Community Outreach – Campaigns for Mental Health Awareness

For creating awareness and knowledge, planning effective communication strategies is very important for getting desired impact. Campaigning for mental health is a strategy of a series of planned activities for mental wellbeing and optimum utilization of available psychiatric services. Community outreach is aimed at creating awareness and motivating people to address stigma related to mental health. It is an important and first part of the campaign strategy. We train and organize sessions for making the youth and field level functionaries to become Mental Health Ambassadors. Very often, because of misconceptions about mental health and mental fitness, people suffer in silence and their conditions go untreated. Timely diagnosis and treatment is important. Mental health awareness is very important to reduce the stigma around mental illness and mental health conditions.