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Oct 31 2024 / Posted in Adolescence

EHSAS initiated a celebration with communities through a campaign driven to raise conversations around mental health.

The month of October witnessed Mental Health Festivals, Awareness Raising Campaigns and Social Media Creatives built for the same. EHSAS celebrated the World Mental Health Week, both, virtually and on ground with different community stakeholders.

*Kalwa team exploring with adolescents post the emoji drawing activity*

*Our HumRaahi (Non Specialist Mental Health Youth Worker) captured at the photo booth at Kalwa*

*Adolescents at Kalwa raise sketched smileys to depict the variety of emotions they experience*

*Mental Health Festivals organised across centres by coming together of youth, interns and staff of EHSAS*

*Our Clinical Psychologist in conversation with women from Kalwa about understanding mental health. Conversations with 389 parents had taken place across centres.*

*Our Clinical Psychologist and Community Organizer awarding a participant of the drawing activity at the Kandivali*

*HumRaahis contextualizing mental health through a street play themed around Mental Health awareness*

*Our Community Organizer capturing an adolescent posing at the photo booth installed at the Kandivali Mental Health Festival*

*Our Youth Non Specialist Mental Health workers (HumRaahis) conducting myth busting through a mental health Ludo game*

*Adolescent from Kandivali envisions the Right to Mental Health*

*Youth and Staff from Kandivali post presenting a Street Play around Mental Health and its importance*

*Dharavi Program Co-ordinator poses at the Mental Health photo booth installed at the Fest*

*Adolescent depicts mental health distress through a drawing at Dharavi Mental Health Festival*

*Participants collectively expressing their impressions of Mental Health at the Dharavi Mental Health Festival*

*Dharavi witnesses stalls installed to initiate learning through fun brought to them by staff and HumRaahis*

*Dharavi team and adolescents flaunt their mental health visions and perceptions vividly*

*EHSAS staff hosting the Dharavi Mental Health Festival. Participation of 330 people was seen across the 3 centres during the three festival days*

*Our MEast staff and interns post conducting a Mental Health Awareness session with the 32 Police Officers at the Mankhurd Police Station*

*Our Program Co-ordinator conducting a mental health awareness campaign at a health post. 15 Health Posts and 295 of their staff were involved*

*Our Program Officer discussing mental health indicators with School Teachers. We reached out to 9 schools and conversed with 91 teachers*

Our team of 50 HumRaahis, Clinical Psychologists and staff also participated in Canva Creatives Workshop and put together an awareness campaign online, leveraging Instagram. They made posters, reels, myth busting polls and welcome videos for their offline events, available on SNEHA’s Instagram account.