| Name of Initiative | Mon Foundation |
| State | West Bengal |
| Region | East |
| Project Details |
| Areas covered by the initiative | As a Resource Organisation on Mental health issues and life skills, it is evident that Mon Foundation is not limited within a specific location. However their advocacy efforts are spread over West Bengal and Orissa. |
| Works with | Mental Health and Life skills education program - School going children, railway platform children and CNCP |
| Major Issues aaddressed | Life Skills Education to enhance all round development and psychosocial competence of children. Psychiatric disorders among school going children. Training of care givers of children in need of care and protection and in conflict with law. |
| Objectives | To mainstream the broader concept of mental health beyond psychiatric disorders and establish its fundamentality in relation to implementation of other human rights.
To protect and promote child rights through mental health and life skills education.
To create an environment sensitive to mental health.
To generate resource persons in the area of mental health and life skills education.
Promoting mental health programmes with the children in the community and through institutions.
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| Description of initiative in brief | Mon aims to create a society in which individuals especially children are psychosocially competent and have the ability to solve problems, set goals, work towards achieving them by accessing resources and addressing limitations. Their mission is to enhance psychosocial competence in an individual and reduce the suffering caused by mental health problems. The organizational journey so far can be traced back in six phases. The initial phase (1992-96) focussed on research to understand the prevalence of mental health and sensitization programmes. During second phase (1996-99) CRY started its support and prevalence study among school children was initiated apart from sensitization programs. In third phase active intervention in terms of life skill education was started. Forth phase (2004) led to outreach programmes in form of creating rural trainers team. 2005 saw expansion of programme in terms of involving children other than school children and expansion of out reach programme. CRY partners this NGO through direct action which includes financial and non-financial support such as management of funds, project-planning, material requirements, perspective-building programmes on child rights, baseline data establishment, organisational development, advocacy campaigns, linking them to larger alliances and networks, training for skill building, information support, and developing promotional materials among others |
| Grant amount Rs. | 864300 |
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