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A 2-year project aimed at improving the disability inclusion programme in Ghana has ended.

Basic Needs Ghana, a non-governemental organisation, has held stakeholders' engagement on the proposed strategy for trauma informed approach with a call on partners to create awareness and the needed support for effective implementation. Trauma informed approach seeks to help organisations build processes and systems that focus on patient and employee…

Ghana’s government has taken inadequate steps to end the chaining and inhumane treatment of people with real or perceived mental health conditions – psychosocial disabilities – in faith-based and traditional healing centers despite a 2017 ban on such treatment, Human Rights Watch said today.

Ghana: Chaining people with mental health conditions persists - The Maravi Post

Dr Joel Agorinya, a psychiatrist at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, has advised the public to normalise seeking help for mental health issues. He said there were a lot of people walking on the streets who had mental health issues but were shy to seek help even though there is help.…

Clubhouse International will share how Clubhouse employment programs help prevent and end isolation, and help with social inclusion.

Graphic Online Date: Jul - 02 - 2021 , 12:34 BY: Samuel Duodu Category: General News Hajia Lamnatu Adam (2nd left) , Executive Director , Songtaba unveiling a plaque to launched the project. With her in the picture are Alhaji Shaibu Alhassan Shani, the Northern Regional Minister (left). On the right is Mr Lawrence Akubori ( in suit),Ms Lyle Kamara (middle) all of the Ghana Somubi Dwumadie and Dr. Al-Hussien Zakaria (third right), a member of the Northern Regional Peace Council. 30.5k Shares 7...

Basicneeds-Ghana trains traditional and faith-based healers in mental health case management By Adam Abdul-Fatawu Wunizoya || Tamale LISTEN 6 HOURS AGO BASIC NEEDS GHANA, a non-governmental organization working towards addressing mental health issues in Ghana in collaboration with MEHSOG have trained over thirty (30) traditional and Faith-Based mental health healers to help in the fighting against mental health issues in the country. The healers, both male and female were drawn from the Tam...

  The media and civil society have been urged to become a force for change in combating stigma and discrimination against persons with disabilities (PWDs) and their inclusion in the scheme of affairs. That would go a long way to transform the lives of PWDs, Madam Susan Mensah of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), formerly United Kingdom Department for International Development (UKAid), said in Accra. Stigma refers to the act of labelling someone as inferior because of an ...

Persons with mental illness exposed to harmful treatments at healing centres - Study A field study on mental health treatment at traditional and faith-based healing centres in Ghana shows that about 30 per cent of persons with mental illness who patronise these services are exposed to potentially harmful treatments. It revealed that traditional healers denied their patients food and water, flogged them, deprived them of sleep, and restrained them with chains and ropes as a part of the healing p...