Aung Clinic Mental Health Initiative

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Youth Environmental Action and Hope ( YEAH ) Programme volume 3 မှာ ပါဝင်လေ့လာကြမယ့် လူငယ်တွေကို ဂုဏ်ယူစွာနဲ့ ရွေးချယ်ခဲ့ပြီးပါပြီ။

ဒါပေမယ့်လည်း အခုလို ငလျင်ဘေးအန္တရာယ်ကို အားလုံးထပ်တူ ရင်ဆိုင်ဖြေရှင်းနေစဉ်မှာ YEAH Programme vol:3 ကိုလည်း ရွှေ့ဆိုင်းထားပါကြောင်း အသိပေးလိုက်ပါတယ်နော်။

YEAH module ထဲက တစ်ခုဖြစ်တဲ့ mental health session ကိုတော့ ယခုအချိန်မှာ လူငယ်တွေအတွက် အလိုအပ်ဆုံးဖြစ်နေလိမ့်မယ်လို့ ယုံကြည်ထားပါတယ်။ ဒါ့ကြောင့်မို့ ဒီ session လေးကို မနက်ဖြန်မှာ online မှတစ်ဆင့် ပြောကြားပေးသွားမှာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။



ဒီ session လေးကို ဦးဆောင်သွားမယ့်သူကတော့
Aung Clinic Mental Health Initiativeမှ ဒေါက်တာ အောင်မင်းပဲဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ လူတိုင်းသိသင့်သော စိတ်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ ဗဟုသုတများကို သင်ကြားပေးမယ့်အပြင် လူငယ်တွေသိချင်နေတဲ့ မေးခွန်းတွေကိုပါ ဖြေပေးသွားဦးမှာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။


YEAH Programme ရဲ့ volume 3 အစကို စိတ်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာကျန်းမာရေးအတန်းနဲ့အတူ အများနဲ့အတူ မျှဝေရင်း အစပြုလိုက်ပါပြီ။

European Union in Myanmar EU SWITCH-Asia Programme

The impact of mental health conditions spans across age, gender, geography, and social status, with long-stay institutions persisting for some patients with mental health conditions globally.

By confining people with mental health conditions to institutions, the cycle of stigma and exclusion is perpetrated. Transitioning to community-based care offers greater autonomy and quality of life, fostering independence and social engagement.

Deinstitutionalization proves cost-effective, reallocating resources efficiently while alleviating financial strains on healthcare systems.

The recently published “Deinstitutionalization of people with mental health conditions in the WHO SEA Region” report provides an overview of the process of deinstitutionalization of mental health care undertaken in the countries of the WHO South-East Asia Region.

The community based mental health initiatives of Aung clinic in Myanmar has recognized as a best practice in the report.”

Further details:

https://www.who.int/publications-detail-redirect/9789290211211 #:~:text=Deinstitutionalization%20of%20mental%20health%20care,for%20delivering%20mental%20health%20services

We would like to announce Support for victims of the Myanmar earthquake “Silent Voices” from our partner Tokyo Soteria. Stay tune.

Support for victims of the Myanmar earthquake – 東京ソテリア Support for victims of the Myanmar earthquake 日本語　မြန်မာဘာသာစကား　English ～Tokyo Soteria’s Initiatives and Future Action Plan～ On March 28, 2025, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar, resulting in many casualties and forcing numerous people to ...

Support and Consultation

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင်ဖြစ်ပွါးခဲ့သည့် ငလျင်နှင့်ဆက်စပ်ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာသော စိတ်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာပြဿနာများအတွက် ဆွေးနွေးတိုင်ပင်လိုပါက Aung Mental Health Initiativeသို့ *အခမဲ့* စာရင်းပေး ဆက်သွယ်နိုင်ပါတယ်

Due to recent disasters in Myanmar, individual consultations are available at Aung MHI *free of charge*

ဆက်သွယ်ရန် - +95 95186951, +95 9958219602, +95 9262550937
Aung MHI

Aung clinic mental health initiative (Aung MHI)
Is a community-based clinic situated in Yangon, Myanmar. The vision of Aung MHI is for the people with different mental health conditions to have the access to right based recovery care in their community based mental health services. It provides quality mental health and psycho social services for the people effected especially with severe mental health problems and their families in order for participants to fit in with their families and their community through strong and progressive community based general health integrated mental health care, psycho social recovery and rehabilitation for mental health problems as well through art therapy, wellbeing and welfare of the participants, empowering caregivers and family members. Aung clinic collaborates with professionals, local and internationals organizations for their invaluable contribution along the process of better mental health care in Myanmar; namely, ethnic health organizations (Back Pack Health Worker Team) and their community volunteers for development of their general health integrated community based mental health care services and roles and responsibilities for EHOs for right to access to health and mental health in culturally appropriate ways and to develop UHC (Universal Health Coverage) according to SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). Trauma informed and health care is integrated part of Aung MHI which develops the peer/self-help group among psycho social disable communities for peer support works and advocacy for development of deinstitutionalization, quality mental health policy, legislation, quality mental health care, rights of people with psycho social disability and to work and cooperate together with cross disabilities for disability rights. The initiative also integrates art into the mental health and psychosocial care with a number of debuted films, The Clinic (2014), Heartbroken Bird(2017), The Clinic (2024) by Midi-Z along with four art exhibitions since 2019.
The Room is the community art space operated by Aung Mental Health Initiative with focus on the individuals with severe mental health issues. Offering long-term psycho-social support, art therapy, family counselling, psychiatric medication, support groups, medical-based care and vocational skill trainings through art. Through community-based care model and art-based interventions, Aung MHI assist individuals who are at risk of being institutionalized and those living in mental hospitals by integrating them back into society.

https://www.aungclinicmh.org (https://www.aungclinicmh.org/)

Aung MHI team and partners

Without wonderfully precise organisation, the cell would lapse into chaos.

Thomas Südhof helped solve the mystery of how the cell organises its transport system. Each cell is a factory that produces and exports molecules, transported around the cell in small packages called vesicles.

Three laureates shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the molecular principles that govern how this cargo is delivered to the right place at the right time in the cell. Südhof revealed how signals instruct vesicles to release their cargo with precision.

Their work is of huge importance because defective vesicle transport occurs in a variety of diseases including a number of neurological and immunological disorders, as well as in diabetes.

Learn more about Südhof and his work: https://bit.ly/3XFKe1y

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