IT’S OK TO TALK

PROJECT OVERVIEW

It’s Ok To Talk, an adolescent and youth-focused initiative by Sangath, aims to increase awareness about mental health and wellbeing so that more young people are able to engage in a dialogue on mental health, and seek and get help. The project works through three key activities:

  • Community-based events.
  • Training and leadership building.
  • Social media campaigns highlighting young people’s lived experiences of mental health needs.

Partnerships are at the heart of It’s Ok To Talk’s work, and these include collaboration with individuals and organisations that bring complementary expertise on community engagement, arts, social and digital media.

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LOCATION

India

PROJECT DURATION

PROJECT GOAL

  • Identify strategies to address the stigma associated with mental health amongst adolescents and young people.
  • Increase awareness about intersecting mental health issues amongst adolescents and young people.
  • Build young peoples’ capacities to address mental health problems.

KEY IMPACT

  • Motivating young people to be agents of change
  • Promote youth capacities to address mental health problems
  • Promote an inter-sectional understanding of mental health
  • Promote sustainability
  • Leverage science, technology, media and the  arts

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For further details please write to us at contactus@sangath.in 

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RELEVANT LINKS

RESOURCES

Pattie P Gonsalves , Eleanor Sara Hodgson, Bhargav Bhat, Rhea Sharma, Abhijeet Jambhale, Daniel Michelson, Vikram Patel

BMJ Mental Health,

2023

Sonal Mathur; Helen A Weiss; Melissa Neuman; Andy P Field; Baptiste Leurent; Tejaswi Shetty; James E. J; Pooja Nair; Rhea Mathews; Kanika Malik; Daniel Michelson; Vikram Patel

JMIR RESEARCH PROTOCOL, JMIR Research Protocols,

2023

Pattie P. Gonsalves, Rithika Nair, Madhavi Roy, Sweta Pal, Daniel Michelson

Springer Adm Policy Ment Health 50,

2023

Malik, K., Shetty, T., Mathur, S., James, E.J., Mathews, R., Manogya, S., Chauhan, P., Nair, P., Patel, V. & Michelson, D.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,

2023

Gonsalves Pattie, Sharma Rhea, Jambhale Abhijeet, Chodankar Bindiya, Verma, M., Hodgson, E. S., Weiss, H. A., Laurent, B., Cavanagh, K., Fairburn, C., Cuijpers, P., Michelson, D. & Patel Vikram.

BJPsych Open,

2022

Resham Gellatly, Kendra Knudsen, Maya M. Boustani, Daniel Michelson, Kanika Malik, Sonal Mathur, Pooja Nair, Vikram Patel, Bruce F. Chorpita

Frontiers, Frontiers in Psychiatry,

2022

PRESS MENTIONS

Ritu Shrivastava, Lochan Sharma, Mehak Jolly, Romi Ahuja, Radhika Sharma, John A Naslund, Jyotsna Agrawal, Rahul Shidhaye, Seema Mehrotra, Steve D Hollon, Vikram Patel, Deepak Tugnawat, Ananth Kumar, Anant Bhan, Ameya P Bondre

Soc Sci Med,

2023

Jan M. Heijdra Suasnabar, Abhijit Nadkarni, Benjamin Palafox

Wiley Online Library,

2023

Ritu Shrivastava, Abhishek Singh, Azaz Khan, Shivangi Choubey, Juliana Restivo Haney, Eirini Karyotaki, Deepak Tugnawat, Anant Bhan, John A. Naslund

SSM-Mental Health,

2023

Abhijit Nadkarni, Yashi Gandhi, Urvita Bhatia and Richard Velleman

Cambridge University Press, Global Mental Health,

2022

Ameya P. Bondre, Ritu Shrivastava, Harikeerthan Raghuram, Deepak Tugnawat, Azaz Khan, Snehil Gupta, Mohit Kumar, Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta, Matcheri Keshavan, Tanvi Lakhtakia, Prabhat Kumar Chand, Jagadisha Thirthalli, Vikram Patel, John Torous, Abhijit R. Rozatkar, John A. Naslund, Anant Bhan

SSM - Mental Health,

2022

Kendra S. Knudsen MA, Kimberly D. Becker PhD, Karen Guan PhD, Resham Gellatly PhD, Vikram H. Patel MD, Kanika Malik PhD, Maya M. Boustani PhD, Sonal Mathur PhD, Bruce F. Chorpita PhD

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice,

2022

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