Join the next Catalyst Mental Health Collaboration webinar: Shifting Societal Norms on Mental Health - The story of Time to Change. This session will spotlight extraordinary individuals driving key mental health initiatives. Through personal stories and impactful insights, Sue Baker and Rosemary Gathara will explore how they’ve overcome challenges and broken barriers, shaping the future of mental health worldwide.

Sue Baker has extensive experience in anti-stigma work and was the founding director of Time to Change, a campaign that has led to a shift in public attitudes and reductions in discrimination in England. She will be joined by Rosemary Gathara, who leads BasicNeeds Kenya, working with youth who are conducting mental health and anti-stigma campaigns.

Speakers

Sue Baker: Sue has worked to de-stigmatize mental health for almost 30 years in the UK, New Zealand, and globally. She set up the Time to Change campaign in England in 2007 and has worked on shifting stigma since joining Mind (the UK’s largest mental health NGO) in 1995. She then founded Time to Change Global in 2018, working with partners and people with lived experience in Africa and India to tackle mental health stigma across a range of cultures and contexts. She co-founded the Global Anti Stigma Alliance twelve years ago to share strategies and tools, and facilitate mutual learning to build capacity in many regions and contexts, and is a Co-Chair of the GMHAN Stigma and Discrimination Working Group. She now advises international bodies, Governments, NGOs, funders, and networks of people with lived experience on social change programs aimed at improving public attitudes, reducing discrimination, and empowering people with lived experience to lead change.

Rosemary Gathara: Rosemary Gathara is a health and development professional. She is experienced in developing and managing interventions for community health delivery, especially for mental health and epilepsy. She managed the National Epilepsy Association in Kenya, KAWE, for 9 years and now leads BasicNeeds/BasicRights Kenya, a leading Mental Health NGO. BasicNeeds Kenya programs work especially with adolescents and youth who are conducting resilience, mental health, and anti-stigma campaigns, working in learning institutions, workplaces, and in the communities of urban towns and rural areas. As well as training caregivers and health workers in community management for people with mental health conditions to live and work in their communities. She is a Nutritionist by training.

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.