Opportunity for you to Join the Mind Connect East Africa Initiative
Mental Health Tanzania (MHT), in partnership with Truthshare, is bringing mental health professionals
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To sustain/ maintain mental health and wellbeing of every individual through intervention and preventive measures such as psychoeducation, mental health awareness, advocacy, mental health training and mentorship, community psychological and psychosocial support, mental health research.
To provide treatments and managements of mental illnesses and psychological challenges to service users (mental and medical approach) through holistic mental health clinical and psychiatric services such as screening, assessments and diagnosis, providing psychotherapy, counselling and guidance as well as offering Tele-Mental Health Services
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What exactly is Mental Health Tanzania (MHT) all about?
MHT is the leading mental healthcare organization in Tanzania for creating, designing, and implementing programs, projects, campaigns, and activities across the country and beyond on mental healthcare; with two (2) main thematic focuses and six (6) specialty areas of target (objectives)
Objectives
Specialty areas of target (Objectives)
Mental Health Clincial Services
MHT works with a network of 30+ mental health professionals
Awareness & Advocacy
Through partnerships and community engagement
Workplace Mental Health Training
MHT supports organizations to improve employee wellbeing
Mental Health Assessment & Screening
MHT introduced Swahili-translated screening tools
Program Tuliza Self-Help Tool
Self-help mental health tool designed to support individuals
Program Academy- MHT Youths ClubS
It has been implemented in 13 schools and 5 universitie
You want to be part of our Team?
Be our ambassador, Volunteer, Internship, Practicum, and Fieldwork
MHT provides the opportunities to be an ambassador, volunteers, internship, and practicum /fieldwork students, from Tanzania as well as any part of the world, offering the chance to participate effectively in helping the Tanzanian community to promote mental health in different ways depending on the interests, passion, education background, and admiration in Mental health.
Become an Ambassador & Volunteer
Volunteers have been the backbone of the organization. These volunteers have provided the time, money, energy, experience, skills etc. to implement organization objectives, programs, projects, and activities. Volunteers have been the bridge for the organization to excel, have provided connections and networking for different opportunities.
Become an Intern
This is specifically for Degree, Masters and PhD Students who are pursuing their studies in any mental health related field such as Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, Counselling, Law, Information Technology, or related field. It is a volunteering-based program. This program is coordinated by mental health professionals or licensed clinicians as the supervisors of the program hence the intern student reports directly to an assigned supervisor.
Become a PRACTICUM /FIELDWORK
This is mainly based for students who are pursuing different programs such as law, IT, Journalist, Psychology, Counselling, Social work, Community development and alike, in Certificate Diploma and degree levels.
Success Story
Pioneering the Advocacy for Transformation of Mental Healthcare in Tanzania
Since its establishment, MHT has played a pivotal role in transforming mental healthcare in Tanzania by:
Serving as a leading advocate (frontline organization) for revolutionizing mental health services across the country.
Setting a standard and motivating other mental health stakeholders to shift the narrative surrounding mental health in the country
Inspiring, influencing and role model to hundreds of agencies, NGOs, government bodies, and other stakeholders, as well as hundreds of thousands of individuals, to champion mental health advocacy in Tanzania.
Depression, Anxiety Stress Management
Program Tuliza-Self Help Tool
MHT managed to create the program of self-help tool, nicked named as “Programu Tuliza” to help in management of some mental disorders such as Anxiety, Depressive and stress related disorders.
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Why Choose MHT Over Others to Enquire our Services, Partner, Sponsor, Work or Volunteer with us?
Would you trust, partner, sponsor, work, or volunteer with a mental health organization that’s
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