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The Mata Jai Kaur led Khushee Mamta or ‘Happy Motherhood’ program recruits and trains local women as lay (non-specialist) counsellors. The counsellors provide counselling services for expectant and new mothers with perinatal depression and anxiety.
Khushee Mamta is a cognitive behavioural therapy intervention, adapted from the World Health Organization’s Thinking Healthy Programme. In 2018, Mata Jai Kaur and our group began adapting and implementing this community-based, lay counsellor delivered psychosocial intervention for women at risk of perinatal depression in 50 communities in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan.
Soon, this program will be scaled up across 558 villages in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan and large-scale screening for perinatal depression during the perinatal period will be conducted. The vision is to position the Khushee Mamta program as a women empowerment initiative that allows counsellors to gain the skills and resources to join diverse workforces.
In Phase 1 (Adaptation) we aimed to develop an evidence-based approach to building a lay-counsellor workforce to implement the perinatal mental health program.
In Phase 2 (Implementation) we conducted a process and outcome evaluation study of the program over a 15 to 24-month implementation period.
Currently, in Phase 3 of the program, we aim toto scale up the perinatal mental health program across 558 villages in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan.
Since November 2018, we have
For further details please write to Aneel Brar, PI, aneel@matajaikaur.org and Soumya Singh, Project Coordinator, soumya.singh@sangath.in
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