Twa Zanmi (Three Friends)

Haitian community members creating a soap opera to address mental health issues.

Twa Zanmi poster in Creole 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.

Project Blog

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Being an immigrant in the U.S means constantly engaging in the protection and promotion of one’s culture by building voluntarily and sometimes involuntarily a close-knit... read more
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American Public Media's Public Insight Network in collaboration with Southern California Public Radio (KPCC-FM) wants your help exploring the impact of immigration on families, communities... read more
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I left Haiti to come to the United States to pursue my medical education.  My first immigrant experience was to teach Anatomy & Physiology in a... read more
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Three and four generations ago, my family members came from Ireland seeking a better life and a better future. They struggled so that their children,... read more
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Posters for our upcoming kick-off event reach out to our community in three languages--French, English, and Creole.   read more
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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.   ... read more
Twa Zanmi partners are planning several events and activities which will unfold in 2008. We are working across 3 key areas: marketing, community-based research and... read more
The Boston Haitian Reporter featured an article by Martine Louis on the New Routes Twa Zanmi project. From the article: The Twa Zanmi [Three Friends] project—... read more
This story from Mark Schuller, who teaches at Vassar, is about the food riots in Haiti that took place in April. Although it is not... read more
Twa Zanmi- Three Friends, The Haitian American Public Health Initiative, (HAPHI) the Haitian Media Network, and the Institute for Community Inclusion, are working together to... read more