Experience

John Snow Health Zambia

• Zambia
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Mental health and pyscho social support connector

  • May 2023 - Present

  -Manage the day-to-day implementation of Mental Health and psychosocial support to Adolescent Girls and Young Women. -screen Agyw for mental health illnesses such as depression,anxiety and substance abuse using the PHQ9,the GAD7 and the Cage aid questionaire respectively -Provide technical support to Mentors and ensure that they implement Mental Health interventions and psychosocial support services to Adolescents Girls and Young Women (AGYW). -Work with Mentors in identifying and supporting the AGYW who need mental support through psychosocial counseling. -Provide support to up to five DREAMS Mentors who will be running Safe Spaces within specific sites -Support DREAMS Mentors and ensures that they are running quality, Safe Spaces and meeting the needs of the AGYW Participate in the weekly and monthly reporting meetings at the DREAMS Centre -Work closely with the DREAMS Site Coordinator to ensure that AGYWs have a positive mindset and assertiveness against various adverse health and social outcomes. -Document mental health program key achievements, best practices, and lessons learned and share them with the DREAMS Site Coordinator. -Submit MHPSS weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual progress reports. Show less



StrongMinds

• United States
• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Mental health facilitator

  • Mar 2022 - Dec 2022

  -Identify, screen, recruit into interpersonal group therapy and treat women with depression in the communities that they reside in. -Constantly seek to identify, understand, document and report participants’ barriers to help-seeking and participation in group therapy sessions. -Following the prescribed IPTG sessions guidelines, create a safe environment for women to discuss depression, their interpersonal relations and how the depression is currently affecting their lives. -Follow–up and track participant attendance and participation and document progress to assess IPT-G efficacy. -Conduct effective referral of women using the StrongMinds Zambia referral guidelines. -Identify women who can volunteer to lead IPT groups in their communities to be trained in an adapted peer led therapy curriculum. -Ensure complete adherence to the IPT-G model – with no deviation at any point during delivery of therapy. -Educate community leaders, partners and community members on depression, its effects, the costs of inaction and benefits of treatment so that they can encourage and support women with depression to undertake and complete the course of treatment. -Actively engage stakeholders to ensure their buy-in and ownership of the StrongMinds talk therapy program. -Raise awareness and understanding of depression and mental health more broadly among community members, leaders and stakeholders. -Maintain accurate records including the collection of qualitative data (using both electronic and paper based tools) -Develop the Community’s awareness, understanding and engagement with the issues relating to depression, and mental health, in conjunction with the StrongMinds team. -Assist in planning and implementation sensitization and education campaigns to increase community awareness about issues relating to mental health, SGBV and HIV- linking them to depression -Planning and implementing community mental health awareness and education campaigns in village or town/ Show less



Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia - CIDRZ

• Zambia
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Mentor

  • Nov 2021 - Feb 2022

  -Facilitates the process of identifying geographic locations, days and times that Safe Spaces Sessions will be conducted for each respective group -Facilitates the process of forming Safe Space Groups by placing all screened AGYWs into their appropriate age groups (10-14, 15-19 and 20-24) -Provides age-appropriate services to All AGYWs +Facilitates the tailored Stepping Stones Curriculum over a period of 13 Weeks -Conducts Escorted Referrals of AGYWs to access clinical care services not available in the safe spaces and at the DREAMS Centers -Documents attendance and enrolment data and report accordingly by use of the standardized reporting tools -Works together with Connectors to Sort and File documented data according to the provided filing guidelines -Ensures all documented data is entered into DHIS2 and synchronized with the DHIS2 server weekly -Follows up AGYWs who miss two consecutive Safe Space Sessions with home visitations and conduct “make-up sessions” to ensure a continuum of mentorship -Ensures AGYWs continue to meet post-graduation to maintain their social networks and monitor them Show less



cmmb

• Non-profit Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Mentor

  • Jan 2020 - Oct 2021

  -offer mental health and psycho social support to Agyw -screen Agyw for mental health -offer psychological first Aid to Agyw who have mental health issues -Facilitates the process of identifying geographic locations, days and times that -Safe Spaces Sessions will be conducted for each respective group -Facilitates the process of forming Safe Space Groups by placing all screened AGYWs into their appropriate age groups (10-14, 15-19 and 20-24) -Provides age-appropriate services to All AGYWs Facilitates the tailored Stepping Stones Curriculum over a period of 13 Weeks -Conducts Escorted Referrals of AGYWs to access clinical care services not available in the safe spaces and at the DREAMS Centers -Documents attendance and enrolment data and report accordingly by use of the standardized reporting tools -Works together with Connectors to Sort and File documented data according to the provided filing guidelines -Ensures all documented data is entered into DHIS2 and synchronized with the DHIS2 server weekly -Follows up AGYWs who miss two consecutive Safe Space Sessions with home visitations and conduct “make-up sessions” to ensure a continuum of mentorship -Ensure AGYWs continue to meet post-graduation to maintain their social networks and monitor their application of acquired skills Show less



Pact

• United States
• International Trade and Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Mentor

  • Jan 2020 - Oct 2021



kabwata health care clinic lusaka zambia

• Lusaka, Zambia

• HIV volunteer counsellor

  • Mar 2018 - Jun 2018