News from StrongMinds
On Friday, November 25, the StrongMinds Uganda team joined the Ministry of Health to celebrate Mental Health Awareness Day in Kampala. The StrongMinds Uganda stall with team spirit! The pioneers of StrongMinds Uganada’s Peer Therapy were invited to attend. Peer Therapy Group Facilitators with the Department…
As we move into the start of the last sessions of StrongMinds Therapy Groups for 2016 in Uganda, we wanted to share a few updates with you — and one of our many of success stories. Click here to view the newsletter online.
StrongMinds Uganda has completed 2 phases of group talk therapy in 2015. Phase one: 584 Phase two: 714 Total talk therapy participants: 1,298 This is a 152% increase from 2014.
To date, we have successfully treated 514 women in our therapy groups! Our team of trained and certified mental health facilitators use group interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT-G) to treat these poor women who live on $1-2 a day. The results from our first phase are very encouraging. Impact Synopsis An Impact Evaluation indicates that the StrongMinds’…