STORY PREVIEW

2021

How might we help our community's resolve mental health issues like depression or anxiety that arose during the pandemic

Udyanshalini's fellowship Pune chapter

Maharashtra

MENTOR

Madhura Dabir Mam

Step 1 FEEL

List the challenges or problems in your surroundings (school,neighbourhood etc.) that bothered you.

Ans: ● People facing stress, depression, anxiety and other issues related to mental health. ● Students facing loss of education problems because of lack of proper device and internet service. ● Waste disposal in inappropriate manner in locality causing unhygienic area and spread of diseases. ● People facing health issues because of sitting at home all the time.

State the problem chosen to work and why.

Ans: ● We choose to work on how might we help our communities resolve mental health issues like depression or anxiety that arose during the pandemic. We saw serious as well as minor cases related to mental health issues. We saw sucide cases in our locality due to these issues , also we ourselves faced issues like stress. So we thought we should work on this problem.

Who were the people affected by the problem? What were their primary concerns?

● The people affected by this problem is our friends, family , we ourselves as well as other people in our locality. The major concern was how to cope up with this arising issues. And considering the taboo and misconceptions around issues regarding mental health they are worried. To get proper guidance to overcome these issues is also a big concern. They were also concerned that their privacy is not compromised.

Step 2 IMAGINE

List ALL the different solutions you came up with.

● To make a bot which consists of various material to motivate the user and guide them. ● Create a website which consists of different materials so the user feels happy and get a way to overcome and fight his/ her depression or anxiety. ● Talk to people, be a listener or buddy with whom they can share and slowly fight with their problems to get over mental health issues

Which solution from those listed above did you choose to implement and why?

● We choose to work on making a bot which consists of various material to motivate the user and guide them. In this way we could reach to many people irrespective of

Step 3DO

Describe very briefly the process of implementing your solution(s).

Ans:- with the help of Java language,we created a chatbot on replit, where we inserted varies input and output conversations that could possibly happens.

What was the result or impact of your project?

Ans:- It could be helpful for people to connect and ask for help with assurance of privacy ,trust, anyone, anywhere can access this service as long as they have the link and don't need extra material and information, and they access it very easily. Their are no restriction making it easily available for anyone.

How many people were impacted by your solution(s)?

What did the impacted people have to say about your project? Provide 2 quotes or testimonials:

Ans:- 1. It was easy to access,and a afun learning experience, I was able to get few good advices to takle my issues regarding mental health 2. I really liked assurance of privacy that you provided. I found few good solutions for my problem, but i believe u could add few more conversations, 3. Suggestions provided by Bot r regarding the topic.

What challenges did you encounter while implementing your project, and how did you overcome them?

Ans:- 1. We faced serveral technical issues like problems in programming and running the program, and veries search.

How long did it take to implement your solution?

0-7 Days

Which global goals does your story align with?

Good health and well being

Please explain briefly why do you think so?

ans:- Goal of WHO speacial initiative help is that 100 million more people have access to quality and affordable mental health care by 2023 the initiative is to be implemented in 12 countries out of which 17 will identified which does not include India. Hence we believe our small step in providing proper guidance for the people's seeking help for mental health care can contribute in the biggest picture.

Step 4 SHARE

How did you share your project with your school and community? Who did you share your project with? What was their response?

Ans:- By using various social media platforms, and friends circle I send our project in school social media group

Approximately how many people did you share your story of change with?

20-50

Briefly share your plan to sustain the impact of your project?

Ans:- People who facing mental health issues it really difficult for them to share their experience and thought and comunicate on thier problems most of the people's are not interested to listen them , so with the help of Our Bot people feel easy to communicate. 1. We can spread the word to crate awareness regarding this issues to clr the misconceptions and taboo around issues regarding mental health.. 2. We can educate people regarding this issues so they become comfortable in taking out their mental health problems and seek help for it

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