From awareness to healing, here is how SMI is changing maternal mental health in Sierra Leone.
We break stigma through radio shows, market outreaches, school talks and social media, in English and Krio. We teach communities that postpartum depression is real, common and treatable.
Free, confidential groups for mothers. In person in Freetown and on WhatsApp nationwide. Share your story, learn coping tools, and find out you are not alone.
Every first Saturday, Freetown Community Centre.
We train midwives, community health officers and nurses to screen for postpartum depression during antenatal and postnatal visits, and we give clinics the tools to refer mothers to support early.
Screening covers pregnant women and mothers in the first twelve months after delivery.
We work with government and partners to include maternal mental health in national health policy, and we amplify mothers' voices so decision makers listen.
Tell us about your facility and we will get back to you about scheduling a screening training session.
A half day session covering what postpartum depression is, how to screen for it during routine antenatal and postnatal visits, how to talk to a mother about it, and how to refer her to support.
[VERIFY: confirm whether training is free, subsidised or charged, and whether SMI covers travel. Do not publish this page until this is answered, because clinics will plan budgets around it.]
