Beyond the clinic
Awareness, reintegration, and support work beyond our two centres.
Most of what decides whether a person seeks help never happens in a clinic. It happens in trading centres, churches and mosques, staff rooms, and family compounds — in what people believe mental illness is, and what they expect will happen to someone who admits to it. Our community work happens there too.
Three strands of work
Awareness and stigma reduction. Sessions and campaigns, led by clinicians, that give communities accurate language for mental health and addiction and loosen the silence around them. More on this work.
Reintegration support. Help for people returning to community life after treatment — and for the families, employers, schools, and congregations receiving them. How reintegration support works.
Psycho-education for groups. Structured teaching about conditions, treatment, and how to support someone, delivered to groups of any kind. The psycho-education programme.
All three are active programmes, not aspirations; the owner of each engagement is a clinician, not a marketing team.
Who we work with
Community organisations, cultural and religious leaders, NGOs, local government, and informal groups that simply want their people better served. Partnerships take different shapes — a single awareness session, a campaign, ongoing reintegration work — and the shape is agreed together rather than taken off a shelf.
Starting a partnership
Tell us who your community is and what you are seeing. From there we can suggest what would help and what it would take. Call +256 770 700944, email info@safeplacesuganda.com, or reach our partnerships officer on +256 709 266549.
Recent work alongside partner organisations
Some of our community work happens through other organisations, at their invitation. Two recent examples, shared with the organisations’ permission.
Uganda Red Cross Society — supporting the responders
In August 2026, Safe Places provided psychological first aid and facilitated group sessions for Uganda Red Cross staff returning from the Ebola response in eastern DR Congo, where response teams — including a Ugandan Red Cross convoy — had come under attack. The people who respond to emergencies carry them home; this work was about giving them somewhere to put that down.
It followed earlier outbreak work closer to home: during Uganda’s Sudan virus disease outbreak of early 2025, which reached Mbale among other districts, Safe Places teams supported affected communities in eastern Uganda with counselling, therapy and psychosocial support.
Akina Mama wa Afrika — supporting women in political leadership
In May 2026, Safe Places supported Akina Mama wa Afrika’s work with women in political leadership, providing mental-health support at a leadership convening. Public life asks a great deal of the people in it, and asks them to show none of the cost. Because of the sensitivity of that setting, participants are not shown or named here.
Talk to someone who understands
You can call at any hour. A conversation is information, not commitment.