During <\/span>International Women’s Day week, Union Minister for Women and Child Development<\/span> has launched <\/span>\u201cStree Manoraksha project\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n Launched by: <\/b>National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, with support and funding from the Ministry of Women and Child Development.<\/span><\/p>\n Aim:<\/b> To provide training and supervision in psychosocial and mental health care for staff and counsellors of all <\/span>One Stop Centres (OSCs)<\/span><\/a> across the country to support women facing various forms of gender-based violence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n According to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) 2019-2021, one in three married women has experienced Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). However, around 9 in 10 women have never sought help when they faced violence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This has made women vulnerable to experiencing debilitating consequences on their mental and physical health. Moreover, the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the rate of gender-based violence manifold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Therefore, mental health support is highly imperative and needs to be tailored to the individual woman and her unique needs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article \u201cUnion Minister for Women & Child Development launches Stree Manoraksha Project ” <\/b>published in PIB <\/b>on 3rd March 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? During International Women’s Day week, Union Minister for Women and Child Development has launched \u201cStree Manoraksha project\u201d. What is the Stree Manoraksha Project? Launched by: National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, with support and funding from the Ministry of Women and Child Development. Aim: To provide training and… Continue reading Union Minister for Women & Child Development launches \u201cStree Manoraksha Project\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-171953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the Stree Manoraksha Project?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Why was this project initiated?<\/b><\/h5>\n