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Project
Guardian is a longitudinal study of physical and psychological
development of school children to improve their health and
psychological status and to assist the school authorities
for adopting model approach on health and psychological care
for students suffering from stress, slow learning and learning
disability. The project envisages data bank of cross sectional
studies pertaining to knowledge, attitude, behaviour etc.
It acts as developing standard assessment tools for evaluation
of school children using observation in natural setting of
learning disability. The project is initiated by National
Institute of Behaviroual Sciences (NIBS), an NGO dedicated
to mental health, the subject that is often neglected. NIBS
has been running mental health clinics and mental health outdoor
services. Nibs ran for quite some time such clinic in government
hospital of Salt Lake, Kolkata, which was privatized for the
first time to an NGO. Government of West Bengal, Department
of health and Education have approved Project Guardian to
be implemented by NIBS. |
