The Department of Psychiatric Social Work at NIMHANS in collaboration with the Centre for Well Being at the institute held the second Well Being volunteer conference at its premises on Saturday.
The conference was attended by more than 100 Well Being volunteers from across the Southern States. To bring together a group of volunteers and train them to provide curative, preventive, and promotive mental health services in the community, NIMHANS initiated the Well Being Volunteers (WBV) programme in 2016. The first conference was held last year.
Additional professor, Psychiatric Social Work, E. Aravind Raj, who is the WBV coordinator at NIMHANS, said overall 290 members have been enrolled in the programme in eight batches since inception.
