Mental health to all
An initiative empowering stakeholders & fostering health of the people,
by the people & for the people
An entrepreneurship project forming chain of rehabilitation
centers providing employability to stakeholders
Ishita Sanyal
Saswata Sanyal
India
Mental Health Challenges –The
need of the hour
Marginalization
Unemployment or lack of meaningful engagement
Homelessness
The burden of illness on families
Stigma & lack of awareness
Lack of Professionals to handle crisis situation
Inability to access treatment from remote areas
Conflict amongst policy makers
Isolation
Violation of Human Rights
Mental Health Challenges
in India
According to NIMHANS over two crore persons in India are in need of treatment for
serious mental disorder and five crore suffer from common mental disorder.
Non Availability of professionals & Non Accessibility of medical facilities
Stigma, neglect, lack of love & acceptance.
Lack of awareness & lack of Psycho education amongst the family members of the
sufferers.
Conflict, Confusion & Condemning of sufferers
Lack of rehabilitation center keeping in view the intellectual needs of the people
suffering from MI.
Lack of Self Help group.
Huge economic pressure on the family member.
No hope for the future
Life confined to four walls of dark rooms.
Hopelessness & Helplessness
Huge treatment gap, with 50-90% people not able to access services, is a serious
human rights issue.
The Project Idea
To start a social enterpreneurship programme
involving stakeholders, their family, the community
where they live & also the educational institutions to
make mental health accessible to all.
A centralised training center would not only
rehabilitate person suffering from mental illness but
train the individuals to run small rehab cum cyber café
& train others to open respective chain of centers.
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An entrepreneurship scheme –
The innovation
InvolvingStakeholders
Their families
The community
The students
The teachers
Making new entrepreneurs
To make health accessible at all parts
At affordable cost
Utilising the limited resource
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Empowering the people suffering from illness
It is Mental Health Of the people By the people For the people
Developing a chain of networking with family members, stakeholders &
community people
The Impact
Patient –They will get the service, rehabilitation facilities at their doorstep at
minimum cost & it would enable them to get employment or earn money &
make them ecomomiclly & socially empowered. Engagement in work decreases
their symptoms.
oAfter completion of rehab training they would be the trainers of the
programme who would help other sufferers in the process of recovery&
run cyber café under supervision & gain economic freedom
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oEvery people can have access to health care,
access to professional guidance without any
hindrance caused by distance.
oBy community participation the inclusion of
the disabled in to the society can be made
possible.
oThe internet would also make it possible to
get 24 hours specialist support for all.
oSharing of information would be possible
not only locally but all over the world & we
can keep volunteers from mental health field
from all over the world.
The Impact
 Health care professionals-Prognosis &
development depends not only on pharmacotherapy but
effective management & handling of the person
concerned. This project helps in it. Professionals can
remain connected with everyone through internet.
They can deliver services to more people as the people
involved in this project is handling the minor crisis
intervention & other necessities. Professionals are thus
not bothered to look in to minor issues-but can together
in this team get opportunity to reach more people.
 Professionals from all over the world can lend some
time & make this project a success.
The impact
 Family members-
Do not have to travel long distance for
treatment. Become part of the treatment & learn to handle crtisis
situation. Can contact professionals available online at any time & get a
mental support.
 Community-Initiating positive mental health to all, wiping away the
stigma, getting the affected individual involved in the community as well
as get a chance to be a part of the benevolent project
 Policy makers-
They are till now not able to differentiate between
the need of MR & MI.They do not have needed change in the policy.
This project would enable them to understand their role & duties &
interact with policy makers & professionals world wide to know the
latest change in treatment process.
 Society-Involving family, community, policy makers & also
educational institute helps to change the perception that is present till
now in the society. Learning warning signals make the community to
lend treatment whenever required. Community participation also wipe
away the stigma & hence people opt for treatment more than they used to
do previously. Positive mental health can also be inculcated in society.
Internet acts as a scope to interact anytime with sufferers, family
members & professionals.
Economic feasibility
 Total Fixed
costUS$42098
 Total
variable
cost(2
Years)US$50835
 Total costUS$92934
Revenue generated
From Pyramid
training in 2 yearsUS$54717
Revenue from
rehab-US$23889
Total-US$78605
So after third year
we would reach the
break even point
People involved
It would have a ripple effect. From Single Central
training center the people involved would be No. of people enrolled in 1st year-35
 No. of people enrolled in 2nd year-295
 No. of mentally challenged rehabilitated in 1st year450
 No. of mentally challenged rehabilitated in 2nd year1150
This is the minimum number that is calculated that too
only if 1 in five person initiates a center. If Two in 5
people participate the number would be double.
Innovation & the health 2.0 Spirit
Involving the professionals of the whole world
Educational institutions
 Professionals
 Families
 Community
 Media
 Corporate house
 Policy makers
 Doctors
To make mental health awareness & best possible
treatment available at the door step
Organisational feasibility
 This enterpreneurship health project would give rise to a chain of
enterpreneurs who are either stakeholders or their relatives or
people from the community.
 After training they would themselves run the organisation.
 The Central training center would offer support whenever needed
through internet & help the chain of centers to start up their
projects as well as collect a revenue from them as part of
consultation fees
 They would also offer help to start up small centers in remote
areas.
 Support from professionals all over the world would also be
available together with the scope of sharing everyday success &
failures
Health to all
 Mental health problems affect one in four people & so we
have no time to overlook this giant problem otherwise a
huge chunk of today’s society including the youth would
be a burden on others.
 They account for 19.5% of all disability-adjusted lifeyears.
 This unique project can be a model project to make
mental health care accessible for all at low cost &
involving stakeholders & their family members to make
them empowered ,bring social inclusion & provide a key
to employment & meaningful engagement for the future.
 The total expenditure done by one family is One lakh
rupees/ year in India. So the total expenditure on 1150
people rehabilitated would be 1640000 Euro only which
is far less than the expenditure to run this model
rehabilitation cum cyber café center. This model would
also give a return & would turn out to be profitable after
three year.