Building a Hybrid Model for Improving Mental Health and Preventing Suicide in Bangladesh

Building a Hybrid Model for Improving Mental Health and Preventing Suicide in Bangladesh: In this session from the CCIH 2020 conference, three faith-based mental health initiatives in rural Bangladesh were explored: a purpose-built ‘friendship’ model assists 11,000 teenagers targeting beliefs, expectations and practices via 1,000 lay persons; a second offers trauma healing counseling (adapted for use in a mixed religious context) in an integrated model through ‘People’s Institutions’ (PIs in over 400 community groups); the third facility-based model trained 50 providers in reproductive-health oriented counseling corners in government health facilities serving 75,000 women.