iCALL Psychosocial Helpline
Objectives
iCALL's Objectives:
- To provide information, emotional support and counselling interventions and connect individuals to knowledge and service resources with a special focus on marginalized communities
- To build capacities of helping professionals & stakeholders involved in mental health service provision
- To provide expertise, consultancy and services for development of helplines for other stakeholders and for other mental health services
- To carry out relevant research activities to: document iCALL’s interventions, practices and experience demonstrating its effectiveness, impact and facilitating its replication as a model, along with undertaking new research initiatives in the area of psycho-social distress and counseling
- To enhance awareness and increase sensitization about mental health by means of creating content and undertaking outreach activities
- To actively initiate partnerships and collaborations to promote wellbeing of communities and to develop effective psychosocial responses