Categorised by "advocacy"

A Call for Disability-Inclusive Climate Action in India and Globally

We, People with Disabilities and Organisations of Persons with Disabilities in India, call upon a...Read More

Climate Change at the cost of my life

Does Anyone Care? This piece is in the Dari language of Afghanistan.Read More

Demystifying Suicide Prevention

A special series in association with Sanity by Tanmoy dedicated to suicide prevention, which will...Read More

Justice and Recovery: A Forced Binary

The schism between justice and mental healthcare for survivors of trafficking violence in IndiaRead More

Addressing Inequalities: Structural Competency and Collective Action in Mental Health

Dismantling systems of powerRead More

All the Better to Suffer the Status Quo with, My Dear

Socio-emotional learning (SEL): mental healthcare, or behaviour modification programmes?Read More

MHI QUARTERLY UPDATE | APRIL- JUNE, 2021

We're a grant-making and advocacy agency for innovative mental health initiatives, with a particu...Read More

Exercising accountability as a funder

As a funding agency, MHI had to respond urgently and with responsibility to the unprecedented COV...Read More

Creating innovative programs to strengthen the MH ecosystem

Through the year, we launched initiatives targeting specific groups such as youth, entrepreneurs,...Read More

Changing conversations on mental health

While COVID-19 is considered to be a humanitarian crisis and multiplied the number of conversatio...Read More

Guiding and growing MHI’s path to the future

In February 2020, we got together with all our team members and advisory board members to discuss...Read More

MHI QUARTERLY UPDATE | OCT- DEC, 2020

We're a funding agency for innovative mental health initiatives, with a particular focus on makin...Read More

Clinical Legacies and Counter-Narratives

The fields of knowledge associated with mental health have come under scrutiny for human rights ...Read More

Seeding Wellbeing in Drought- Prone Regions

A psychosocial approach to working with distraught farming communitiesRead More

An Invisible Intersection: Mental Healthcare for the Deaf Community

A realization crucial to building a Deafinclusive society is that living in a nonsigning world ca...Read More

Creating Safe Spaces within Legal Settings

A model for individual, couple and familial counseling for matrimonial litigationRead More

MHI QUARTERLY UPDATE  |  JULY - SEPT, 2020

We're a funding agency for innovative mental health initiatives, with a particular focus on makin...Read More

Responding to COVID as a Mental Health Funding Organization

Coronavirus is not just a public health issue but also an issue of livelihoods, food, security, ...Read More

MHI QUARTERLY UPDATE  |  APRIL - JUNE, 2020

We're a funding agency for innovative mental health initiatives, with a particular focus on makin...Read More

We fund initiatives that are user-centered, and employ a human rights-based approach

At the onset we knew that MHI would employ an intersectional and intersectoral approach to funding.Read More

How our approach has shaped the initiatives that we’ve invested in this year (2019-2020)

At MHI we believe in a psychosocial approach to mental health – that there are critical social de...Read More

Challenging existing pathological representations of LGBTQIA+ lives & countering historical violence & discrimination, in mental health practice

The edifice of mental health and psychiatry in India has been responsible for pathologizing non-n...Read More

Collaborating with others to bridge the mental health care gap

If we want to influence social change, we must work in tandem with others. At MHI, we support and...Read More

Working with the Government to bolster mental health care services

MHI signs an MoU for a Technical Support Unit that will support the Government of Bihar in streng...Read More

MHI QUARTERLY UPDATE | OCT - DEC, 2019

We're a funding agency for innovative mental health initiatives, with a particular focus on makin...Read More

Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice, Bombay

6 Day Course on Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice (QACP)Read More

Young Indians Speak About Mental Health

Insights gained from stories shared online by youth.Read More

Mental Health & Criminal Law

A critique of the excessively narrow approach of the law that takes into account only those menta...Read More

The Atmiyata Story

Centering community as a resourceRead More

#BridgeThe CareGap

An advocacy-based campaign to ensure the implementation of India’s Mental Health Care Act. Bridge...Read More

MHI QUARTERLY UPDATE | JULY - SEPT, 2019

We're a funding agency for innovative mental health initiatives, with a particular focus on makin...Read More

Where Social Justice Meets Mental Health

A discussion on social justice, collective mental health and the impact of social hierarchies of ...Read More

Pathways to Mental Health

Challenging the existing discourse around the ‘treatment gap’ that invisibilises the psycho-socia...Read More

ReFrame: Editor's Note

An Editor's Note on ReFrame, a journal by the Mariwala Health Initiative that challenges existing...Read More

Queering Mental Health Practice

QACP interrogates and counters dominant approaches to sexuality in the mental health sector. It i...Read More

The ideal of ‘Recovery’

A critique of the conventional approach to  ‘care’ views persons with mental health that diagnose...Read More

MHI's Quarterly Newsletter

Read about our latest partners, innovative projects we've been funding and upcoming events throug...Read More

ReFrame 2019: Call for Submissions

ReFrame, a journal by the Mariwala Health Initiative is a platform to challenge existing norms an...Read More

Bridge the Care Gap Campaign

Despite the high incidence of mental health problems, the focus of the State has been centered on...Read More

Articulating Sexuality from the Margins

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