Training and Capacity Building

Basic Needs India (BNI) is a resource organization in the field of Community Mental Health that looks at the mental health status globally and strategically conceptualizes programs at national and state levels in alliance with local Community Based Organizations (CBO) for sustainable program implementation.

Realizing the need to have people in community to identify and visit the persons with mental illness (PWMI) and to link them with available Government mental health services, BNI strengthens the capacity of all stakeholders appropriately. Capacity building refers to the process of making the most use of the skills of individual staff, volunteers and reinforcing organizational support of the partner organizations through sensitization, training in CMHD approach, (multidisciplinary) team building, field practice, networking and alliance building with Government and community health system; and on integrating the recovering PWMI back into the community by building awareness.

In this process, BNI strengthens what the partners and other stakeholders already have as core competence and add their adaptation capacity to different contexts along with significant technical skills and exchange of knowledge.

Apart from building the capacity of BNI Partners, BNI also offers Focused Training on various themes including:

  • Community Mental Health and Development (CMHD) Approach
  • Understanding Mental Illnesses
  • Understanding the Persons with Mental Illness
  • Working with Persons with Mental Illness
  • Reinforcing the Family Support and Caregivers
  • Psychoeducation
  • Psychosocial Care
  • Psychosocial interventions in Mental Health Practice
  • Sensitization of Stakeholders
  • Building Multidisciplinary Teams
  • Basic Helping skills for Volunteers and Field Workers
  • Skills in Counseling

Timbaktu Collective (Andhra Pradesh) and The Association for People with Disability (APD Karnataka) working in the field of Disability and Prajwala (Telangana) working with Women and Children have taken the support of BNI in strengthening the capacity of their staff team in Psychosocial Care and Intervention. Such training programs are tailor-made to meet the local needs and are skill based.
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