Twa Zanmi (Three Friends)
Haitian community members creating a soap opera to address mental health issues.
Update
Click on the link to watch video of speakers from our kick-off event in which the New Routes staff visited HAPHI and met community members.
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The Twa Zanmi Project will nurture a new Haitian immigrant community production team to produce and market a “Telenovela” program. The objective is to familiarize the Haitian community with the real experiences of immigrants living with depression and anxiety as an understandable result of acculturative stress.
The Twa Zanmi Project will generate a community dialogue about mental health, with the goal of developing health ambassadors in the community, decreasing stigma associated with mental illness, and promoting service access.
Partners: Haitian American Public Health Initiative, Haitian Media Network, Institute for Community Inclusion
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Hi Sara,It would be a great
Sara Rohde Egal Shidad
Sara Rohde Egal Shidad Coordinator
Hello Twa Zanmi Team,
I am very intrigued by your project, and especially in how you are addressing stigma and service access. Egal Shidad is working on these issues too, so I would love to learn more about what you are doing. Even if our audiences are not the same, you might have some really helpful information. We need ideas on stigma and service access. Do you have any tips for us?
Thank you,
Sara
Friendly faces!