Port Blair, June 19: The Department of Social Welfare will start a Wellness Centre is being started by Department of Social Welfare from Quarter No JG -6 Type V, Junglighat. The Wellness Centre shall provide services of Counselors, Nutritionists and other referral services by tying up with a pool of resource agencies which can support different interventions intended through the centre for physical, emotional and mental wellbeing. The centre will be inaugurated by the Lt Governor, A & N Islands, Lt. General AK Singh (retd) at 10.30 am on June 21 on the occasion of International Yoga Day.
Counseling would be done for individual cases, besides group activities. The centre will have a toll free caller number and people who need counseling and emotional support can either call directly or be referred by friends/family / other acquaintances. Outreach and extension services would be conducted from time to time in association with organizations like Chinmaya Mission, Art of Living, Alcohol Anonymous. The toll free numbers are 3195 and 230504.
The centre will also serve the needs of women including girls below 18 years who are affected by violence. The centre has provision of short stay for such women and will facilitate transportation, medical assistance, police help, legal aid, counseling. Institutions established under Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) ACT, 2000 and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 will be linked with the Wellness centre.
