Training Module on the Right to Mental Health
Role of LGUs:
o Initiate and sustain nationwide multimedia
campaign to raise public awareness on the
protection and promotion of mental health and
rights (Sec. 23)
o Take responsibility in training Barangay Health
Workers and other volunteers with technical
guidance from DOH on the promotion of mental
health, advocacy of patient’s rights, case finding,
identification, and referral (Sec. 28)
o Create program in accordance to the guidelines of
the Philippine Council for Mental Health and
coordinate its implementation with a quarterly
report
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Duties & Responsibilities of the Local Government Units (LGUs)
a) Review, formulate, and develop the regulations and
guidelines
b) Integrate mental health care services in basic health care
services
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c) Establish training programs necessary to enhance the
capacity of mental health service providers at LGU-level
d) Promote deinstitutionalization and other recovery-based
approaches to the delivery of mental health care services
e) Establish, reorient, and modernize mental health care
facilities
f) Provide or facilitate access to public housing facilities,
vocational training and skills development programs, and
disability or pension benefits
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Other Related Policies
• RA No. 9442 Magna Carta for Persons with Disability
• RA No. 9262 Anti-Violence Against Women and
Their Children
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RA No. 10173 Data Privacy Act
RA No. 10627 Anti-Bullying Act of 2013
RA No. 11223 Universal Health Care
RA No. 11313 Safe Spaces Act
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