Our Projects
The TEAM Project
TEAM aims to effectively integrate mental health services with minimal expenditure of resources, into pre-existing, community-based, government funded, formal and informal health services in Kenya. The project is currently taking place in Makueni County an area without a single psychiatrist. TEAM’s main course is to strengthen effective, self-driven leadership and governance, and to provide comprehensive community mental health awareness to impact on attitude and behavioral change in the community.
The CREATE Project
September 2014 - July, 2016
The LIPTK Project
The Livelihood Intervention to Women Experiencing Psycho-Trauma and Receiving Trauma Care at Maternal and Child Health Clinic in Kibera Slums-Kenya (LIPTIK) was a project that implemented and integrated income generating interventions to the psycho trauma care administered to women recovering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Kibera.
The KIDS Project
KIDS is a program in Kenya whose focus is on promoting mental health, preventing illness and treating existing mental illness among children. Child and adolescent mental illness is one of the seven Grand challenges on mental health. The project provided an approach which aimed at promoting children’s mental well-being and support of positive cognitive development to break the vicious cycle of mental illness from continuing through adulthood which might have a detrimental effect on the individual’s quality of life.
The e-DATA K Project
e-DATA K was a project that provided online training to both clinical and non-clinical health workers to acquire competencies adapted from WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) and the WHO ASSIST.
Sustainable and Adapted Treatment Strategies among Displaced Somalis
This was a pilot program that aimed at developing and evaluating new concepts of integrated community-based mental health services to Somali refugees in the urban refugee settlement in Kenya
The mhGAP-IG mHealth Project
mHealth was a project that aimed at evaluating the applicability of a model that utilized mobile technology to train, supervise, support and monitor application of mhGAP-IG depression module on non-mental health workers.
The DIALOGUE Project
DIALOGUE was a project that sought to empower, supervise, support and include informal traditional and faith healers to deliver evidence based mhGAP-IG adapted psychosocial interventions to reduce mental health treatment gap in Kenya.
Mobile Substance Use Intervention for HIV Prevention
September 2013 – September 2015
Identification of Psychosis-Risk Traits in Africa
January 2013 –December 2014
