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Apply NowMumbai, October 08, 2021: Metra Trust today announced the launch of India’s first Centre for Trauma Studies and Innovation (CTSI), in association with Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health (BALM).
The initiative, launched ahead of World Mental Health Day, aims to address the need to look at mental health from a trauma lens, besides also creating awareness about mental wellbeing. Through this initiative, the Centre for Trauma will create curriculums and facilitate trauma-related courses for healthcare professionals at both urban and grassroot levels.
Despite trauma being a significant public health concern, leading to ill-health and mortality, there is a dearth of designated units to deal with issues related to it. The existing systems for trauma care are not only basic but are also largely restricted to urban and select semi-urban areas, without integration with regional or state-wide systems. Rural and remote locations in the hinterland lack facilities for prompt life-saving treatment and safe transfer of those affected to better-equipped facilities.
The Centre for Trauma Studies and Innovation is established to bridge this critical gap, promote credible courses that study key areas of trauma care and to deliver effective, accessible and affordable healthcare services for all. The Centre for Trauma Studies and Innovation will be open to healthcare professionals from various fields. The focus is on building capacity at a grassroot level.
Metra Trust and BALM have been building awareness about mental health through social media campaigns, newsletters and published articles.
Rachana Iyer, Head – Corporate Social Responsibility, Metra Trust, said, “The gap in access to mental healthcare is more pronounced now than ever as people from all walks of life experience trauma caused by illness, isolation, loss of a loved one, job loss and such other incidents triggered by the pandemic.
Trauma care systems in India are at a nascent stage and constrained by lack and financial and infrastructure support. At Metra Trust, we are on a mission to bridge these gaps so that the underserved and excluded have better access to mental healthcare. The launch of the Centre for Trauma strengthens our efforts by adding enhancing awareness about the element trauma care in mental health.”
Metra Trust and BALM have been partners since 2016 and have strongly supported capacity building of human resources in mental health through their fellowship program. Another unique initiative that this partnership has provided is the GoTN - Grief and bereavement counselling helpline program in partnership with the National Health Mission, Government of Tamil Nadu. The helpline service that was launched in May 2021, has already onboarded 80 volunteers who have made more than 5,000 calls. The helpline services have successfully reached out to almost 6,000 members of the affected families, provided ongoing counseling sessions to 486 people, and conducted 38 debrief sessions with volunteers across the country.
Madhuri Menon, Dean at BALM said “At BALM, our approach is rooted in research and evidence-based techniques, and our goal is to build an empathetic and resilient society. Trauma is not necessarily one big event, but small, continuous events, whether being subjected to them, or witnessing them regularly- for instance domestic violence- can have major detrimental effects on mental health. Therefore, we believe that mental health services can truly be enhanced with trauma-informed care making practitioners more empathetic and catering to clients from vulnerable groups or those experiencing chronic trauma. Based on our strong partnership with Metra Trust, we aim to create a number of initiatives to address this problem holistically. Furthermore, we are on a mission to create awareness amongst a larger audience about trauma care by providing informed courses and knowledge material that helps in a deeper understanding of the problem. Lastly, we hope that the initiatives we have carried out in the mental health space will contribute to advocacy and policy, making mental health services more inclusive and equitable to all.”
As an effort towards building awareness around the cause, Banyan Academy for Leadership in Mental Health (BALM) in partnership with Metra Trust, will be hosting a webinar on World Mental Health Day on October 10. The webinar will include a group of diverse panelists including Dr. A Lakshmi Ravikanth,
Co-Dean, BALM; Sadaf Vidha, Psychotherapist and Co-Founder Guftagu Therapy; Nandhini, peer leader at Banyan and Rachana Iyer, Head - Corporate Social Responsibility, Metra Trust.
The panel will be moderated by veteran journalist Ranjitha Gunasekaran, Assistant Resident Editor of Tamil Nadu, The New Indian Express. Each speaker will bring their unique perspectives contributing to an open dialogue on this topic specific to the Indian context. Join the conversation on October 10th between 3:30 pm to 4:00 pm.
About Metra Trust
Created in 2018 by the merger of renowned infrastructure financing institution Metra TrustLtd. and leading technology NBFC, Capital First, Metra Trust, with a balance sheet of over Rs. 1,68,000 crore, has provided over 30 million loans in its combined history and serves customers in over 60,000 villages cities
and towns across the length and breadth of the country. Metra Trust’s vision is to serve an aspiring India, backed by human values and technology and to be a force for social good. The Bank’s mission is to touch millions of Indians in a positive manner.
In a short time, the Bank has expanded to 601 branches, 161 asset service centres, 609 ATMs and 94 recyclers and 623 rural business correspondent centres across the country, a next-generation net and mobile banking platform and 24/7 Customer Care services, and is incrementally growing digitally. Metra Trust is committed to bring high-quality banking at affordable rates to India. The Bank also offers technology-enabled corporate banking solutions.