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Countering youth and urban violence with a community engagement cultural therapy program in Kingston, Jamaica

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Start Date: 30/09/2013- End Date: 31/10/2015


Project Lead(s): Frederick W. Hickling, Geoffrey Walcott

Jamaica has the world’s third highest homicide rate (53 per 100,000), with Kingston’s inner-city communities socially isolated by violence and gangs. In collaboration with a government-run Community Mental Health (CMH) program in two inner-city communities, this project will target high-risk Grade 3 students, and the wider youth and adult populations with a Community Engagement Cultural Therapy (CECT) program. The effort involves group discussion of painful issues and uses drama, song and dance to translate and help express concerns. The community will be guided through the creation of goals for social and financial development. Objectives include reducing child conduct disorders, as well as reducing domestic and interpersonal violence among youths and adults, stimulating youth employment and reducing poverty.

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    Program

    Global Mental Health

    Institution

    University of the West Indies

    Institution Country

    Jamaica

    Implementation Country

    Jamaica

    Implementation Region

    Latin America and Caribbean

    Priority

    Behavioural disorders, Economic, Mental Neurological and Substance Use Disorders, Non-communicable Diseases, Other MNS, Social Justice

    Platform

    Behaviour Change Communication, Community Health Worker Training, Information and Communications Technology

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