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The emotional health of several children is impacted by the stressful, even exploitative, conditions under which they live. SBT has set-up a mental health programme with a team of professional counselors headed by a senior psychiatrist. The team addresses the mental health needs of children with counselors; where intensive or long-term treatment is required, children are referred to expert psychiatrists. During the |
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Year 2006-07 mental health team addressed 69 cases.
| Conducted Individual Supportive session |
689 |
| In house capacity building workshop |
16 |
| Outreach training workshop |
9 |
| Staff support group meeting |
30 |
This program also attempts to train SBT staff to improve their counseling skills, enabling them to identify cases, refer them, intervene appropriately; and finally, to document cases, thus augmenting the organization's capacity to offer individualized care to all children in need of help
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