About Us
OUR STORY
A society enjoying quality mental health and wellness.
Serenity Wellness Center (SWC) is a non-profit mental health organisation incorporated on 4 March 2019. We operate as a social enterprise responding to emerging mental health challenges in Zambia, including alcohol and substance use disorders.
Our multifaceted prevention, treatment and recovery interventions meet needs at individual, family, community, school and workplace levels. We partner with state and non-state actors to make quality mental health and wellness a reality.
Serenity Wellness Center hosts ISSUP Zambia Chapter, supporting collaboration among substance-use prevention, treatment and recovery professionals.
Visit ISSUP Zambia ChapterOur vision
A society enjoying quality mental health and wellness.
Our mission
To promote optimal mental health through evidence-based and culturally adapted prevention, treatment and recovery interventions at all levels of society
LOOKING AHEAD
Purpose that drives our work.
Our strategic objectives
- Strengthen evidence-based, culturally adapted harm reduction and demand reduction services.
- Enhance resource management and sustainability.
- Build capacity for programmes, project management and learning.
- Create linkages for collaboration, research and advocacy.
A global commitment, local action.
We contribute to Sustainable Development Goals 3.4 and 3.5: promoting mental health and wellbeing, and strengthening the prevention and treatment of substance use, including harmful alcohol use.
OUR PROGRESS
Care translated into impact.
- 167 people have graduated from our residential recovery programme, with a reported recovery rate above 50%.
- More than 300 people supported through individual and family outpatient psychotherapy.
- More than 56 clients supported through teletherapy.
- 33 young Zambians living with HIV and substance use disorders completed a 30-day inpatient programme funded by AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
- 70 staff members trained in child safeguarding across three organisations.
- Mental health training toolkit developed for FHI360 Zambia in 2021, and more than 100 participants trained in Livingstone, Chirundu, Lusaka and Kabwe.
- Collaboration with PAZ, the Medical Association of Zambia and YANA in responding to Covid-19-related mental health challenges.
YOUR NEXT CHAPTER STARTS HERE
Let’s take the first step, together.
Whatever you’re going through, you don’t have to face it alone.