About Us
We are here to transform mental health accessibility and build emotional resilience
Executive Overview
The Jonakii Foundation is a multidisciplinary collective of mental health professionals, practitioners, counselors, and community advocates dedicated to transforming mental health accessibility, campus safety, and emotional resilience across West Bengal. Operating across higher education campuses, secondary schools, workplaces, care homes, and underserved rural communities, Jonakii delivers structured stress management workshops, educator capacity building, free mental health camps, individual counseling drives, and campus anti-ragging initiatives.
Our Core Commitments
Empathetic Listening
Creating judgment-free spaces where individuals feel heard and emotionally supported.
Resilient Minds
Equipping youth and communities with practical emotional habits to overcome life challenges.
Radical Inclusion
Dismantling stigma to ensure quality psychological care reaches remote, vulnerable grassroots populations.
Collective Healing
Empowering educators, caregivers, and local leaders to champion mental wellness together.
Vision & Mission
● Our Vision: To cultivate psychologically safe, resilient, and empathetic ecosystems across educational institutions, care facilities, and marginalized rural communities by making mental health support accessible, integrated, and destigmatized.
● Grassroots & Rural Access: Delivering accessible mental health awareness, psychological first aid, and emotional support to remote populations.
● Institutional Wellness: Partnering with academic leadership to embed structured mental health protocols and peer-support mechanisms.
● Capacity Building: Equipping educators, Head teachers, parents, and shelter caregivers with emotional regulation tools and gatekeeper training.
Core Operational Pillars
A. Student Stress Management Workshops: Jonakii conducts structured, interactive psychological workshops tailored for students in middle school, secondary, higher secondary (Class 6 to 12), and higher education.
Themes: Academic stress management, exam anxiety, peer dynamics, emotional self-regulation, and adolescent identity.
Facilitators: Deploying dedicated teams of 6 to 12 trained facilitators per workshop to maintain low facilitator-to-student ratios, ensuring psychological safety.
Coverage: Conducted across key West Bengal districts including Kolkata, Howrah, South 24 Parganas, North 24 Parganas, Nadia, Bardhaman, and Birbhum.
B. Educator Capacity Building & Teacher Training: Recognizing teachers as primary gatekeepers for student well-being, Jonakii designs specialized workshops for educators, Head teachers, and administrative school staff.
- Focus: Early detection of adolescent psychological distress, burnout prevention, empathetic classroom management, and crisis referral pathways.
- Impact: Multi-day teacher training workshops conducted for Head teachers and school staff across district centers (Nadia, South 24 Parganas, North 24 Parganas, Kolkata), training over 110+ educators.
C. Grassroots Rural & Community Outreach Camps: Jonakii extends mental health care beyond urban centers into geographically vulnerable, climate-affected, and socio-economically marginalized regions.
- Island & Coastal Outreach: Ground-level awareness drives and mental health camps in Gangasagar, Nimpith, Kultali, Companychar, and Bamankhali within the Sundarbans belt.
- District Drives: Free community mental health camps and public psychoeducation drives across district hubs in Birbhum, Bardhaman, South 24 Parganas, Howrah, Kolkata, and North 24 Parganas.
- Partnerships: Collaborating with local civic clubs, ward representatives, open-learning centers (Sabuj Path Mukhto Vidyalaya), and social welfare groups.
D. Specialized Group Therapy, Workplace Care & Shelter Support:
- Orphanages & Care Homes: Delivering specialized psychoeducation, trauma-informed emotional support, and group therapy for children, residents, and caregivers.
- Workplace Wellness: Tailored group counseling for young adults and employee stress-management workshops in partnership with community development authorities.
- Parental Psychoeducation: Interactive discussion forums with parents addressing academic performance pressure and intergenerational communication.
E. Mass Individual Counselling Drives & Dedicated Support Centers:
- Mass Drives: Individual counseling drives conducted by teams of more than 10 facilitators. During drives in Dum Dum and Garia, each facilitator conducts individual counseling for an average of 4 individuals over 5 hours.
