The following message comes on behalf of Mental Health Coalition – Sierra Leone and their project, Reaching Out to Those Affected by Mental Illness: Dear Sir/Madam, Today marks the start of giving and its #GivingTuesday. In line with that, the Mental Health Coalition – Sierra Leone and in collaboration with the Social Work Sierra Leone…

The following message comes on behalf of Mental Health Coalition – Sierra Leone and their project, Reaching Out to Those Affected by Mental Illness: Dear Sir/Madam, Today marks the start of giving and it’s #GivingTuesday. In line with that, the Mental Health Coalition – Sierra Leone and in collaboration with the Social Work Sierra Leone…

Donation towards the #feeding of the #mentallyill patients in the street of #Freetown by the social workers will kick start on the 27th November, 2018 on the Global Giving platform. Please support this worthy cause to build trust and relationship between the service providers and service users. Thanks.

Continuous Clinical Professional Development (CCPD) is a an initiative introduced by the Enabling Access to Mental Health Program in Sierra Leone – A EU funded project. CCPD was designed to provide ongoing capacity enhancement of service providers (mainly the District Mental Health Nurses) in a bid to increase evidence based service delivery at their respective…

DEFINITION OF COMMUNICATION: Is a two-way process of reaching mutual understanding, in which participants do not only exchange (encode-decode) information, news, ideas and feelings but also create and share meanings In general, communication is a means of connecting people or places As an information age, messages are sent, received and processed numbers of messages every…

DEFINITION: Is the effective expression of oneself and at the same time standing up for your view point whilst you also respect the rights and beliefs of others It is a way of behaving forcefully without ignoring or trampling  on the rights of other people It is a means that you can confidently but peacefully…

What is Life Skills? The concept is not easy to define. Life Skills are terms that do not have one definition. However, some writers have defined Life Skills as: “The skills needed by an individual to operate effectively in society in an active and constructive way” “Life Skills are personal and social skills required for…

What are sleep problems? These are little or no regular sleeping issues due to factors (identified or not) that is hindering you from having your usual normal sleep.  Kinds of sleeping problems: There are different ways in which our regular sleeping problems can be affected . Some of them includes although they are not limited…

There are common problem behaviours that goes side by side with crisis situations as in the case of the recent flooding and mudslide disaster or working in a crisis affected community? These are: Anger (and) Drinking Understanding what anger is? Anger is: a normal human emotion. feeling annoyed, frustrated, irritated, or even very angry from…

What is Psycho-Social Support? The term psychosocial means the dynamic relationship between the psychological and social effects, of events on individuals. Psychosocial Counselling is important because helping the client to identify his/her problem and make choices will build his or her self-esteem, empower him or her and ultimately develop resilience. Psychosocial counseling is important because…