Goals and Objectives
The goal of MindFreedom Kenya is to improve institutional capacity and strengthen community systems in response to a broken mental health system in Kenya.
The objectives of the project include:
- Advocacy to increase awareness of mental health so that the community is informed about the real challenges in the mental health system and available treatment or alternative treatments.
- Provision of more effective and humane treatment and care through better health services in primary healthcare and general health facilities.
- Create a supportive environment through sensitization and mobilization of community members including traditional healers, village or community workers, police, teachers, family members, DPOs, CBOs and stakeholders working on mental health system reform.
- Influencing policies and legislation enacted to support users and survivors within or outside of the Kenya mental health system.
- Provide support and help for the psychosocially disabled from abuse in the mental health system in Kenya.
- Improve the mental health and lives of users and survivors by developing and formulating, in conjunction with stakeholders, policies for provision of community based rehabilitation strategies that would ease the re-integration of the psychosocially disabled into society.
- Advocate for establishment of mental health counselors at the community level, peer groups, family associations and groups championing for community based rehabilitative schemes.
- Advocacy for integration of mental health and developmental services within both government and stakeholders to reform the mental health system.
- Build capacity of government, civil society and user groups to meet the basic needs and rights of users and survivors.
- Rehabilitation for users and survivors to enable them to access credit to engage in small income generating ventures.
