WHAT WE DO AT BALM FOR THE BRUISED FOUNDATION

We strive to achieve the vision of promoting mental health and reducing drug demand in Africa, through Evidence-Based Prevention Strategies, Identify, treat and rehabilitate persons with problematic or drug dependency.

Ensure provision of psychological services such as:

• Sensitization on Mental Health and Advocacy
• Psychotherapy for people with all sorts of psychological problems like
• Depression (Depressive Disorder)
• Anxiety Disorder
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Mania
• Bipolar Disorder
• Personality Disorder
• Low self-worth/esteem
• Trauma from Rape
• Suicidal thoughts
• Sleeplessness (Insomnia)
• Learning Disability
• Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) etc

 

We provide Psychological assessment using different forms of psychological tests for:

• Personality assessment
• Diagnosis
• Vocational choices assistance
• Recruitment and placement
• Promotion
• Selection etc

 

Counseling services for people with:

• Marital challenges
• Broken/failed relationships
• Victims of Gender-Based Violence
• Serious family and occupational stress
• Domestic violence
• Emotionally burdened
• Exam failures
• Business failures
• Loss of job
• Loss of interest in life/ Hopelessness
• Inability to take decisions/ indecisiveness
• Looking for shoulders to lean on

 

Drug Demand Reduction:

Treatment/rehabilitation (indoor and outdoor services) for people with:

• Problematic/harmful use of Alcohol
• Dependent on all kinds of substances/drugs (Cocaine, Marijuana, tramadol, Methamphetamine, Codeine, SK, Cracks, etc)
• Sensitization and awareness creation on the dangers of drug abuse

 

Consultancy Services:

• We offer expert testimony for client standing for court trial, police and other security agencies’ interrogation in the determination of his/her sanity level
• We help institutions or organizations in the recruitment, selection, placement, and promotion of their staff.
• We provide psychological support for firms/institutions in the event of a decline in productivity or violation of the professional code of conduct arising from psychological distress, burnout, or work overload.
• We assist tertiary institutions with vocational choices for their students
• We also help electoral bodies ascertain the sanity level of legibility of any candidate standing for an election

 

Advocacy Programmes:

Advocate the acceptance, integration, and inclusion of reformed persons with Substance Use Disorder and their family members in various communities through rallies and in-person visits to stakeholders