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Core Advocacy First, Braegen Optimum Affiliates would like everyone to become aware of this pressing issue. A profound care and understanding towards people with special concerns are of great help for their wellness. A society that will embrace the weaknesses of its citizens will develop a strong bond where discrimination will not foster. Calling these people with special concerns with names and ridiculing them won’t benefit s neither. We like to inform and educate the majority, to enforce them with knowledge and wisdom, to act right. We have to make ourselves able for us to help the needy and the afflicted. Second, Braegen Optimum Affiliates would like to break the stigma. People with special concerns shouldn’t be branded with hostile, undignified pseudonyms. They are humans too that need equal but with extra-special treatment. There is definitely hope, there can be a cure for as long as we will avail medical, psychological, and mental assistance. Negligence won’t make our trail towards the solution possible. We should direct our attention in improving their condition and not to judge of what and who they are. Finally, through Braegen Optimum Affiliates, this can be an avenue wherein we can link our divided perspectives and unify it after all. The human mind is a wonderful, an amazing part of the body, greatest and inventions sprung out from this, might as well use it in a more useful manner. With our high hopes, we can at least lessen mental health related incidents, we can turn the world, like the brain, the sources of all good that will uplift the living condition of everyone. With our collaborative efforts, we can defeat mental health problems. That someday no one will cringe because of fear, anxiety, sadness, and all the negative energy. We will make the world, its people alright again.

Mission Our purpose for being on this earth is to help others recognize, develop, and use their God-given intuitive and abilities to ease suffering and grow in goodness, love, compassion and wisdom. Our mission is to build a strong relationship with our peers that we can learn on whenever we need a helping hand. Our desire is to help each of us connect to the love that is eternal, that is the reason for our existence. Braegen Optimum Affiliates promotes improved mental well-being through education by providing opportunities for individuals to identify early warning signs of mental illness and subsequently provide programs, a support for recovery and improves resilience for individuals in community, and advocacy to spread awareness of community’s understanding about mental health.

Vision Through listening to and serving others, we will learn new ideas and gain different perspectives. Our vision is to gain life-long learning, experiences and skills that we can apply to our lives. We will strive to gain mastery over life’s challenges through increasing my circle of influence and de-emphasizing those areas of concern over which we have no control.

Intended members: Community Counsellors- They are the authorized persons who will give mental treatment through counselling and give pieces of advice that will help clients to manage emotions as well as behaviour. Psychiatrists- They are medical doctors that assess both mental and physical aspects of psychological problems. Since they are medical doctors they are the one who can execute and order variety of treatments such as psychotherapy, meditations, and full range of psychological tests and medical laboratory. Clinical Psychologists- They are treating mental, emotional, and behavioural disorders. Like other counsellors, they also conduct therapeutic communication to treat emotional disorders. Mothers- Since mothers are the so called ilaw ng tahanan, they should be the first one who listen to their children’s problems and burdens. Also, the one who enlighten minds and hearts of their children on life’s challenges and guide them whenever needed.

Projects: Peer Counselling- Our organization wants to help those individuals to overcome unwanted situations and to release an emotional tension. Having a quality time for friends. Free from stress, free from any unfavourable situations, and free from any burdens. To at least have one day in a week venting out problems. Seminars on Managing Stress, Anger, and Conflict- Our organization wants to give an awareness and knowledge on how to manage stress, anger and conflict with the help of the different counsellors every last Sunday of the month. This seminar will be an avenue for the individuals to remind them that all of us must take care of our lives and live mentally healthy. Community Yoga or Zumba- Our organization wants people to have time to relax minds and to burn stress by dancing freely every Friday afternoon after a stressful work or class.

Free Consultations or Check Up- Our organization wants to improve the mental well-being of community people by having free consultations to people who suffer stress from work, school and at home. Our organization is open weekly to reach out your mental concerns. We always lift our hands to help others become mentally healthy. Recreational Activities- Our organization strongly provide recreational activities in this community like basketball and volleyball to reduce the stress of people especially teenagers. This would help our community people by putting their mental concerns by being active inside the game arena. Therefore, this organization build not only to manage people’s stress but by introducing to people to be productive and skilful in their respective lives.

Baliw, abnormal, may-toyo, and the likes are the few famous lines associated to people with mental health issues. The Philippines has a poor mental health projects, programs also, this issue has been taken less for too long, however the emergence of mental health awareness has been gradually addressed because of the enactment of the Republic Act 11036 or the mental health law. The new legislation brings hope to many Filipinos who cannot cater the needs of individuals with special concerns-Amidst the dark days, light is radiating in the community that can truly make a great difference. “This act establishes a national mental health policy for the purpose of enhancing the delivery of integrated mental health services, promoting and protecting the rights of persons utilizing psychiatric, neurologic and psychosocial health services, appropriating funds therefore, and for other purposes”. The world health organization stated that 24% of the global population or over 450 million people around the world suffer from different mental or neurological disorders. In the Philippines alone, WHO’s refers revealed that in the year 2012, a total number of 258 suicide caused by mental health problems. Mental health in our country is faced with false beliefs, ignorance, misconceptions and a stigmatize topic. The Braegan Optimum Affiliates, with the help of different humanitarian aids strongly addresses Mental Health Awareness with these core advocacies.

BRAEGEN OPTIMUM AFFILIATES (MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS) James Parallag Jerson Danao Vincent Tamayao Gayle Gumarang Jenema Callao