Weanne Estrada

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ? · Weanne Estrada:Mental Health Without Borders: How Compassion, Culture, and Community Transform Lives Worldwide · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

Of course.

No, thank you for having me.

I've been looking forward to this, getting to talk about some of my favorite topics.

So thank you for having me.

Sure.

So I am a mental health specialist at ADRA International.

So ADRA, that's the Adventist Development and Relief Agency.

We are the global humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and we're currently operating in more than 120 countries worldwide.

We have about a thousand different projects, and they're in the different fields of health, nutrition, water...

education, livelihoods or emergencies.

And across all of that, mental health is embedded into them.

And so what I do as the mental health specialist is I'm among a range of different roles.

There's maybe two core ones, and one is I help design and implement

our mental health and psychosocial support programs.

And so that involves making sure that these programs follow international guidelines, that they're delivered effectively and safely for our beneficiaries, that they're culturally adapted, they're relevant and they're feasible.

And then the other part of the work that I do is also I support the staff that we deploy during emergencies.

So there are certain occasions when a major humanitarian crisis might completely overwhelm the capacities of the local country office.

And so what we do in the situations, for example, last year when Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica or this year with a war in the Middle East,

is that we deploy some of our personnel to help out those offices.

And so what I do is because these staff members are going to be undergoing, you know, a new culture, a new environment, a very stressful job in these new placements.

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