Scaling Up of the Basic Needs Mental Health and Development Model Through a Social Franchise Approach

The BasicNeeds model is designed to address mental illness at a community level, providing education, training, and care and bring together a network of organizations and individuals to provide better resources for the end users. The model is designed around five core modules and aims to achieve impact in the areas of capacity building, community mental health service delivery, improved livelihoods, and policy change/domestic resource mobilization.