The Mental Health Program promotes well-being and provides services across all operational districts through awareness, healing services, and knowledge enhancement. It offers clinical services like individual and group therapies, stress management, and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training. It also engages communities and families through dialogues to reduce stigma and provide support, fostering healing, resilience, and capacity-building through three approaches.
This approach enhances community awareness and access to services by creating "Safe Spaces" in communities, schools, and families, led by trained community-based counsellors (CBC), school-based counsellors (SBC), and family-based counsellors (FBC). It uses awareness campaigns, screenings, referrals, and targeted trainings, while also co-facilitating the clinical supervision of CBCs under Rwandan Psychological Society (RPS) observation to strengthen mental health capacity
This approach empowers children and families to build resilience through family dialogues. It focuses on rehabilitating and reintegrating street-connected children into schools and safe family environments through individual and family therapy sessions, promoting emotional well-being and adhering to child protection principles.
The UNM Healing Center, an art-based clinic, provides in-person and online services six days a week through four specialized psychotherapists. It offers individual and group therapies, stress management, burnout prevention, and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training, while supporting professional growth through academic and professional internships in various institutions.
