Enhancing gender and Mental Health Literacy and Building Community Based Support for Mental Wellbeing

Program aims to create an ecosystem to make mental well-being accessible to marginalized communities, especially women, in the districts of Bandipora and Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). Building capacities of young rural women on gender and mental health who work in their respective communities to promote mental health awareness and address gender-based violence.

These women will work with their immediate peers and conduct various activities on gender and mental health issues in their respective communities. They create and facilitate in ‘safe spaces’ in their communities to help young women share and discuss their challenges and take collective initiatives to mitigate the gender gap and stigma associated with mental health issues.