Empower India
A Sangath Initiative
Using Technology to build India’s Mental Health Workforce
EMPOWER aims to enhance the capabilities of the healthcare system in addressing mental health issues through prevention and care. The primary goal of the initiative is to utilize digital training tools for educating and assisting frontline health workers in administering evidence-based psychosocial interventions. Additionally, the project aims to leverage emerging data to assess the consequences of scaling up and to contribute new insights into the effective elements of psychological interventions.
- Studies indicate that one in ten individuals experiences common mental health issues, such as depression. Additionally, one in five women encounters perinatal depression during both pregnancy and the post-delivery period.
- There exists a treatment gap for mental health issues in both rural and urban areas of India, predominantly attributed to the “unavailability” and “inaccessibility” of services.
- In order to bridge the gap in mental health services, Empower has implemented a task-sharing strategy. This involves training community health workers to provide counseling for both depression and perinatal depression.
Empower India
A Sangath Initiative
Using Technology to build India’s Mental Health Workforce
EMPOWER aims to build the capacity of health system for the prevention and care of mental health problems. The core objective of the project is to deploy digital training tools to train and support frontline health workers in delivering evidence-based psychosocial interventions, use emerging data to evaluate the impact of the scaling up and generate new knowledge on the effective components of psychological interventions.
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Fact about depression:
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Studies show a growing prevalence of depression among the youth in India, with rates above 50%.
And about 60% of individuals experiencing depression do not seek professional assistance.
The quantity of mental health professionals remains critically low.
A small step to address the gap in mental health services, we implemented digital training initiatives for ASHA workers across three districts in Madhya Pradesh. (Raisen, Narmadapuram & Vidisha.) This training will help the ASHAs to gain a new life.
WE CARE
Fact about depression:
Studies show a growing prevalence of depression among the youth in India, with rates above 50%.
And about 60% of individuals experiencing depression do not seek professional assistance.
The quantity of mental health professionals remains critically low.
A small step to address the gap in mental health services, we implemented digital training initiatives for ASHA workers across three districts in Madhya Pradesh. (Raisen, Narmadapuram & Vidisha.) This training will help the ASHAs to
The quantity of mental health professionals remains critically low.
A small step to address the gap in mental health services, we implemented digital training initiatives for ASHA workers across three districts in Madhya Pradesh. (Raisen, Narmadapuram & Vidisha.) This training will help the ASHAs to
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Impact in Mental Health
Digital system oriented approach to deliver Mental Health service globally.
Digital Learning
Digital Quality Assurance
Digital System Integration
Glimpse of current activities
Here are some glimpse of the on field ongoing activities under EMPOWER initiative. This involves various public engagement and public awareness activities on mental health amongst people.
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Come, let’s make mental health accessible for all!
For the past 26 years, Sangath has been working to improve access to mental healthcare in India.
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We are working to make mental healthcare accessible for all and fight the stigma around mental health.
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Feel free to get in touch for any queries, feedback about the program or instructions for joining us.
Notable projects
Empower Projects
Healthy Activity Program
Healthy Activity Programme (HAP) Scale Up engages frontline health workers in digital training and build capacities for delivering counselling based treatment. The programme is operational in three districts named, Narmadapuram, Raisen and Vidisha in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India which is supplemented by various on site public engagement activities.
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Promoting Effective Mental Healthcare Through Peer Supervision (PEERS)
Project PEERS is a digitally-enabled supervision innovation in the form of an app to improve the quality of Healthy Activity Programme (HAP) treatment for depression delivered by Non -Specialist Providers (NSPs) which is operational in two states of India, Goa and Madhya Pradesh.
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Neurodevelopment and AutisM in South ASia Treatment and Evidence (NAMASTE)
NAMASTE aims to design and implement a flexible evidenced pathway towards universal health coverage for children with Autism, through a programme of research, training and capacity building across India, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
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PracticePal
PracticePal conversational agent (chatbot) will provide education resources and remind clients to complete assigned activities via Telegram to help clients practice work assigned in HAP sessions by counsellors.
