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Mental health regeneration CBR: Mental health regeneration Since 2002, Navajeevana has provided community mental health services in partnership with Basic Needs. In 2008 Basic Needs moved away from the project area and Navajeevana officially became the implementing body on mental health in collaboration with the Health Ministry. The programme has several components:- * Community Mental Health * Sustainable Livelihood * Capacity Building * Improved Participation * Project Management capabilities At Home Not Hospital Before we began this programme in the south, people with mental illnesses were referred to hospitals for treatment, since only medical institutions had the drugs and knowledge to treat patients with such conditions. Through the programme however a successful model of community and home based rehabilitation of mentally ill clients has emerged. Doctors were persuaded to visit patients’ homes to ascertain the situation on the gound and and to investigate the causes of chronic mental illness. Monthly clinics are held at DS Division level to enable patients to access drugs and follow up supervision. Rural hospitals and village clinics that did not earlier stock drugs needed for mental illness, have been persuaded to do so for the ease of patients who are too sick or poor to travel to town for medicine. In short, our programme has brought huge improvements to the provision of holistic mental health services in the region. Making a Living A programme to improve livelihood opportunities for those with mental illness was considered important under the programme - both to improve the patients’ sense of self worth and also to treat the root causes of such illness. Activities such as bee keeping, farming, shop keeping, cultivation etc have been introduced under the programme with good results. 23 such disabled persons have also been issued credit to begin a form of self employment through a revolving fund. This has proven extremely successful with 21 out of the 23 entering self employment.
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