Who We Are
Celebrating 27 years of supporting people in their times of need
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As a response to the above challenge, a group of concerned individuals from various walks of life came together on the initiative of Shri Abdul Mabood and formed a non-profit organization focusing on the mental health & well- being needs of the community called SNEHI on the 12th of October 1994. It was registered as a Society in April 1996 under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 at Delhi.
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Since its inception, Snehi has been engaged in different projects to energize society and its institutions, as well as help individuals, face the aforesaid challenges to their psychosocial wellbeing. Snehi primarily focuses on addressing the emotional and mental health needs of the community and provides psychological counseling and support to people in crisis to prevent suicides & mental disorders and promote positive mental health.
Snehi aims to fulfill its vision by partnering and working with like-minded individuals/organizations, who are committed to similar values and objectives. Snehi realizes that it is only through joint efforts that a truly conducive macro-environment can be created for the care and growth of every individual. Though Snehi works to heal and support people from all walks of life.
Impacted 1,47,562 lives
Since its inception, with the support of hundreds of professionals and humanitarian volunteers, donors, and sympathizers from different walks of life, Snehi has reached out to more than 1,41,223 individuals in distress and has helped them through its crisis intervention telephonic counseling and referral services.
Our Mission
Positive Mental Health
Our Model
The good news is that the majority of people who experience emotional and mental health issues or problems can do things to manage or overcome these issues, and lead satisfying lives
Snehi helps support people in mental distress through three main services.
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Educate
We educate people, particularly young people, professionals and caregivers to take care of their own psychological well being and mental health to feel good, remain comfortable and productive
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We work to promote the wellbeing and positive mental health of children, adolescents, and families from all walks of life through effective counselling and support.
Counselling and support
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We advocate making mental health a basic human right in India and ensuring that people with mental health issues are able to live in the community with dignity and participate in society with respect.
Advocacy
Our Guiding Principles
The basic principles guiding Snehi’s work are:
Our Objectives
To increase outreach in order to help more people in distress by providing crisis intervention counseling support, through counseling, guidance, referral, and rehabilitation efforts including but not limited to telephonic and face-to-face counseling using available interactive technologies.
To develop a centre of excellence for training and research in mental health. Through this centre, people interested in joining the field will be trained in various aspects of mental health care. As an outcome, a rich human resource base of competent & compassionate professionals will be developed who can fill the void of trained human resources to work with people for their mental health care in society.
Mental Health is a Fundamental Right, not a privilege
Preamble
In the contemporary world, we are witnessing a process of change in all walks of life in a manner that humanity has not perhaps encountered before. Rapid and radical advancements in the field of science and technology, particularly in IT, and “globalization” in economic, political, and socio-cultural spheres have brought about unprecedented changes in the way people look at and experience life. In such a scenario, the beliefs and values of people and institutions are in flux.
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The traditional institutions and support structures seem to give way to the ones that are yet to be ascertained and consolidated with certainty. Such a state of affairs, though conspicuous in an urban area, is not confined to it. The pristine and innocent rural life is more of a romantic idea for some people than a reality.
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In fact, as far as the aforesaid contemporary changes are concerned, the gap between cities, towns, and villages is increasingly diminishing. Concomitant with these changes are the various psychosocial problems faced by the people.
Family disputes, marital discords, strained or broken relations, lack of communication between parents and children, problems of value conflict, maladjustment problems, depression, loneliness, alcoholism, and drug addiction, problems related to sexuality, sexual identity and reproductive health & choice, incest, and sexual abuse, neglected senior citizens and their problems, stresses of consumerist and market-driven society, rising crimes against children & women, unchecked sectarian violence, racial & gender discrimination, hunger, massive unemployment, dwindling economy, decreasing faith in the justice system, crumbling democratic institutions, rising hate-based violence, diminishing common civic space for all, increasing gap between haves and have-nots, continuous attack on rights of citizens, etc., many known & unknown issues are the part of contemporary life that poses serious challenges to people’s psychosocial wellbeing.