Friendship Bench
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Friendship Bench® Podcast
Friendship Bench provides sustainable community based psychological interventions that are evidence based, accessible and scalable.
OUR MISSION: To Get People Out of Depression by Creating Safe Spaces and a Sense of Belonging in Communities to Enhance Quality of Life
​OUR VISION: A Friendship Bench Within Walking Distance For All
OUR VALUES: Empathy & Connection; Anchored in Research
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Melody Banda's Story - Friendship Bench Community Health Worker
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Friendship Bench provides sustainable community based psychological interventions that are evidence based, accessible and scalable. OUR MISSION: Creating Safe Spaces and a Sense of Belonging in Communities to Enhance Quality of Life ​OUR VISION: A Friendship Bench Within Walking Distance For All OUR VALUES: Empathy & Connection; Anchored in Research
The Friendship Bench Documentary Trailer
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In 2006, Dr. Dixon Chibanda, a psychiatrist in Zimbabwe, was ordered by the government to deal with the severe mental health crisis afflicting the nation. However, there was literally a handful of psychiatrists in the entire country, which meant searching for a solution beyond conventional medicine. That forced him to consider grandmothers (Gogos) as his only option. Starting with a group of 14...
FRIENDZ Project Launch - WHO, MoHCC, Friendship Bench, Zim-TTECH, Grand Challenges Canada, Pamumvuri
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Friendship Bench celebrates the launch of the FRIENDZ Project in partnership with WHO and the Ministry of Health and Child Care. This project supports scaling up provision of mental health services at primary health care level. This marks a major milestone in the growth trajectory of Friendship Bench as we strive to make mental health services accessible in all 10 provinces of Zimbabwe. Friends...
Caring for the Carer Webinar 2022 : OPHID & Friendship Bench
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Health Care Worker Webinar Focusing on the theme: "Caring For the Ca​rer, Psychological Wellbeing For All Health Care Workers" Facilitated by Friendship Bench and the Organisation for Public Health Interventions, supported by WHO and MoHCC Mental Health Department. Speakers Include: Ms Tarisai Bere (OPHID) Ms Sara Page-Mtongwiza (OPHID) Dr Rukudzo Mwamuka (Friendship Bench) Mr Tapiwa Takaona (F...
Workplace Mental Wellbeing - WHO & MoHCC Guest of Honour Speeches
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The Friendship Bench Workplace Mental Wellbeing programme is a proud partnership between the Ministry of Health and Child Care and the World Health Organisation Zimbabwe. This graduation, our 50 latest Workplace Mental Wellbeing Champions, representing some of the biggest corporates in Zimbabwe who have decided to make mental health accessible in the workplace were enlightened and inspired by g...
Workplace Mental Wellbeing - Self-care with Bernice
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Maintaining a work-life balance and prioritizing mental health are essential to our overall well-being. The need to take a break and engage in stress reducing activities is now more important than ever as we go in and out of covid lockdowns, work from home changes and upheavals of routines. Bernice, Friendship Bench Workplace Mental Wellbeing trainer talks more about the need for work-life bala...
Workplace Mental Wellbeing - What's the problem?
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It’s important to recognise and acknowledge that being in work, is, in itself, good for health! Work is important to an individual’s identity, health and economic wellbeing; however, work can also be a source of extreme stress which built up over a prolonged period of time can lead to mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, substance abuse and in extreme cases suicide. Consider thes...
Workplace Mental Wellbeing with Godknows
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Stigma, discrimination and lack of mental health infrastructure in the workplace create an environment that is not conducive to employee mental wellbeing. Godknows, from Cimas iGo, shares what he is doing with the Friendship Bench & WHO as a Mental Wellbeing Champion and indeed, what can be done from an organisational level to make a difference and promote an empowered and mentally positive wor...
Workplace Mental Wellbeing with Helen
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Workplaces can play an essential part in maintaining positive mental health for workers. Employees need and should expect sustainable mental health services in workplaces. This requires an inhouse team to take on the work of culture change; making a shift towards mental health positivity and empathy over output demands and phrases such as "if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen." It...
Workplace Mental Wellbeing with Shupikai
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Poor mental health among the workforce imposes tremendous costs on our organisations, the number often quoted from the Davos Economic Foum is about US$1 trillion PER YEAR in lost productivity! Yet barriers to positive mental wellbeing in the workplace remain. Including poor investments in mental health support, lack of knowledge and awareness, stigma and discrimination and unaffrodable and unac...
Workplace Mental Wellbeing - ToT Graduation - WHO, MoHCC
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Workplace Mental Wellbeing - ToT Graduation - WHO, MoHCC
WMHD 2021 Warm-Up - Empathy, Connectedness & Social Prescribing
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WMHD 2021 Warm-Up - Empathy, Connectedness & Social Prescribing
Friendship Bench Friends Welcome & Opening
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Friendship Bench Friends Welcome & Opening
Empathy, Belonging, Connection | On the Friendship Bench
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Empathy, Belonging, Connection | On the Friendship Bench
Friendship Bench - Zimbabwe
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Friendship Bench - Zimbabwe
YouFB - cOme tAlk aBout iT! ©
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YouFB - cOme tAlk aBout iT! ©
ThriveNYC Friendship Bench
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ThriveNYC Friendship Bench