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The Wellness Department focuses on facilitating beneficiaries and caregivers contacting us for help to receive the appropriate mental health support to improve their well-being and refer those requiring specialized services to the relevant providers. After the launch of our public awareness program, several beneficiaries started getting in touch with us for mental health support. Initially we referred them to external providers, but several beneficiaries couldn’t access in-person services and the existing virtual services did not cater to their needs. The Taskeen Helpline was launched in September 2020 to bridge this gap and was designed to be a virtual outpatient service offering telephonic mental health counselling, psychotherapy and psychiatric support based on the beneficiary’s needs.
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The Advocacy Department mobilizes civil society to lobby governmental stakeholders to increase investment in mental health and enact legislations and policies to improve the mental health landscape in Pakistan. The aim of Taskeen’s other departments have been to develop impactful and cost-effective models that can be sustained and scaled. However, we are cognizant of the fact that we cannot achieve true scale unless we partner with the government. In addition, there are structural barriers that prevent access to quality mental health services that can only be addressed at the policy level, which is why the advocacy department was developed and launched in March 2020.
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The Research Department enhances Taskeen’s role in the mental health sector by conducting research to support program implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of findings to inform evidence-based interventions and policies. Over the years, Taskeen has developed and implemented different programs to address mental health challenges in Pakistan. Recognizing the critical need to document and share learnings from these initiatives, the Research Department was formed in March 2022 to integrate evidence-based methodologies into Taskeen’s programs and to contribute to the global mental health literature.