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ASPIRE
A Scalable Programme Incorporating Early Child Development Interventions (ASPIRE) aims to develop, implement & evaluate an integrated early childhood development& nutrition intervention covering the first 1000 days of life
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PRIDE
PRIDE (PremIum for aDolEscents) has developed and tested a suite of scalable, evidence-based interventions addressing the major share of the adolescent mental health burden (i.e., anxiety, depression and conduct difficulties) in India.
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THPP
Thinking Healthy Program Peer-delivered- THPP
Thinking Healthy Program Peer-delivered is an evidence-based treatment for mothers suffering with perinatal depression. Nearly 1 in 5 women suffers through perinatal depression in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Treatment gap for perinatal depression exceeds 90% in low resource settings. The THPP is designed for integration into maternal and child health care programmes in primary care. It is aimed at community health workers. It requires no previous knowledge or experience of mental health care.
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PracticePal
PracticePal conversational agent (chatbot) will provide education resources and remind clients to complete assigned activities via Telegram to help clients practice work assigned in HAP sessions by counsellors.
Read More
ASPIRE
A Scalable Programme Incorporating Early Child Development Interventions (ASPIRE) aims to develop, implement & evaluate an integrated early childhood development& nutrition intervention covering the first 1000 days of life
Read More
PRIDE
PRIDE (PremIum for aDolEscents) has developed and tested a suite of scalable, evidence-based interventions addressing the major share of the adolescent mental health burden (i.e., anxiety, depression and conduct difficulties) in India.
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I really enjoyed doing the online training on mental health designed by Sangath Bhopal. The audio-visual content used in the training programme helped in retaining the content and I was able to abosorb it. I think the module has really beneficial for all of us
Lata Sharma, ASHA, Vidisha
This training has been really significant for us. It has improved our understanding of mental health. Through this training we will now be able to understand the depressive symptoms and be able to help such individuals
Saira Bano, ASHA, Vidisha
Contentused in HAP is really easy to access and understand. I feel really good to be a part of this training
Anita Lodhi, ASHA, Raisen
Mental health is major issue which needs to focused and prioritized. Training has helped us in understanding that mental health issues are common and treatable. We don’t need to stigmatize it. Early identification and treatment is the key.
Tara, ASHA, Raisen
Voice Of The Asha’s
Hemlata Sharma, ASHA, Vidisha
I really enjoyed doing the online training on mental health designed by Sangath Bhopal. The audio-visual content used in the training programme helped in retaining the content and I was able to abosorb it. I think the module has really beneficial for all of us
Saira Bano, ASHA, Vidisha
This training has been really significant for us. It has improved our understanding of mental health. Through this training we will now be able to understand the depressive symptoms and be able to help such individuals
Anita Lodhi, ASHA, Raisen
Contentused in HAP is really easy to access and understand. I feel really good to be a part of this training
Tara, ASHA, Raisen
Mental health is major issue which needs to focused and prioritized. Training has helped us in understanding that mental health issues are common and treatable. We don’t need to stigmatize it. Early identification and treatment is the key.
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Batches of participants
1061
Participants received digital orientation
1001
Participants trained on HAP
70
Days of public engagement
2500
People sensitized
80
Sensitization sessions delivered
19
Batches of volunteer training
490
Volunteers trained
1755
Clients enrolled for HAP treatment
8297
Counselling sessions delivered
0
Batches of participants
0
Participants received digital orientation
0
Participants trained on HAP
0
Days of public engagement
0
People sensitized
0
Sensitization sessions delivered
0
Batches of volunteer training
0
Volunteers trained
0
Clients enrolled for HAP treatment
0
Counselling sessions delivered
0
Ashas trained digitally(HAP and THPP)
0
Cool Number
0
If counselling sessions given
Get Involved
Join us to make change happen !
Contribute your share towards mental well-being of the community.
Donate Now
Come, let’s make mental health accessible for all!
For the past 26 years, Sangath has been working to improve access to mental healthcare in India.
Get Involved
Be a part of an exciting journey.
We are working to make mental healthcare accessible for all and fight the stigma around mental health.
Contact us
Get in touch, we would love to hear from you.
Feel free to get in touch for any queries, feedback about the program or instructions for joining us.