Introduction
Parivartan an NGO was formed to address the Mental Health Issues and Vision Improvement Courses in Underprivileged children enabling the poor children to lead a normal life. “Transition to Transformation” is the Motto of Parivartan.
Effects of poverty on children
The World Health Organization has declared poverty the single largest determinant of health for both adults and children. Children affected by poverty have higher rates of infant mortality, low birth weight, childhood hospitalizations, asthma, obesity, and functional health impairments. Poverty in early childhood is also associated with increased morbidity and decreased lifespan in adulthood, an association that persists irrespective of the social status one acquires as an adult. A large and growing body of research, including studies in Canada, the US, and the UK, demonstrates that children living in poverty are significantly more likely to have psychiatric conditions and inferior mental health when compared with peers from families with higher socioeconomic status. This relationship holds across developmental periods, and remains when operationalizing poverty through income, parental employment, and neighborhood income. Children from families living in poverty are 3 times more likely, on average, to suffer from psychiatric conditions, including both externalizing disorders such as ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), and conduct disorder, and internalizing disorders such as depression, anxiety, and poor coping skills.
Office Address
The office of the Trust is situated at #624, Arpana, 37th Main, Near Rajeshwari Temple, Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Bangalore South, Bangalore, Karnataka – 560098. INDIA.
Board of Trustees
President : Mr. D. A. Arvind [Counsellor and Psychotherapist]
Vice President : Ms. K. R. Manjula [Child Psychologist and Reiki Master]
Secretary : Mr. Vishnu Mehra [Mentor and Entrepreneur]
Joint Secretary : Ms. Swathi Singh [Specialization in Nutrition, Yoga and Life Skills]
Treasurer : Mr. C. S. Sreenivas [Chartered Accountant and Philanthropist]
Objective
1. Medical
- To identify mental health issues in young children and addressing them with a professional approach.
- Screening young children for any eyesight problems, treating them and providing glasses if necessary.
- To provide medical and non-medical assistance and relief including Counseling, Diagnostic and Consulting Services with a special focus on children.
- To organize Seminars, Workshops, Training for promoting self-advocacy in mental health.
- To extend peer support for men, women and children with mental health issues with a special focus on children.
- Creating awareness and promoting a range of innovative, creative, alternative approaches to mental health such as Art Therapy, Resilience and Recovery Circles, Hypnotherapy, Nutritional Healing, Music Therapy, Dance Therapy, Medication for Mental Health, Bibliotherapy, Writing as Therapy, Podcasts, Gardening for Mental Health, Spirituality etc. amongst general public.
- Publishing of books / stories written for the cause of Mental Health.
- To establish support and run recovery centers in Mental Health and grant aid or other financial assistance to schools, colleges, libraries, reading rooms, universities, laboratories, research and other development and advancement of education and diffusion of knowledge amongst general public including recovery based, user survivor based, peer support based and advocacy based perspectives of Mental Health.
2. Education
- To establish, maintain and run studentships, scholarships and render other aid to girl students including supply of books, stipends, medals and other incentives.
- To establish, maintain, develop and donate for the establishment, maintenance and development of boarding houses or hostels for students to establish and maintain libraries and reading rooms.
- To organize Seminars, Workshops, Training for promoting Education.
3. Relief to the Poor
- To assist and provide for the poor by constructing community halls, rest rooms etc. to conduct feeding for the poor.
- To provide relief in times of “Natural Calamities” like earthquake, floods, contagious diseases by organizing relief camps etc.
4. General
- To create avenues / channels to provide self-employment opportunities for Women.
- To establish and develop recovery centers and organizations for the psychosocially challenged and other people from the cross disability sector, children, women and men and to provide them health, education, food, clothing or other aid.
- To establish, maintain or grant aid to recovery homes for the aged, orphanages or other establishments for the relief and help to the poor, needy and destitute women, orphans, widows and aged women.
- To establish, develop, maintain and grant aid in cash or kind to clinical laboratories, hospitals, medical schools, medical colleges, nursing institutions, dispensaries, maternity homes, child welfare centers, centers for persons with disability and / or such other similar charitable institutions in India for the benefit and use of the public.
- To grant aid or render assistance to other public charitable trust or recovery based organizations or NGOs.