Helping Children
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our Service Projects
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service projects
The MIND Center
The current focus of our service center is Intellectual and Neurodevelopmental disorders in children. In poor countries, children with brain disorders such as intellectual disability and autism are neglected because of the stigma attached to such disorders, a lack of awareness in families, and a dearth of specialist facilities. HDRF has established the Mandra Intellectual and Neurodevelopmental Disability Center or the MIND Center at Union Council Mandra in District Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
The MIND Center will work to organize, empower, and train family members to enable them to work together and alongside primary health care specialists and voluntary agencies to improve the lives of children with brain disorders. The MIND Center will set up this network in Mandra, and later replicate it in other districts of Pakistan using a ‘Franchise Model’. HDRF has partnered with Institute of Psychiatry, Rawalpindi, to develop this service.
The Health Applications of Technology team (HAT-team), based at the Human Development Research Foundation (HDRF), is a specialist technical team comprising software developers, graphic designers, IT Data/Network/support specialists, global mental health experts and researchers who work together to develop evidence-based, integrated innovative models of service delivery-coupled with robust evaluation-to bridge the treatment gap for mental disorders in low-resource settings.
Our expertise includes developing smart phone applications and web-based solutions. We specialize in adapting graphics, web and smart phone technologies to deliver interactive training, supervision, assessments and delivery of mental health interventions in low-resource settings.
HAT team works with the team of experienced researchers at HDRF, as well as with national and international mental health specialists. Through these interactions, we have become experienced in matching the needs of intervention developers, those using the technology, and the demand for innovative yet simple and affordable technological solutions that are culturally appropriate.
service projects
Health Applications of Technology (HAT)
our Research Projects
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Maternal Health
- Maternal Depression and Infant Health and Nutrition – Epidemiology
- The Thinking Healthy Programme – Intervention
- Maternal Depression and Breastfeeding – Epidemiology
- Improving maternal perceptions related to breastfeeding – Intervention
- Improving behaviours related to exclusive breastfeeding – Intervention
- South Asian Hub for Advocacy, Research and Education on Mental Health – Intervention
Child Health
- The Learning Through Play Project – Intervention
- Community Management of Intellectual Disability – Epidemiology and needs assessment
- A Collaborative Research Programme for Promotion of Early Childhood Development and Psychosocial Well-Being of Pakistani Children – Capacity Building
- Perinatal Depression Treatment and Child Development: A follow-up of the Thinking Healthy Programme – Intervention
- Sustainable Programme Incorporating Nutrition & Games (SPRING) – Intervention
- Family Networks to improve outcomes in children with developmental disorders: The FaNs for Kids Project
Health Services
- Work-Related Stress in Community Health Workers
- Preference of Birthing Place
- Maternal Depression and Infant Health and Nutrition
- Community Management of Mental Retardation
Public Mental Health
- Humanitarian Mental Health
