Community Transformation Project
Mental & Physical Health and Rights & Entitlements
Objective
ACT empowers community-based organisations to lead their own development by promoting safe health practices and helping communities understand and advocate for their rights and entitlements. Through partnerships with government agencies, we also help people access essential healthcare services, legal documents, and welfare benefits.
Physical Health Program
Our Physical Health Program is an effective tool to train communities in understanding the impact of lack of knowledge of safe health practices. Here we tackle aspects of both communicable and non – communicable diseases including reproductive health.
Mental Health Program
In our Mental Health Program we train mental health workers to share awareness on common and severe mental health disorders to the community so that there is identification and treatment by a cadre of lay or para mental health workers who provide a bridge between a professional psychologist and the community. As a result of this awareness, stigma and discrimination is significantly reduced. Our aim is to further care for and empower individuals, families and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education and career goals. Our beneficiaries vary from boys struggling with an adolescent crush to women facing domestic abuse and violence.
Our trauma counselling vertical works in partnership with rescue and rehabilitation organization to train care givers, probation officers and other officials in the judicial system that provide after services to the survivors of trauma and abuse.
Justice & Rights
ACT partners with government and non government organizations to help communities understand their rights and responsibilities, access government entitlements, and seek support from relevant authorities.
We also raise awareness about child sexual abuse and support survivors in accessing legal assistance and seeking justice.
