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Category: Sierra Leone

Building an Ecosystem to Support Mental Health Prevention and Promotion and Stigma Reduction for Youth and Communities in Sierra Leone

Ecosystem Catalyst Grant Sierra LeoneStatus: Funded

Our Ecosystem Catalyst (EC) Grants help scale youth-led ideas, remove barriers to mental health prevention and promotion support, and test how youth-led innovation can work within and improve existing systems.View

Youth Readiness Intervention (YRI)

Transition-to-Scale Sierra LeoneSubstance UseService DeliveryStatus: Funded

The Youth Readiness Intervention (YRI) is a group-based trauma-informed mental health program that readies youth for life opportunities by addressing their mental health and psychosocial support needs. Through an emphasis...View

Wan De

Proof-of-Concept Sierra LeoneSubstance UseStorytellingStatus: Funded

The Wan De project is a culturally rooted, youth-led innovation that uses storytelling to educate, support, and empower young people. The program seeks to reduce substance use and stigma around...View

Entertain for Health Project (EHP)

Proof-of-Concept Sierra LeoneSubstance UseArts Games Peer-based SportsStatus: Funded

The EHP project will engage youth aged 10–24 in Bo District, Southern Sierra Leone, through sports and entertainment competitions to reduce harmful substance use. Organized by the Women Health Initiative,...View

Fight against Kush and substance abuse in Sierra Leone

Proof-of-Concept Sierra LeoneSubstance UsePeer-basedStatus: Funded

Advocacy for Youth Mental Health and Empowerment (AYMHE) is implementing a community and peer-based mental health awareness, and substance use prevention model in schools and community centers across Sierra Leone....View

It takes a village: empowering Freetown slum communities to prevent Kush use and promote wellbeing among addicted youth

Proof-of-Concept Sierra LeoneSubstance UseArts Peer-based SportsStatus: Funded

Led by Global Youth Network in partnership with YAMA and ARMeD Victims SL, this initiative aims to address widespread Kush use in four slum communities of Freetown, Sierra Leone, through...View
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