Programme
Enabling Access to Mental Health in Sierra Leone
Mental Health
- Capacity building
- Advocacy
- Community sensitisation
Mental health services in Sierra Leone are extremely limited despite the massive need for mental health care. The majority of individuals experiencing mental disorders do not have access to adequate treatment and, instead, are often met with stigma and discrimination.
Enabling Access to Mental Health is a programme that aims to improve the quality of life and quality of treatment available for people with mental disorders in Sierra Leone through capacity building, advocacy and community sensitisation.
Enabling Access to Mental Health is a programme that aims to improve the quality of life and quality of treatment available for people with mental disorders in Sierra Leone through capacity building, advocacy and community sensitisation.
News - June 2012 - "Sierra Leone Nurses: Pioneers in Mental Health"
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First group of psychiatric nurses, Sierra Leone, with mhGAP books
Programme featured in mhGAP newsletter:
"Twenty-one nurses from 11 districts of Sierra Leone have distinguished themselves by being the first nurses in the country to be trained in mental health using the mhGAP Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG)." Read more in mhGAP Newsletter June 2012 (PDF, ~ 1.8MB)
"Twenty-one nurses from 11 districts of Sierra Leone have distinguished themselves by being the first nurses in the country to be trained in mental health using the mhGAP Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG)." Read more in mhGAP Newsletter June 2012 (PDF, ~ 1.8MB)
