The Somalia Mental Health Foundation will address following :
Community Mental Health education and research
- Seminars and Workshops for general practitioners, school teachers, health workers, and other community leaders and opinion makers for sensitization on mental health issues.
- Research on various psychosocial and health related issues including survey on prevalence of psychiatric morbidity and clinical depression in low-income areas of Somalia , survey of attitudes and beliefs among community members about mental illness, and demographic and diagnostic data on patients who are seen at the clinic.
- Training workshops in self-empowerment and psychosocial wellness for women and girls in low income areas.
- Mental Health Camps where psychiatric consultation and medicines are provided free-of-cost.
- Street theater in low-income areas to raise awareness about violence against women and girls and its impact on their mental health.
Raising Awareness
- Organizing Mental Health Day every year on October 10th on the call of World Federation for Mental Health and WHO.
- Publication of a special Souvenir every year on the theme of Mental Health Day.
- Leaflets on common mental health diseases in Somalia distributed free.
