Embrace All…. No Labels Attached: Reflections by OYA Foundation

The present chapter provides experiential insights from ‘Open Your Arms Foundation’ (OYA), an organization dedicated to Mental Health that focuses on a holistic approach by providing psychological counselling/therapy, remedial education, workshops and training. It traces the initial journey of OYA when the main challenge was to mitigate the taboo against mental health and familiarize everyone with the concept of mental well-being. Through case vignettes, the chapter endeavours to illustrate few success stories about OYA's creative approaches that had an enormous impact on the lives of the clients. It also covers the unique and budding project Pankh and another new initiative OYA’s Changmakers comprising of the alumni with the ideology of paying it forward; giving to the society what they received in their testing times.