CAMH is a community resource center in mental health. We offer a library, documentation service and an oral history archive. CAMH addresses the information needs of non-medical healers, therapists, community workers, users of mental health services, lawyers, activists, as well as researchers and students. Doctors interested in alternative streams of thinking in mental health, and desiring to find
ways of integrating the user voices in their program activities may also find our resource center useful. We are involved in serious social science research linking gender, culture, oppression, deprivation and mental health. The objectives of the Center are to:
- Build self advocacy movements in India and the Asia Pacific region in the context of the UNCRPD
- Provide a rights-based language for mental health in India
- Create an informed political discourse on Citizenship, Development, and Mental Health
- Address the information gaps and needs of communities on mental health and well being
- Build community based and holistic methods of offering support, and / or healing from (mental) health problems
The CAMH strives, through its work, to research and communicate the main message that mental health and overall well being is social and environmental. It has a history of human rights activism in mental health. The CAMH also provides a range of comprehensive community services.
