AVAHAN

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About AVAHAN:

• AVAHAN is the audio-visual unit of the Institute for Psychological Health (IPH) based in Thane.
• The channel focuses on promoting mental health awareness and well-being.

Content Highlights:

• Mental Health Awareness
• Expert Discussions
• Maintaining physical and mental health.
• Interviews with Eminent Personalities:
• Educational and Self-Help Content
• Talk shows, lecture series, and storytelling formats tailored to inspire and educate viewers
• Programs designed to connect with the audience on relevant social and personal issues

Special feature of AVAHAN is that all the content is completely produced in-house. From concept, script, shooting, post-production, to designing promotional material, everything is done at IPH. So far, we have created videos on our YouTube channel, covering topics such as Parenting, Anger Management, inspiring interviews with eminent personalities, talk shows, lecture series, and more.

Current status:

• We have an enthusiastic creative team with a formidable back up of socially sensitive metal health professionals from the IPH team.
• We have our own in house editing as well as sound mixing facilities & have our own dubbing- subtitling unit.
• We also have lights & other equipment to shoot community/studio programs.

OUR WORK:

‘Prakashdoot’ - Prakashdoot is a unique kit of psycho-educational software aiming at sensitizing the society about two prominent challenges in the field of mental health namely ‘Depression and Addiction’. The audio as well as audiovisual presentations in this kit cover different aspects of the challenges in lucid Hindi and Marathi languages. The kit is aimed at workers and professionals in the field of community mental health to be used to sensitize their target populations prepared by a team of professionals experienced in the field of mental health as well as creative use of media. This kit will prove valuable to any individual or group committed to create mental health awareness.

This kit is not only used in Maharashtra to day but also Chhattisgadh, Dang district of coastal Gujrat & in coastal areas of Karnataka by health workers. Avahan has created 2 documentary short films for Muktangan deaddiction center in Pune.

Roj nava divas - Muktangan deaddiction Center in Pune completed 25 years in the year 2011. On this occasion Avahan made a documentary on their work for de-addiction for so many years. It highlighted the challenges they faced in the earlier days and how they managed to overcome all the obstacles and their journey so far. This film illustrates the evolution of the center as well as the ethos behind the mission.

Navi Pehchan - This was another project done for Muktangan. It was basically an awareness campaign to address the issue of addiction in Punjab. It shows the real picture of how several families and their extended families are affected in several areas of life due to the large scale addiction…specifically drug addiction. A renowned pharmaceutical company Sanofi commissioned Avahan to make a promotional film on Bipolar disorder. This project was successfully completed.

Faith Beyond Fear - We made a film on Shraddha Rehabilitation Center located at Karjat. Dr. Bharat Vatwani the founder of this center won Magsaysay award recently. His immense work in the field of mental health impressed us and we decided to spread the word using this as a medium for the same. Shraddha Rehabilitation Center works for the mentally ill who are homeless and wander on streets for their living.