Events
Our events range from small workshops, capacity building seminars and impact events to large scale research presentations and networking meet ups. To gain exclusive access to early registration of our events, subscribe to our SAMA newsletter.
SAMA Workshops
‘Participatory Methods for Mental Health Research and Upscaling Research to Policy’ workshops
Date: Wednesday 5th June 2024
Time: 9am-5pm
Venue: Dept. of Psychiatric Social Work, NIMHANS, Bengaluru.
Cost: Free of charge
Who can participate? Students, researchers and professionals.
Registration: Mandatory. Link to the registration form: https://forms.gle/UmHLYFVwamaRhwGt5
SAMA Final Dissemination Event
Date: Monday 3rd June 2024
Time: 9am-5pm
Venue: NIMHANS, Bengaluru.
Cost: Free of charge
Policy Uptake Consultation for School Mental Health
Date: Friday 28th July, 2023
Time: 10:00am - 3:15pm IST
Venue: NIMHANS (in person)
Cost: Free of charge
The role of the school environment on young people's mental health: Insights from research and practice
Date: Wednesday 15th July 2022
Time: 9:30am-11:00am BST / 2:00pm-3:30pm IST
Venue: Online
Cost: Free of charge
What do young people want us to understand about their mental health and school? Young people take the platform
Date: Wednesday 15th June 2022
Time: 10:00am-11:30am BST / 2:30pm-4:00pm IST
Venue: Online
Cost: Free of charge
Implementing best practice – how can we really help?
Date: Tuesday 16th November 2021
Time: 09:30am-11:00pm GMT / 3:00pm-4:30pm IST
Venue: Online
Cost: Free of charge
Project SAMA : Launch Event
Date: Wed 29th September
Time: 2:00pm-4:30pm IST / 9:30am-12:00pm BST
Venue: Online
Cost: Free of charge
Conferences SAMA has presented at:
IACAPAP 2022 Dubai
Title: Child and adolescent mental health: Shaping the future. Dubai (5/12/22- 9/12/22)
Presentation: A symposium on Co-Producing School Based Interventions for Prevention of Adolescent Anxiety and Depression- A Whole-school Approach.
Tumkur University, India.
Title: Social Work in Education (23/2/23- 25/2/23)
Presentation: A symposium on SAMA interventions.
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bengaluru.
Title: Spaces that children occupy: The real, the virtual & the difficult...Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (16/10/23- 18/10/23)
Presentation: A symposium on Participatory Methods for Mental Health Research with Adolescents.
The Karolinska Institute and UNICEF
Title: Bold ideas for brighter futures, Stockholm.
Presentations: (1) Safeguarding Adolescent Mental Health in India: community co-production and feasibility testing of an evidence-based of a whole school mental health programme for adolescent anxiety and depression, targeting Indian adolescents, teachers, parents and school climate and (2)Towards the Cultural Validation of the RCADS-47 in Karnataka, India.
Departments of Studies, Karnataka State Open University and University of Mysore and Indian Society of Professional Social Work.
Presentation: Presentation on the participatory research methods used in SAMA.
Title: New Vistas in Social Work: Navigating the changing landscape in education, research and practice. Mysuru, Karnataka, India. (16/5/24- 18/5/24)
International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
Title: The XXVII International Congress of International Association Of Cross-Cultural Psychology 2024. Bali (5/8/24- 9/8/24)
Presentation: Presentation on Development of a culturally sensitive safeguarding protocol for school mental health research in India.
Below is a summary of our research projects activities and achievements.
Dec 2022
Parent Newsletter
The first of Project SAMAs parent newsletter is now available.
July 2022
SAMA Professional Network Event
If you missed our SAMA Professional Network event “The role of the school environment on young people’s mental health: Insights from research and practice”, you can read the post event report here that provides a summary of the event.
June 2022
SAMA Professional Network Event
If you missed our SAMA Professional Network event “what do young people want us to understand about their mental health and school? - Young people take the platform”, you can read the post event report here that provides a summary of the event.
September 2021
Project SAMA Launch Event
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