{"id":2322,"date":"2025-02-18T14:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T14:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/being-initiative.org\/?post_type=innovation&#038;p=2322"},"modified":"2025-03-12T20:07:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T20:07:52","slug":"braveheartintervention","status":"publish","type":"innovation","link":"https:\/\/being-initiative.org\/fr\/innovations\/braveheartintervention\/","title":{"rendered":"Brave Heart Intervention: Preventing Substance Use Disorders among Young People in Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1640\" src=\"https:\/\/being-initiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Brave-Heart-pic-community-entry-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/being-initiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Brave-Heart-pic-community-entry-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/being-initiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Brave-Heart-pic-community-entry-500x320.jpg 500w, https:\/\/being-initiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Brave-Heart-pic-community-entry-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/being-initiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Brave-Heart-pic-community-entry-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/being-initiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Brave-Heart-pic-community-entry-1536x984.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/being-initiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Brave-Heart-pic-community-entry-2048x1312.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/being-initiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Brave-Heart-pic-community-entry-18x12.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo Credit: Slum and Rural Health Initiative<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div id=\"ql-bg-container-block_42b1decd0e3bae5e3df6e75951dfc34c\" class=\"acf-block ql-bg-container bg-white\"><div class=\"ql-bg-container-inner\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Organisation de mise en \u0153uvre : <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/srhin.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Slum and Rural Health Initiative<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Type de projet :&nbsp;<\/strong>du D\u00e9ploiement \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chelle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lieu :&nbsp;<\/strong>Freetown, Sierra Leone<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Domaine(s) th\u00e9matique(s)<\/strong>: Digital, Peer-based<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/being-initiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SRHINs-logo-1024x194.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2323\" style=\"width:216px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/being-initiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SRHINs-logo-1024x194.png 1024w, https:\/\/being-initiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SRHINs-logo-500x95.png 500w, https:\/\/being-initiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SRHINs-logo-768x145.png 768w, https:\/\/being-initiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SRHINs-logo-1536x291.png 1536w, https:\/\/being-initiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SRHINs-logo-18x3.png 18w, https:\/\/being-initiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SRHINs-logo.png 1764w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Brave Heart Intervention (BHI), launched by the Slum and Rural Health Initiative (SRHIN) in 2021, aims to tackle mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) challenges among youth aged 10 to 24. Initially piloted in internally displaced camps in Nigeria, the project is now expanding to Freetown, Sierra Leone. BHI focuses on prevention by addressing key risk factors for mental health issues, offering young people essential information and practical tools for making informed decisions, along with life skills training to enhance job readiness and competencies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With prior funding from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandchallenges.ca\/programs\/global-mental-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Grands D\u00e9fis Canada<\/a> for proof-of-concept, SRHIN implemented this project in Nigeria and showed that community members could effectively deliver trusted and community-based mental health support for young people through the BHI intervention, which led to meaningful improvements in mental health outcomes. Now, with TTS funding from Being, SRHIN is expanding BHI\u2019s reach to address SUD prevention in Sierra Leone, training teachers and community members with lived experience to deliver culturally relevant SUD literacy to youth in high schools and local communities. The curriculum, developed in English and three local languages, will be shared through the <a href=\"https:\/\/srhin.org\/our-project\/simbihealth-project\/\">SIMBI Health mobile app<\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"ql-button-block_9b92e398d235e7dd87ede9a909f00a72\" class=\"acf-block ql-button button-left\"><a class=\"ql-button-link\" href=\"https:\/\/srhin.org\/our-project\/braveheart-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visit Slum and Rural Health Initiative&#8217;s website to learn more!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"template":"","innovation_country":[50],"innovation_project_type":[49],"driver":[72],"thematic-area":[63,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-2322","1":"innovation","2":"type-innovation","3":"status-publish","5":"innovation_country-sierra-leone","6":"innovation_project_type-transition-to-scale","7":"driver-substance-use","8":"thematic-area-digital","9":"thematic-area-peer-based","10":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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