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The PEMA Secretariat, a National Nodal Agency for Mental Health Promotion and Services in Bhutan
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Protection services

Protection services include prevention and responding to violence, exploitation, abuse, neglect, and harmful practices. It included the following;

Child Protection

The Child Protection Unit provides protection, legal, family, and emergency response services for children in difficult circumstances, including those affected by abuse, conflict with the law, custody disputes, and family crises.
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Gender Based Violence

The GBV Unit provides protection services to survivors of gender-based violence and links families to counselling, reintegration, and family support services.
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Counselling services

Counselling services are offered online and in person, allowing clients to choose their preferred mode, including postvention support for families and friends bereaved by suicide.
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PEMA Home

The PEMA Home provides short-term, safe care for children in crisis, focusing on immediate safety, emotional wellbeing, and timely family reunification, usually within two weeks.
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Adoption and Alternative Care Services

Adoption and alternative care services support domestic and intercountry adoption and ensure children grow up in safe, nurturing environments, guided by national laws and guidelines with the child’s best interests as the priority.
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Treatment and Rehabilitation Services

Treatment and rehabilitation services provide inpatient and outpatient care for mental health conditions and substance use disorders, including continuing care, peer support, and relapse prevention delivered nationwide through health facilities, prisons, communities, and the PEMA Centre.
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Hospital-based SUD Treatment and Care

This service offers structured outpatient and hospital-based SUD treatment, including clinical care, counselling, relapse prevention, and continuing support, delivered through national and regional hospitals with plans to expand to all districts.
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Prison-based SUD Treatment and Care

Prison-based SUD treatment provides structured rehabilitation for incarcerated individuals through peer-led support, a 12-Step approach, and a therapeutic community model, focusing on recovery, behaviour change, and reintegration.
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The PEMA Rehab

PEMA Rehab offers 24-hour residential drug treatment and rehabilitation for individuals with SUD, providing holistic care—including clinical treatment, peer support, mindfulness, and complementary therapies—in a structured setting as the national specialized facility.
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Peer Support Services

Peer support services offer ongoing recovery through structured group sessions and shared experiences, helping build coping skills, motivation, and relapse prevention, and are integrated into hospital and residential SUD treatments with phased nationwide expansion.
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Reintegration and Aftercare Centre

The Reintegration and Aftercare Centre offers structured post-treatment and post-incarceration support focused on skills development, livelihood rehabilitation, and productive engagement to promote dignity, self-reliance, and reduce reoffending.
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Skilling and Livelihood

Skilling and livelihood services offer vocational training and employment opportunities to support incarcerated individuals, substance users, and mental health patients, collaborating with national agencies to enhance employability, income generation, and long-term self-sufficiency.
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Transition Home

Transition Homes provide temporary, safe, and substance-free housing that supports recovery through stability, peer support, and life skills development, helping individuals transition from rehabilitation to independent living.
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Sober Recreational Facilities

Sober recreational facilities offer safe, substance-free spaces for individuals in recovery to engage in healthy social and recreational activities that promote coping skills, physical well-being, social connection, and peer support.
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Community Programs and Services

Community programs provide accessible mental health support through counselling, peer support, youth interventions, and education, integrating stress management and prevention to promote early care, awareness, and resilience.
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Outreach Services

Outreach services deliver mental health and SUD support to underserved populations via mobile teams, community workers, and telehealth, ensuring follow-up care and continuity for successful reintegration.
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BRAVE Program

The BRAVE Programme is a national framework uniting rehabilitation, skills development, livelihood support, and social reintegration for vulnerable populations to promote dignity, self-reliance, and successful community reintegration.
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Yarju Open-Air Prison (OAP)

The Yarju Open-Air Prison, part of the BRAVE Programme, provides work-based rehabilitation through skills training, agricultural and vocational activities, supporting inmates’ employability, responsibility, and reduced recidivism.
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Psychiatric services

PEMA Centre offers psychiatric services including detoxification, counselling, mental health consultations, child and adolescent mental health care, day treatment, and aftercare programs.
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Case Registration

For official use only

Call 1098

If you or someone is in immediate Danger

Call 1010

If you or someone is in immediate Danger

Helpline service is 24/7.

For protection and counselling services, email at helpline@thepema.gov.bt or call 1098.
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Addressing mental health in spectrum

Psychosocial Disability

Mental Disorder

Mental Distress

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- Dharshing,Thimphu
- (+975)02 332862
- > PostBox. 150

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Apollo Bhutan Institute of Nursing
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Royal Thimphu College
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Paro College of Education
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