Careif recently worked in partnership with a local team in Colombo to help fill a particular gap in the mental health support offered to people in Sri Lanka. 

Professor Rachel Tribe, a Careif Trustee, was an invited speaker at the Asian CBT conference held in New Delhi earlier this year. She presented a workshop on ‘Working in mental health across language and culture’, which was very well received.

Careif is extremely pleased to announce that Professor Afzal Javed is joining the charity as our latest trustee. Professor Javed described his role at Careif as an “exciting and rewarding position for supporting mental health”.

Careif has joined over 60 organisations in supporting the Centre for Mental Health’s Manifesto for a Mentally Heathier Nation. The manifesto calls on all political parties to commit to a ten-year, cross-government plan for mental health.

Today is Time To Talk Day. It’s important to talk about mental health issues and to listen to others. The more open we are about our mental health, the better life is for everyone.

To mark this day we are sharing a video message from our Trustee Dr Valsraj.

Professor Rachel Tribe, a Careif Trustee, was in Kenya recently and was delighted to run a life skills training course for residents of Rafiki Foster Care.

Professor Rachel Tribe, a trustee of Careif, recently gave a presentation at Teesside University as part of a workshop with other organisations on working with interpreters in mental health.

Careif is partnering with other organisations to offer a special free training workshop on 28 November for both psychologists and interpreters on working within the mental health field.

We are delighted that Careif was prominently featured at the recent World Psychiatric Association Congress. Our colleagues from the International Institute for Geopsychiatry presented two pioneering, and state-of-the-art, symposiums on ‘geopsychiatry’.

An online workshop was held on the topic of responding to crises and traumatic events for interns working at Samutthana, a mental health resource centre based in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Careif trustee, Professor Rachel Tribe, was one of two speakers at another training event which focused on working with interpreters in mental health.

Professor Rachel Tribe, a trustee of Careif, recently gave a presentation at Newcastle University on working with interpreters in mental health.

Members of the Careif Board and their associates were present at the launch of a new book, Conversations about the NHS, by our patron Professor Dinesh Bhugra.

A highly successful joint training on psychologists working with interpreters in mental health was held in London on 31 May. The event was led by Careif trustee Professor Rachel Tribe and Phil Muriel a board member of the National Register of Public Service interpreters (NRPSI) and was supported by Careif associate Emily O’Shea.

Dr Jed Boardman (Vice chair of Careif) gave a very well-received talk on Social Exclusion and Mental Health to the Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology students at the University of East London.

Professor Kam Bhui and Dr Isabelle Butcher from the ATTUNE project have recently published a comment piece on Adverse Childhood Events in the Lancet Psychiatry.

Careif trustee Dr Valsraj, delivered the Professor Dr D M Vasudevan Endowment oration in Kerala, South India on 4 March 2023.

We at Careif are delighted to be relaunching our website with a new format and design which details some of the work that we have conducted over many years as well as showcasing the many exciting and important projects we are currently working on.