mental health

Despite overwhelming evidence that media reports can either strengthen or undermine suicide prevention efforts, the quality of suicide reporting in India continues to remain poor. What needs to change?

Through the pandemic, nonprofits did what they could to support their teams. Now, it is time for the funding community to redesign their approach to grantmaking.

Neerja Birla speaks about the mental health and integrated education landscape in India, the stigma surrounding it, and what key stakeholders need to do.

Research shows that access to alternative credit mechanisms during the pandemic enabled informal women workers to gain financial security, benefitting their mental well-being in the process.

The anti-trafficking ecosystem fails to account for the mental health and well-being of survivors.

Social-emotional learning (SEL) programmes should adopt an intersectional lens that takes into account young people’s diverse experiences of caste, class, and gender.

As socio-emotional learning (SEL) gains popularity in India, mental health practitioners and educators must work to caution against one-size-fits-all programmes that are marketed as mental health support.

While the issues of discrimination in health access are systemic and require interventions by governments to solve them, there is much that civil society can do.

World Suicide Prevention Day | We need to recognise that suicide is a societal failure. To change this, we need policy makers, people, and the media to collaborate.

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, civil society, governments, and health systems need to focus on building a collective response to death and grief, especially for children.