Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya: Evidence based approaches empowering youth with mental health problems to tackle stigma
Comic Relief awarded a grant of GBP 604,932 to Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya for work in Kenya, dated 17 March 2020.
Overview
Young people in Nairobi face challenges to their mental health. Urban life, changes in the traditional family structure, and poverty can lead to alcohol and drug misuse or other problems. The media portrays people with mental health disorders as violent, mad, or spiritually possessed. Stigma associated with mental health problems is both a cause and an effect of limited access to treatment. This project will replicate Time To Change, a programme that has helped reduce mental health-related stigma in England. It will support young people with experience of mental health problems to talk to members of the public, alongside a campaign to challenge stigma and discrimination in Nairobi.
Programme: Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing in Kenya
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