Join the next Catalyst Mental Health Collaboration webinar: Mental Health Collaboration: Community Health Worker Selection. This practical knowledge-sharing webinar will focus on sharing knowledge and best practices for selecting Community Health Workers in mental health interventions.
During the session, they will discuss criteria, common challenges, and strategies for managing the selection process, especially when working with government/partner organizations. The session will end with a facilitated group conversation and the opportunity to develop a collective resource for community health worker selection and share experiences.
Anita Kaslin: Anita is an Ecuadorian clinical psychologist with over a decade of expertise in providing culturally competent mental health care to marginalized populations. Before co-founding Vida Plena, she previously provided clinical therapy to rural mountain communities affected by mining and launched a program fostering social connections among elderly adults. In Vida Plena, Anita leads the selection of community facilitators, conducts trainings in group interpersonal therapy, and builds outreach partnerships with local organizations. In her free time, she loves hanging out with her rescue dog and two cats.
Teddy Zvirawa: Teddy Zvirawa is a Country Program Expert at Zvandiri with over ten years of experience developing and expanding the peer-led HIV initiative throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Teddy is a social worker with experience supporting mental health, social protection, and HIV programs. Teddy has played a pivotal role in providing technical assistance to governments across Zimbabwe, Côte d’Ivoire, and Zambia to successfully implement the Zvandiri model - an innovative approach that helps children, adolescents, and young people living with HIV (CAYALHIV) not just survive but thrive. Teddy’s expertise involves supporting governments and implementation partners to adapt, replicate, and scale up peer provider models. His work has been instrumental in improving mental health outcomes for CAYALHIV while enhancing their overall quality of life. Teddy continues to advance more effective, sustainable approaches to HIV care and support across the region. He is currently providing technical assistance to the government and implementing partners in Zambia.
About Catalyst 2030: Mental Health Collaboration
The Catalyst 2030: Mental Health Collaboration creates opportunities for global collaboration between funder networks and mental health social entrepreneurs with tangible tools and resources to create a systemic impact.
The collaboration seeks to educate funders, social innovators, corporates, and policymakers on the intersectionality of mental health with other social justice systems. These include gender, climate change, education, healthcare, etc., to enhance cross-sector collaborations to integrate mental health work into other social justice issues.
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