Head – Training
Contact Details : 8527209021
Gracy Andrew, A Clinical Psychologist by training comes with 25+ years of experience in the area of youth health. From 2012-2022 Gracy served as WorldBeing India’s Vice President and Country Director in India, playing a key role in launching, expanding, and supervising WorldBeing’s programs on Emotional Resilience and research efforts in India and Kenya. Before joining WorldBeing in 2012, Gracy was with Sangath Society, a renowned leader in the field of mental health since its inception in 1996.
At Sangath she worked in various capacities including as program head of the adolescent program for several years and as Executive Director for two years. An experienced qualitative researcher, Gracy has worked as a consultant to many organizations. She is co-author of several publications in India and globally.
She also has been involved in developing various interventions and training programs for youth in the areas of mental health and adolescent health. Gracy has contributed to training resources at the national level in India including the RKSK, and Ayushnan Bharath program. In 2019 she was appointed as a member of the World Health Organization’s guidance development group for promotional programs on global adolescent mental health. More recently in 2023, she was commissioned to support development of an integrated school health program at the MoHFW.
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Publications
Leventhal, KS., Cooper, PL., DeMaria, LM., Priyam, P.,Shankar. H., Andrew, G. and Leventhal S. Promoting Wellbeing and Empowerment via Youth First: Exploring Psychosocial Outcomes of a School-Based Resilience Intervention in Bihar, India. Front. Psychiatry (2022)
Andrew, G., Leventhal, K., Demaria, L., Toussaint, L.L., Tiwari, A. and Leventhal, S. The Self- Help Group Resilience Project: Developing and Piloting a Resilience Intervention in Bihar, India. Journal of Social Intervention: Theory and Practice, 31(2), pp.40-60 (2022).
Sachs, L.K., Andrew, G., Collins C S., DeMaria L., Shanker H. and Leventhal S. Training School Teachers to Promote Mental and Social Well-Being in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Lessons to facilitate scale-up from a Participatory Action Research Trial of Youth First in India. International journal of Emotional Education, Special Issue Volume 10, Number 2, (2018).
Andrew, G., Sachs, K. and Leventhal, S. Resilience-Based Approaches to Life Skills Education among Youth in India: Results of Three Program Trials. Paper submitted to the Assam, India (2016).
Leventhal, K., DeMaria, L., Gillham, J., Andrew, G., et al. Psychosocial Resilience Curriculum Provides the “Missin Piece” to Boost Adolescent Physical Health: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Girls First in India. Social Science & Medicine 161 (2016) 37-46.
Leventhal, K., Gillham, J., DeMaria, L., Andrew, G., et al. Building Psychosocial Assets and Wellbeing Among Adolescent Girls: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Adolescence, 45 (2015) 284-295.
Sachs, K., Andrew, G., Leventhal, S., Gillham, J. and Vélez, C. Risk and Protective Factors for Adjustment Problems Among Adolescent Girls in India. Paper Presented at Western Psychological Association Annual Convention, Reno, NV (2013).
Shinde, S., Andrew, G., et al. The Impact of a Lay Counsellor Led Collaborative Care Intervention for Common Mental Disorders in Public and Private Primary Care: A Qualitative Evaluation Nested in the MANAS Trial in Goa, India, Social Science and Medicine 88 (2013), 48-55.
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