About the Pitch

Submitted By:  Bridge Foundation

Name of the Solution: Access to Mental Health Service

The Pitch in One Sentence:

Providing access to mental health services to women, children, people with disabilities and people from excluded communities

The Initiative in Video:

The Project on Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/187294091435120/Arts,EducationandJobs forDifferentlyAble:https://www.facebook.com/groups/764280420322804/andhttps://www.facebook.com/magicalartofsilence/

The Project Website: http://bridgebd.org/

Summary of the Pitch

In this Mental Health service centre (especially women, girls (being abandoned in brothels and living in shelters and disabled people) 1000 people get the mental health service 90% of people will return to normal life Identity how many people are aware of the mental health 1-year Relentless socio-economical-political unrest of respective areas; Timely implementation of activities due to COVID19 lockdown and restrictions

What specific problem is this initiative trying to solve? 

How can we build inclusive One-stop service centres in Bangladesh which will be able to address the challenges of mental health faced by girls and female youth disabilities , including men and boys

Details of the Pitched solution

Activity 1.2 Awareness session There will be 12 sessions for 50 participants 80% of participants maintain it in their daily life Positive thinking and love yourself Activity 1.3 Tracking mental health progress 50 participants 80% of participants Following up and tracking on regular basis to create a platform for the sustainability of project Component 2 Activity 2.1 Make a shop for crafts and tea stall One shop has both the services for the customers 50% of people get the job from shop They will conduct the shop 1 year Activity 2.2 Craft & Baking training 24 craft and 24 Baking training for 100 participants Get job in the shop and sell the products They will sell the handmade products 6 Months Component 3 Activity 3.1 Developing an app and website for mental health issues Alternatively, if the training focused on building independent businesses, the impact might be measured in the future by the number of jobs created in the community by the new businesses enabled by the training course, if the businesses counted can be directly attributable to the training program. Thus, without the training, the business would never have started. • Appraise accessibility of the extent of work required to ensure reasonable adjustment tools to improve the facilities. • Identify physical, technical, emotional, and cultural barriers to access against agreed pre-determined criteria. • Developing an app and website for mental health issues as well as tracking the progress of mental health and job opportunities One app and Website will be developed. All people get the information about the job and mental health issues Some participants would have information about the job and mental health issues. Online and offline services would be encouraged rather than commuting from one place to another place Make an environment-friendly shop for crafts and tea stall to serve the people both online and offline while producing natural fibre-based consumption, packing and container

Impact and Beneficiaries of the Pitched Solution

Impact measures the results that can be directly attributed to your outcomes. For example, output could be the number of students that completed a specialized training course. The outcome would then be how many of the graduates of that course were able to obtain and retain jobs or start a business because of that specialized training course. The impact could then be measured later in time in any number of ways depending on the specific goals of the project. For instance, the impact could be measured by the number of people with disabilities that became independent and productive members of their community (the program originally targeted unemployed persons with disabilities). 

What city, village and upazilas are this solution impacting?

Dhaka

Which division will this solution be impacting?

• Dhaka

What kind of support do you need to take your idea forward?

CSR Funds,

how much funds do you need to get started?

 BDT 500,000 to 1000,000

About Bridge Foundation

The project which BRIDGE inaugurated had been funded and supported by the ‘U.S State Department” under the entitled initiative of “AEIF” (Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund) in 2013.The project entered into the first phase which started on 26 April 2014 and continued till January 31 2015