Manas Foundation

Manas Foundation was founded in the year 2000 by a group of mental health professionals in response to their experience with the need for mental healthcare in the society. Coming from the fields of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, we shared the dream of rendering comprehensive psychological and educational services under one roof. We are a registered trust and the past few years have seen Manas contributing more to the community and training, while maintaining our commitment to multidisciplinary clinical services. Our mission statement is to generate awareness and make psychological services available to as many people as possible. We work with all segments of the population like women, elderly, children and adolescents as well as the marginalized groups, to understand their emotional stressors and to strengthen their coping mechanism. In this effort, we provide our expertise both through our own centre and in collaboration with like-minded organizations, already active within the community. To this end, we have built partnerships with government organizations and civil society groups to integrate the mental health component into their critical interventions. We train NGO professionals in building their psychological skills and supporting them in setting up community-based counseling centers. Additionally we are developing capacities of communities and training barefoot mental health professionals especially in rural areas where access to mental health services is unavailable. Thus, we train professionals by imparting hands on experience in psychological skills and paraprofessionals by hand holding and education; this has greatly enhanced our reach and capabilities in our efforts to achieve our goals.