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Eco-Friendly Holi Colors: Hospital Based ‘Income Generation Activity’ for Persons with Mental Health Challenges at a Quaternary Mental Health Care Facility in India

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Persons with mental health challenges have a felt need to earn an income but are constrained by opportunities. A hospital based income generation activity for making ‘Eco-friendly Holi colors’ was conceptualized with inter-sectoral collaboration to create opportunities for persons with mental health challenges, involve them as ‘stakeholders’ and distribute profits among them. Holi colors were chosen due to the novelty of product, ease of production and good profit margin. In this paper, we describe the need, process, experience, facilitators, challenges and key learnings in the selected income generation activity.

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Acknowledgements

(1) Ms. Lakshmamma—Contract staff who brings flowers every day. (2) Late Mr. Appa Saheb Badage—Tailoring section instructor, PRS, NIMHANS. (3) Craftizen foundation. (4) Accenture India—funding Craftizen foundation for livelihood programs for persons with disabilities. (5) Richmond Fellowship Society (I), Bangalore branch. (6) Department of Mental Health Education, NIMHANS. (7) Department of Bio-Medical Engineering, NIMHANS. (8) Project section, NIMHANS. (9) Accounts section, NIMHANS.

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  1. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, 560029, India

    Amrita Roy, Thanapal Sivakumar, Deepak Jayarajan, N B Maithreyi & Jagadisha Thirthalli

  2. Craftizen Foundation, Bangalore, India

    Mayura Balasubramanian

  3. Richmond Fellowship Society (I), Bangalore branch, Bangalore, India

    Seshadri Kalyanasundaram

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Roy, A., Sivakumar, T., Jayarajan, D. et al. Eco-Friendly Holi Colors: Hospital Based ‘Income Generation Activity’ for Persons with Mental Health Challenges at a Quaternary Mental Health Care Facility in India. J. Psychosoc. Rehabil. Ment. Health 6, 217–225 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40737-019-00138-8

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