Achievements

The first psych corps workshop was held on 26th March, 2014 at the Accra City Hotel. The theme for the workshop was “The need for task shifting in mental health delivery”. The purpose of the workshop was to facilitate collaborative solutions to Ghana’s mental health system to provide better care for its citizens.

The 2nd annual meeting of the Psych Corps of Ghana was held on Tuesday 5th May, 2015 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ridge in Accra. The meeting was organized by the mental Health Authority, Yale University, and the Mental Health Technical Support Team. The main objective of the meeting was to discuss how best to ground the Psych Corps in the regions, fully integrate their functioning with community psychiatric nurses and clinical psychologists, and also begin discussions on the possibility of new curricular according to the requirements of community mental health care.

A three-day workshop for “On boarding the Psych Corps and the introduction of a toolkit for training lay counselors for community based mental health care” was held from 5th to 9th May 2015 at Stevens Hotel, in Ho. The aim of the workshop was to senior level regional personnel on the psych corps and providing training on the toolkit to high caliber regional health trainers.