MindIT

How our
service works

We are a mental health service that leverages on innovative tools and mobile technology to provide free mental health screening for Ghanaians and facilitate the provision of free/affordable care for them under the NHIS.

We have a toll free USSD/Short code ( *844*555# ) which users dial and provide responses to some short questions. User responses are instantly relayed to our call center where personnel call users to screen them further. A free/subsidized (NHIS supported) consultation at the nearest mental unit is clinched for users who are found to have symptoms suggestive of a mental health disorder.

*Disclaimer: We neither diagnose nor offer definitive management of mental health disorders.

OUR STORY

BY FOUNDER (DR. ATSU LATEY)

MindIT was borne out of a teacher’s plight for help. In commemoration of World Health Day 2017, the founder and CEO of MindIT, Dr Atsu Latey (then a 5th year medical student who had just returned from a Psychiatry elective in New York University) featured an article in a local newspaper on how to recognize depression in people. A teacher from a remote town in Ghana read the piece and identified herself as being depressed and so she called him for help. She did not know she was depressed, she did not know there was treatment available and she also did not know where she could get the help from. She was importunate with her requests but unfortunately, he got out of touch with her and did not hear from her again. It dawned on him that there may be some people who may be suffering the same predicament as her and so he thought of a way to screen the Ghanaian population for mental illness and offer them care which is affordable and closest to them. Fast forward, MindIT was born from a group of youth who believed they could provide their skills pro bono to develop innovative IT tools to provide affordable and accessible mental healthcare to Ghanaians.

Dr. Atsu Latey
CEO, MindIT.

OUR TEAM

Dr.Atsu Latey

Chief Executive Officer

Etse Latey

President

Edem Segbedzi

Lead Engineer

Etornam Akaho

Head of Public Education and Human Resource

Maame Esi Coleman

Social Media Lead

THE RAFT

ABOUT THE RAFT

THE RAFT is an office facility which was established for MindIT by some benevolent individuals and organizations. which is essential in facilitating affordable and accessible mental healthcare for Ghanaians and also developing innovative solutions to the mental health problems in Ghana. Historically, a raft is a makeshift life saving boat usually made in times of crises-usually a shipwreck. A raft is born out of creativity and improvisation- using whatever available resources are available to a person ( logs, barrels, etc) and this helps to keep it afloat. Essentially, The Raft facility provides a workstation for persons who wish to use whatever skills and knowledge they have to develop innovative interventions to impact mental health in Ghana. In the case where someone with a mental health disorder wishes to jump ship (take one’s life by suicide), we have the raft (and its interventions) to help keep that person afloat in the storms of life.

WELCOME ABOARD

Wanna join us? Be our guest!

Aboard, there's:
-the CALL CENTER DEPARTMENT with call center personnel who would always love to have you join them,
-the INNOVATION HUB where innovations are created to promote mental healthcare and
-the EVENTS CORNER where mini events are hosted!

Choose from this array where you would best fit, and we would be glad to have you on board as a volunteer or intern.

How our
service works

IN TWO YEARS

SINCE OUR LAUNCH

WE'VE
HAD

3000
USERS

2000
SCREENED

1000
REFERALS

OUR STORY

BY FOUNDER (DR. ATSU LATEY)