Sustainable Mental Health Initiative
Mental health is crucial yet often overlooked, especially among marginalized communities and incarcerated individuals. The Sustainable Mental Health Initiative builds long-term, accessible support systems, prioritizing structural solutions over short-term aid to ensure resilience, continuous care, and reintegration into society.
Building Lasting Support for Vulnerable Communities
Integrating Mental Health into Socio-Legal Aid
Embeds mental health support in legal aid, ensuring individuals in custodial settings receive psychological care alongside legal assistance through paralegals, counselors, and legal professionals.
Community-Based Mental Health Support
Trains grassroots workers and peer mentors to provide psychological first aid, emotional support, and referrals, while awareness campaigns reduce stigma and promote mental well-being.
Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Former Inmates
Supports former inmates with counseling, skill-building, and employment assistance to ease reintegration, reduce recidivism, and address post-incarceration mental health challenges.
Policy Advocacy for Mental Health Reforms
Promotes mental health screenings, therapy access in prisons, and alternative rehabilitation programs through collaboration with judicial bodies, policymakers, and correctional institutions.
Capacity Building and Training
Conducts workshops and training for prison staff, legal aid volunteers, and social workers to equip them with skills to support mental health in legal and correctional settings.
Benami Mahila with mental illness caught in the web of criminal justice
Wrongfully incarcerated for over four years due to a flawed legal process and ignored mental health needs, Gayatri Devi's identity was erased as 'Benami Mahila'. The LAW Foundation intervened to reunite her with her family, but the damage was irreversible. Read more to uncover her heartbreaking journey of injustice and loss.
