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Ashadeep - an organization founded
in 1996 in Guwahati works in the field of mental health in
North-East India. Ashadeep's focus lies on psychosocial rehabilitation
for persons with mental illness.
There is a dismal
lack of Mental Health related of India. Ashadeep
through its work addresses the impact and associated burden
of mental illness for the affected individual as well as his
or her family thereby moving beyond a mere clinical and medical
intervention for persons with mental illness. Ashadeep works
to provide rehabilitation and care at the level of the family
and the community. Working with the families of persons with
mental illness has also led Ashadeep to work with women who
are homeless and mentally ill, with the ultimate aim of reintegrating
them back with their families. This has extended and given
a new dimension to family interventions in the field of mental
health.
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