CREATING AWARENESS WITH ISSUP VIBECHECK AMONG CORPERS

ASHNATHASHA FOUNDATION MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS AND ADDICTION PREVENTION SEMINAR TO CORPS MEMBERS IN ADO-ODO LGA OF OGUN STATE

Ashnathasha Foundation is a registered NGO the runs an integrated evidence-based and faith-based outreaches to youths under two programmatic arms namely: Living by DESIGN Institute and Career by DESIGN Initiative. 

The Living by DESIGN Institute is the arm that is focused on mental health awareness, addiction prevention and recovery among youths. It is this arm that facilitated the seminar with the corps members in the Ado-Odo LGA area of Ogun State and has been doing so on monthly basis since the beginning of the year. The focus of this seminar to identify corps members unique mental health stressors and the provision of evidence-based coping strategies that helps to avoid unhealthy coping strategies that is readily available to them. 

The foundation employs the DESIGN framework as a coping and prevention strategies which is consistent with the UNODC-WHO 2018 prevention standards.

D — Discover Your Identity

E — Educate Your Mind of how your brain works

S — Strengthen Your Protective Factors

I — Identify Risks Early

G — Grow in Purpose

N — Nurture a Life of Transformation in community

The corps members were introduced to VIBECHECK, an online application owned by ISSUP, that help users assess their mental health and seek for help through an appropriate channel whenever their is a concern.

About 600 corps members were reached with knowledge of mental health, coping strategies, and the how to use the VIBECHECK to get help.