NEW DELHI, Oct. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On the event of World Psychological Well being Day (tenth October), the India Psychological Well being Alliance (IMHA), a cross-sectoral community of 400 organisations from 30 Indian states, reaffirms its dedication to recognising lived expertise as experience, making certain that the voices of individuals and susceptible communities who’ve skilled psychological well being challenges; are central to how care is designed and delivered.
Homecoming: Psychological Well being Journeys of Resilience, Therapeutic & Wholeness
IMHA was based with the assumption that psychological well being is a shared developmental precedence for the nation, and constructing a powerful system of care requires collective duty. Over the previous two years, IMHA has engaged with 3,380 psychological well being professionals throughout 135+ cities, and mobilised its member organisations to construct collective capability, allow knowledge-sharing, and embed lived expertise experience in care design and apply.
“These lived experiences provide an essential supply of data about what psychological healthcare seems like in apply i.e. how folks expertise providers, navigate methods and search help inside their social and cultural contexts throughout India. IMHA believes that bringing medical experience along with lived and practice-based data, is important to constructing a psychological well being ecosystem that’s extra equitable, contextual and aware of folks’s numerous wants,” mentioned Dr. Kavita Arora, Baby & Adolescent Psychiatrist and Founding Cohort Member of IMHA.
In direction of this dedication IMHA is constructing a co-curated and collaborative Data Hub to make data accessible from numerous sources and modalities, for eg-practitioner insights, discipline classes, medical and lived expertise experience and educational analysis grounded in native contexts.
As a part of its broader work to amplify and mainstream lived expertise as experience, IMHA proudly presents India’s first anthology of lived-experience narratives by 11 girls leaders from throughout sectors, ‘Homecoming: Psychological Well being Journeys of Resilience, Therapeutic & Wholeness’. This evocative e-book brings collectively first-person accounts of ladies in city India navigating extreme psychological well being circumstances, together with despair, advanced PTSD, suicide loss, intergenerational trauma, anxiousness and OCD. In sharing their journeys, they invite us to replicate on how households, communities, workplaces and healthcare professionals perceive and reply to psychological well being circumstances. Hyperlink to quick movie | Hyperlink to the e-book
In regards to the India Psychological Well being Alliance (IMHA)
The India Psychological Well being Alliance (IMHA) is a Part 8 not-for-profit organisation launched in late 2023 as a partnership between Vasvi and Ashish Bharat Ram, Amaha Well being and Kids First. IMHA is a cross-sectoral nationwide alliance working to strengthen India’s psychological well being ecosystem by convening stakeholders, constructing capacities and catalysing collaboration at scale, with a member base of 400 organisations throughout 30 Indian states representing well being, gender, livelihood, local weather & training. It focuses on capacity-building for neighborhood organisations, healthcare and academic establishments, in addition to particular person psychological well being practitioners by means of multi-channel data sharing and studying initiatives. By way of its work, IMHA goals to mainstream psychological well being as a nationwide growth precedence; enhance the standard of care; embed Lived Expertise Experience (LEE) in care design and apply; and mobilise long-term, unrestricted capital for India’s psychological well being ecosystem.
