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Community-based Mental Health Care Delivery: The Partners In Health Experience
Little evidence exists on how to turn “task-shared” care packages for mental health care into sustained service delivery systems in resource-limited and complex health care settings, particularly at scale. The Partners In Health (PIH) Mental Health Program delivers collaborative, comprehensive mental health care in real-world settings, addresses the complexity and co-morbidity of mental disorders, and seeks to integrate clinical and dimensional approaches.
Join the first in a series of member-led webinars organized by the Mental Health Collaboration of Catalyst 2030. In this webinar, we will hear from Giuseppe (Bepi) Raviola, M.D., M.P.H. (Co-Director of Mental Health for PIH) and Dr. Stephanie Smith (Co-Director of Mental Health at PIH).
The Partners In Health approach to mental health and psychosocial response (MHPSS) is rooted in the 5 S's of PIH: staff, stuff, space, systems, and social support, and they align mental health service delivery, training, and research and optimize academic opportunities with partner institutions.
This talk will describe PIH’s experience with implementing a community-based mental health care delivery model across PIH’s 11 global care delivery sites, together with the Ministries of Health. They will discuss implementation strategies critical to the model's success, and reflect on challenges and lessons learned from over a decade of integrating mental health care into PIH’s health system strengthening work.
About Catalyst 2030’s Mental Health Collaboration
Catalyst 2030’s 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.