Community Health Promotion Fund through Counselling Programme recognizes that “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Mental health is defined as a state of well-being in which every individual realizes their own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully and is able to make a contribution to their community.

Mental health is part of our overall health, and influences how we feel, think and behave. It is also interlinked with our physical health. Mental health is not just the absence of distress or illness, but includes a sense of well-being, maintaining supportive relationships and feeling that one can be meaningfully productive in the community and are able to cope with the typical stresses of life.

Mental health and mental health conditions exist on a continuum that most of us go up or down as we go through life and have both positive and adverse experiences.

This is one of the programmes under CHPF that was started in July 2022. Counselling is a Social work venture performed through the HIPs, at the grassroots level. It was identified that some community members and patients at Bomani dispensary needed  psycho social  and counselling support especially the vulnerable and less fortunate ,helping them to work through challenges that they face in their daily life,  also helping them to meet basic and complex needs that will lead to improve lives of individual ,families ,groups and community at large