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Integrating Mental Health Care in General Health Care
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World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation Philippines (WAPR)

WAPR is a non-profit organization with multi-disciplinary representation including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, public administration, media, and MH practitioners.

WAPR is a professional organization of, for, and by mental health care practitioners and other individuals who support the need to reach the unreached with mental and social concerns.

We are one of 81 member countries of the Global World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation and participate in the various committees of this global organization. We have led the pursuit of the objectives of this when the WAPR Phil Founding President held various leadership roles until she was elected President of the WAPR Global from 2009 to 2012.

~ Upcoming Event ~

23rd Annual Conference:

Is the Philippine Mental Health Law ONLY an act?

25-26 November 2022, via Zoom (invitations to be sent by WAPR Partner, Otsuka). Those interested may email WAPR so that they could get the link.

Our Vision

Wellness, resilience, and wholeness for every Filipino.

Our Mission

Reach the unreached Filipinos who are vulnerable to mental ill health or have mental health concerns, to provide psychosocial care to individuals and families suffering from mental and behavioral disorders due to psychosocial stress, including exposure to physical and natural disasters.

WAPR Core Values

We uphold the following beliefs and values:

  • Mental health is integral to the individual’s state of health and covers physical, mental, and spiritual well-being
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WAPR Programs

WAPR seeks to ensure that mental health services are humane, rights-based, available, accessible, sustained, comprehensive and empowering.

It gears its programs and advocacies toward the establishment of community mental health services, especially their integration in the general health care delivery system at the primary level of health care.

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National Mental Health Research Agenda (NHMRA)

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The Concept of Mental Health in the Philippines

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Our Partners

Academy of Hope, One Algon Place Foundation
Christen Blinden Mission
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Department of Health Disease Prevention and Control Bureau
Human Rights Advocacy Network for MH (HUMAN)
National Center for Mental Health – logo in the Internet
Philippine Council for Health Research and Development
UP Manila National Telehealth Center
UP PGH Dept of Psychiatry
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WAPR Milestones

2018-2019
Capacity Building

Led and participated the Reframing of Mental Health and in the formulation of the Conceptual Framework for Mental Health (under the Philippine Mental Health Law of 2018), in collaboration with member NGOs of HUMAN in 2020-2021

Training modules developed and uploaded in the DOH Academy for online learning (2022).

Developed the Framework for Community based Mental Health Services with support from DOH and WHO (2021)

Developing A Culture of Research webinar series organized by the PCMH Committee on Research, WAPR is a member of this committee and co-organized the webinar series.

Implemented a capacity building program on Community-based Mental Health Services in Quezon, Samar, Iloilo, in collaboration with the Christen Blinden Foundation (2018-2019).

2018 attended the workshop middle and low income countries on the Global Challenges and Opportunities in Mental Health in the Sustainable Development Goals Era.

2019 attended and served as member of the Steering Committee in the Global Conference on Social Determinants on Mental Health organized by the London Academy for Medical Sciences.

2018-2019
2019-2022
Advocacy and Networking

Mental Health Hour, Bago ang Lahat, Mamayan Muna, anchored by WAPR Board Member Cora de Leon and Mary Ann Mendoza and co- anchor Sonia Roco (2022)

Convened and organized the network of non-government organizations on mental health (2020), Human rights based Mental Advocacy Network (HuMAN). Among the members are: Medical Action Group, #MentalHealthPH, PGCA, PMHA, WAPR/ Alliance of Filipino Families,Y4MH, ADAP. Mga GAWA, PNA

Attended the Global Conference on Social Determinants of Mental Health organized by the UK Academy of Social Sciences, London, UK (2019)

Participated in the DOH-initiated Strategic Planning Workshop for the Implementation of Philippine Mental Health Law (2019)

Member of the PCMH Committee on Capacity building Member of the PCMH Committee on Research Member of the PCMH Committee on the Development of the Mental Health Information System

2019-2022
2019-2022
Research and Studies

Developing the Concept for a Mental Health Hub for Families of Victims of Extrajudicial Killings, in collaboration with the Commission on Human Rights (2018)

Defining the Mental Health Research Priorities in the Philippines (2019)

Understanding the Social Determinants of Mental Health (2022)

Toward the Development of the Mental Health Information System (2022, in progress)

Completed a workplace based survey on the need for mental health programs and services (2022)

Participated in the Stakeholder Consultation of the WHO Special Initiative on Mental Health (2020)

2019-2022
2020-2021
Direct Assistance

Care Farming to assist individuals recovering from mental disorders to reintegrate into their communities and be self- sufficient and sustain their recovery

Developed and forged collaboration with the UP College of Medicine on the promotion of Telepsychiatry (2021, in progress)

Conducted webinar on Mental Health, in collaboration with the Philippine Acupuncture Society, 2020

Conducted training/debriefing for DSWD-NCR social workers to address burnout (done on request from DSWD)

Skills and Livelihood Training programs to assist urban poor residents, carried out in collaboration with another NGO called Mga Gawa, headed by a WAPR Board Member, Dr. Tan Cho Chiong

2020-2021
2020-2021
Annual Conferences

2021: Role of NGOs in Mental Health

2020: Partnership for Resilience Building

2019: Breakthroughs in Mental Health and Wellbeing

2018: Depression and Self-harm

2017: Substance abuse

2020-2021

WAPR has sustained the conduct of a National Conference on Psychosocial Rehabilitation since its organization to the present. Alongside the annual conference, WAPR has organized the Mini-Olympics for mental health directed at gathering recovered patients in a day of sports and other recreational activity and promote anti-stigma program.