 coming to a close, we wanted to reflect on our past year.
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While this was the third year of the pandemic, it was also another year of having learnt how to live with it with agility. We are grateful to our partners, funders, friends, well-wishers, and communities for their continued encouragement and support.
2022 also marks fifteen years of the Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy, and 100 years of the Indian Law Society, our legal entity. We would like to acknowledge our team, new and old, who bring their unique strengths and dedication while working to advance our goals.
We are delighted to have recently received a 2-year grant to develop our core capacities in fundraising, communications and human resources. Over the next two years we will build our capabilities across these functions with a view to grow, sustain and enhance the impact of our interventions and to achieve our strategic priorities.
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Scaling-up Atmiyata to newer geographies
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Earlier this year, we entered a partnership with Hasiru Dala, a social impact organisation that works with waste pickers and other informal waste workers, to pilot the Atmiyata intervention in Bangalore’s urban slums.
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We also received a 3-year grant to scale-up the Atmiyata intervention to one more district in Gujarat to reach an adult population of approximately 1.3 million.
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Atmiyata continues to work with rural communities in 530 villages in Mehsana, and 101 villages across Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, and Himachal Pradesh, reaching a total adult population of 1 million.
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Atmiyata has also been featured in the Oxford Textbook of Social Psychiatry, 2022.
Read more about Atmiyata
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CASP—Contact and Safety Planning for Suicide Prevention, Chhattisgarh
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We received a 3-year grant from Mariwala Health Initiative, India, for our new project: CASP—Contact and Safety Planning. CASP is a health system intervention that will pilot test a contact and safety planning intervention to reduce suicide attempts among adults with a recent history of attempted suicide.
Read more about CASP
This adds to our existing work with the Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Chhattisgarh, where we have been providing technical assistance for the implementation of the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, and leading an adolescent suicide prevention program in the State.
Read more about ENGAGE
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Suicide Prevention workshops with police personnel, Bhubaneswar
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Police Commissionerate Office, Bhubaneswar
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Our team conducted a workshop with senior police officials at the Police Commissionerate Office, Odisha, Bhubaneswar, on ‘Suicide Prevention and the scope of Law Enforcement Agencies’.
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Biju Patnaik State Police Academy, Bhubaneswar
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We also trained police personnel at the Biju Patnaik State Police Academy, Bhubaneswar, on ‘Understanding Mental Health and Workplace-based Interventions for Suicide Prevention’.
Read more
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National Level Training of State Trainers on Adolescent-Friendly Health Services, RKSK
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Our team has trained 150 representatives from all States and Union Territories on suicide prevention concepts for adolescents, as a part of the curriculum for National Level Training of State Trainers on Adolescent-Friendly Health Services, under the flagship program of Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
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World Suicide Prevention Month
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To commemorate World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September 2022) and highlight the role of diverse stakeholders such as suicide prevention experts, policymakers, government officials, media, persons with lived experience, and the public at-large, we organised a range of activities.
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Online Panel Discussion
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Awareness campaign with community members in Mehsana, Gujarat
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Suicide Prevention workshop for schoolteachers in Pune
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Hope through Action Festival for young people, parents and caregivers
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#MediaForSuicidePrevention | Social Media Campaign
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Project SIREN award for journalists, 2022
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Awarded to Hirra Azmat, Reporter,
The Kashmir Monitor
Project SIREN is an initiative of the Keshav Desiraju India Mental Health Observatory to monitor the media’s reporting of suicide and assure their adherence to WHO’s suicide reporting guidelines.
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Since April 2020, we have evaluated 14,055 articles across 30 highest-read English language dailies and popular online publications, in India. We would like to thank our research interns for their hard work on the project.
Read more about Project SIREN
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Gatekeeper Training Course for Suicide Prevention
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In our bid to aid suicide prevention efforts and engage with various stakeholders, we launched the Gatekeeper Training Course for Suicide Prevention. Based on WHO’s mhGAP (Mental Health Gap Action Programme) Intervention Guide for Self-harm/ Suicide, the course content has been adapted by SPIRIT for community gatekeepers.
Learn more about our courses
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Keshav Desiraju India Mental Health Observatory
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In memory of Mr Keshav Desiraju and his vision for an improved mental health system, the India Mental Health Observatory was renamed as the Keshav Desiraju India Mental Health Observatory, supported by Thakur Family Foundation.
Know more about Keshav Desiraju IMHO
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MHCA Implementation Tracker
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A resource tool to track the implementation status of the MHCA 2017 across the Centre, States and Union Territories.
View Implementation Tracker
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An initiative to make data and information on mental health and disability related laws, policies and programmes accessible.
View Public Archive
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With support from Mariwala Health Initiative, we launched the MHCA 2017 App, a resource tool and easy-read guide that explains the MHCA’s provisions in a simple and easy manner.
650+ downloads across GooglePlay and Apple App Store
Download MHCA 2017 App
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Keshav Desiraju Memorial Award for Outstanding Public Service in Mental Health
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To honour the life and legacy of Mr Keshav Desiraju, we instituted the Keshav Desiraju Memorial Award for Outstanding Public Service in Mental Health, in association with Thakur Family Foundation.
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This is an annual award that aims to recognise the contribution and efforts of individuals in government service, who embody similar values as Mr Desiraju, and through their work are regarded as allies in making advances in the field of mental health in India.
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The recipient of this year’s award is Ajay Chauhan for his distinctive and dedicated work in advancing mental health in the State of Gujarat.
Know more about the award
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As we step into the new year, we will remain focused towards our mission of strengthening and transforming the mental health of our communities to be holistic and responsive in addressing individual and collective well-being.
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