Capacity Building

RAHI’s capacity building work aims at equipping social workers and mental health professionals with skills in the area of incest/CSA that will help them be more effective in their work with women and children.

NGOs
An important segment of RAHI’s activities has been its training work with NGOs and mental health professionals over the last 10 years, using its own skills as well as those of international experts. With NGOs, so far our work has focused on helping them to have an in-depth understanding of the issue and draw links between incest/CSA and the impact such violence has on a woman’s sexual reproductive, mental and emotional health. We reach out to both grass root and urban NGOs in India.

Incest Course
This is offered to counselling students, practicing psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors and social workers in Delhi and other cities. This is a 1-3 day course entitled ‘Incest/Child Sexual Abuse: Occurrence, Impact & Treatment’. It provides a theoretical framework for the understanding of incest/CSA and its traumagenic factors and presents different perspectives on its immediate and long-term effects. It includes the latest research on the subject and case studies of clients that come to RAHI as well as introduces possible treatment approaches.