How students and grandparents could solve the global mental-health crisis
Briefly

"Whitney Ndemo, a psychologist at TINADA Youth Action Africa in Kisumu, was standing nervously to one side. A supervisor for the programme, Ndemo..."
"The goal is to train 18-22-year-olds to provide counselling that enhances students' resilience and problem-solving skills..."
"According to the World Health Organization, in 2022, Africa had fewer than 2 mental-health workers per 100,000 people..."
"Lay providers can help to fill the gap, treating common mental-health conditions with comparable and sometimes better outcomes than professionals."
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