- Dedicated Centre: Operating Jonakii’s permanent counseling center at Ganguly Bagan (Kolkata), providing consistent individual psychotherapy, psychometric screening, and long-term care.
F. Higher Education Campus Safety & Anti-Ragging Campaigns:
- Executing institution-wide Anti-Ragging and Mental Health Awareness Campaigns across university departments to foster harassment-free campus environments and student support networks.
Summary of Fieldwork & Operational Reach
Work Domain | Target Demographic | Locations & Scope | Core Impact / Methodology |
Student Stress Management | Secondary, Higher Secondary (Class 6-12) & University Students | Districts of Kolkata, Howrah, South 24 Parganas, North 24 Parganas, Nadia, Bardhaman, Birbhum | Small-group counseling (6–12 facilitators), pre/post questionnaires, ice-breaking, and interactive feedback loops. |
Teacher Capacity Building | Head Teachers, Secondary School Educators & Staff | Districts of Nadia, South 24 Parganas, North 24 Parganas, Kolkata | Gatekeeper training, burnout prevention, classroom emotional support, and early distress recognition. |
Grassroots Community Camps | General Public, Rural Youth, Farmers & Local Residents | South 24 Parganas (Gangasagar, Nimpith, Kultali), Birbhum, Bardhaman, Howrah, North 24 Parganas, Kolkata | Free mental health screening, stigma reduction, public psychoeducation, and open community dialogue. |
Orphanage & Care Home Outreach | Children, Residents & Caregivers at Orphanages & Care Homes | Kolkata, South 24 Parganas, North 24 Parganas, and regional centers | Group emotional regulation workshops, psychological first aid, trauma-informed care, and staff support. |
Individual Counselling Drive | General Community Members & Individuals | Dum Dum (North 24 Parganas) & Garia (Kolkata / South 24 Parganas) | Mass counseling drive with >10 facilitators; each facilitator counsels an average of 4 individuals in 5 hours. |
Dedicated Counselling Centre | Individuals seeking ongoing counseling & psychotherapy | Ganguly Bagan (Kolkata) | Jonakii’s permanent dedicated center providing structured individual psychotherapy and psychometric screening. |
Parental Guidance Sessions | Parents & Guardians of School Students | South 24 Parganas, Kolkata, and regional centers | Dialoguing on academic pressure, emotional regulation at home, and adolescent development. |
Group Therapy & Workplace Care | Institutional Employees, Community Workers & Young Adults | Kasba, Kolkata & regional centers | Group therapy, workplace stress management, and emotional support protocols. |
Campus Safety & Anti-Ragging | University Students, Faculty & Departmental Staff | Major University Campuses across Kolkata & surrounding districts | Department-wide anti-ragging drives, mental health awareness, and student support orientation. |
Operational Methodology & Standards
- Facilitator Multiplier Model: Interventions are conducted by structured teams of 6 to 12 qualified mental health facilitators, ensuring small group sizes and personalized support.
- Structured Feedback Loops: Every session includes pre/post feedback involving participants, Head teachers/institutional heads, and facilitators to evaluate immediate impact.
- Administrative & Civic Alignment: Active coordination with regional administrative offices, local administration, Ward Representatives, Academic Councils, and civic welfare divisions.
Strategic Expansion Goals & Roadmap
- Geriatric Counselling: Developing dedicated mental health support frameworks, home-visit models, and emotional wellness groups for senior citizens and aging populations.
- Correctional Homes: Partnering with correctional administration to offer rehabilitation-focused counseling, stress management, and emotional regulation programs for inmates and staff.
- Palliative Care: Integrating psychological first aid, grief counseling, and compassionate end-of-life mental health support for patients and families in palliative care environments.
- Permanent Rural Outposts: Establishing regular counseling hubs across coastal South 24 Parganas, Birbhum, Murshidabad, and other key districts for long-term care.
- Institutional & Campus Integration: Partnering with school management boards and higher education centers to embed annual mental health screenings and ongoing counseling into standard academic calendars.