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DESCRIPTION:Attendance: https://event.voiceboxer.com/event/jvokhb/login\n\n
 Speaker: Janice Cooper\, Ph.D.\, MPA\, Senior Project Advisor Global Menta
 l Health\, The Carter Center\n\nModerator: Mónica Ruiz-Casares\, Associate
  Professor\, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry\, ɬÀï·¬ Univ
 ersity\n\nAbstract: Liberia’s history of civil wars\, weak health care sys
 tem and experiences with Ebola VirusDisease (EVD) outbreaks created a perf
 ect maelstrom for a mental health emergency. During the EVD outbreak\, tra
 ined mental health clinicians and psychosocial workers formed the backbone
  of the mental health and psychological response. Immediately after the ou
 tbreak\, The Carter Center (TCC) Liberia Mental Health Program with fundin
 g from the World Bank sought to improve the health system’s ability to add
 ress mental health. Using WHO’s Building Back Better framework and princip
 les and practices in the MHPSS in EVD Outbreaks: A Guide for Program Plann
 ers\, TCC and the Ministry of Health\, built up mental health services and
  supports in communities highly impacted by EVD. They developed a service 
 delivery and anti-stigma program to improve outcomes for children\, youth 
 and families. The presentation outlines how key mental health service and 
 policy actors used the momentum of a post-public health disaster setting t
 o:\n\n\n	Improve mental health outcomes for Liberians\n	Develop and enhance 
 community-based services\n	Increase service capacity\n	reduce stigma and imp
 rove human rights for persons with lived mental health experience. Next st
 eps are outlined. Policy\, ethical and political considerations in mental 
 health system building are explore\n\n\n \n
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR Building Back Better: Leveraging Post-Conflict and Disaster
  Situations to Develop and Scale Public Mental Health in Liberia
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