Dr. Dixon Chibanda - The Friendship Bench - The Power Of Our Story

Guest: Dr. Dixon Chibanda - Facilitator: Sara Correll The Friendship Bench program is a Zimbabwean community-based mental health intervention where trained community health workers (known as "grandmothers") sit on wooden park "Friendship Benches" set up at primary health care clinics or safe community spaces and provide structured problem-solving talk therapy to community members who come looking for mental health support or are referred by nurses or other community members. The program was founded by Dixon Chibanda in 2006, and was developed over a 20-year period of community-based research to bridge the mental health treatment gap. Friendship Bench offers what has been seen as an effective, simple, cost-effective option to provide evidence-based mental health care in under-resourced settings. The Friendship Bench: https://www.friendshipbenchzimbabwe.org/ How you can reach us at The Power Of Our Story: https://www.thepowerofourstory.com/   / the-power-of-our-story   [email protected]