TINADA

TINADA Youth Organization is a community-based organization working in the western part of Kenya focusing on integrated mental health rights education and campaigns, child and youth empowerment, sexual reproductive health and disaster risk-reduction.

TINADA exists to promote integrated health, education empowerment, human rights advocacy, disaster risk-reduction and economic empowerment among the marginalized youth and families leaving within the Lake Victoria Region through capacity building, support services, mentorship, demonstrated good practices and strategic networking.

We work on ending stigma and discrimination among persons suffering from mental health, neurological and substance use disorders and increasing their access to quality mental health care services, education opportunities, leadership involvement and respect for their human rights. We do this by integrating and coordinating holistic prevention, promotion, rehabilitation and support that aims at meeting mental health care needs with evidenced-based research.

We focus on five main Pillars:

• Mental Health Prevention
• Therapies
• Rehabilitation
• Rights Advocacy
• Research
• Mental Health Financing Advocacy