Sangath founded in Goa, starts providing services for children with developmental disabilities; working on depression in adults, alcoholism in adult males, school going adolescents’ health needs, dementia and depression.

· Work started on early intervention, domestic violence, patterns of drinking in men.

· Sangath started a resource centre on adolescent and child health; started working with school children with learning difficulties, & launched Zippy’s friend– an emotional wellbeing programme for preschoolers in English and Konkani.

· Developed interventions and conducted research into postnatal depression, & the link between gynecological and mental health problems.

· Sangath extended its reach to Chennai where it developed a community response program for bereavement due to the tsunami.

· Worked on the mental health needs of women and child victims of human rights violations.

· Launched intervention programs for youth well-being, & the detection-and-treatment of common mental disorders in adults.

· Sangath worked with anganwadis to improve child developmental outcomes.

· Awarded the MacArthur Foundation’s International Prize for Creative and Effective Institutions.

· Developed training manuals for different stakeholders such as teachers and caregivers of children with special needs.

· Expanded work into working with people with schizophrenia.

· Adapted a gold standard diagnostic tool for autism.

· Expanded to Chandigarh, Pune, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Odhisha, Bihar and Maharashtra through the project Prayatana I & II that provided youth friendly counsellor services.

· Sangath was awarded for its outstanding contributions to the success of Badhte Kadam- A National Trust Awareness competition for disabilities.

· We expanded work into dementia, explored how NSHWs could provide mental health care, & continued work on evaluating psychosocial interventions for depression and harmful drinking. 

· The 1st Leadership in Mental Health Course was launched.

· Work expanded into chronic disease risk factors & severe mental disorders.

· Sangath collaborated with Ethiopia, South Africa, Uganda, and Nepal through PRIME which aimed at improving access to care for priority mental disorders, as well as with Pakistan through the PASS project which is an evidence-based social communication intervention for young children with Autism. 

· Sangath was awarded the Blessed Mother Teresa award from the Department of Art & Culture, Government of Goa, 2011.

· Sangath was invited as a member of the Expert Group, Government of India to develop operational guidelines on ‘Developmental Screening and Early Intervention for Children with Disability and Developmental Disorders’, 2012.

· Gauri Divan, Director of Sangath’s Child Development Group, was selected as a member of the Technical Resource Group on Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Health, 2013; member of the Expert Group on Autism Spectrum Disorders, National Trust, Government of India; member of the Consultative Group World Health Organisation (WHO) on Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and other developmental disabilities; member of the Technical Working Group Meeting on Caregiver Skills Training for Developmental Disorders, WHO, 2014.

· Sangath reached Rewari, Haryana with SPRING, a project with kilkari workers that used home based interventions to support early child nutrition and play, & expanded work into late life depression prevention and healthy ageing.

· Sangath started its shift into digital-and-home based interventions for children with special needs.

· Dr. Vikram Patel was listed on TIME 100: The Most Influential People of 2015.

· Sangath is listed as one of the top five public health research institutions in India (2015) as per the ‘Public Health and Well Being’ report of the Research Councils UK, India, and the UK Science and Innovation Network.

· The Addictions Research Group came into existence.

· WHO adjudged Sangath as the Public Health Champion of India.

· Dr. Vikram Patel conferred with the prestigious Order of the British Empire award by the UK government in 2016.

· Sangath opened a major site office in New Delhi as part of the PRIDE project, which targeted common mental disorders in school going adolescents.

· It’s Ok To Talk launched-India’s first youth focused mental health campaign to increase awareness about mental health and reduce stigma, so that young people are able to engage in a dialogue on mental health, and seek & get help. It’s Ok To Talk was recognised as one of the 10 most prominent international mental health campaigns by Facebook in 2019.

· Sangath evaluated a novel method of using a portable computer tablet to detect autism using interactive tasks and eye-tracking with the START project; and used portable electroencephalography & tablet-based games to measure cognitive development in preschool children with the REACH project. 

· Sangath continued work on mobile text messaging interventions for hazardous drinkers in Goa, and examined the feasibility and acceptability of the integration of tele-psychiatry into primary care services in Goa.

· Sangath worked on suicide attempts in young people with the ‘Young Lives Matter’ project, and evaluated the feasibility of frontline health system workers delivering a home based intervention for young children with autism.

· Sangath’s advocacy efforts via the ESSENCE project resulted in the PHQ-2 being incorporated in the revised CBAC-Community Based Assessment Checklist form that is now being implemented nationally.

· Sangath made high quality mental healthcare accessible for free to the Canacona taluka in Goa.

· Sangath was awarded the NGO leadership award in 2018.

· Expanded our reach to Sri Lanka and Afghanistan through the NIHR global health research group that works on the mental health of survivors of violence in resource-constrained settings.

· In 2019, Dr. Vikram Patel received the John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award, and Sangath reached Rajasthan through ‘Men Against Violence’-an intervention against gender based violence. 

· Sangath continued its work on digital health interventions on tobacco cessation, developing video based curriculums for anganwadi teachers in Hyderabad.

· Sangath formalized its Child Development Group and continued its work with children and adolescents, studying illicit drug use amongst adolescents.

· The STREAM project started its work on developing scalable tools to assess the development of preschool children.

· Mann Mela– a web-based museum of mental health experiences of young people in India was launched.

· Sangath was invited to be a member of the Lancet Commission on Autism.

· In 2020, EMPOWER started and aimed to expand India’s mental health workforce by working with frontline workers via digital platforms. 

· Dr. Gauri Divan was invited as a member of the International Society for Autism Research, Global Senior Leaders Group.

· COINCIDE started its work on the effect of risk factors on neurodevelopment and mental health across the 0-9 years life-course.

· SHARP started to develop a smartphone application that will help to predict and prevent relapse among individuals diagnosed with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.