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Reach Within is the child health equity organization under the WINDREF Caribbean Centre for Health Equity. We deliver mental health recovery programs for children who have experienced trauma from abuse, violence, and natural disaster. Research has shown that if left untreated, significant childhood trauma can lead to poor educational outcomes, mental illness, chronic disease, homelessness, and incarceration, among other serious challenges. In the wake of Hurricane Beryl, WINDREF through the WINDREF Return of Children’s Happiness Programme is working with Reach Within to provide psychological first aid in the first instance to the children of Petite Martinique, Carriacou, and Grenada and we are appropriately trained and prepared to deliver long-term psychosocial care in the form of summer camps and subsequently school-based curricula. We are committed to the psychological well-being of all our children in the tri-island state and the region.

Healthy children make healthy adults!

Kirani James, Grenada’s Olympic Gold Medalist, is WINDREF’S Sports for Health Ambassador, helping Grenada’s children develop healthy lifestyles through sports. We’ve partnered with the National Schools Sporting Events to launch programs that are exciting to children that will set habits for life that lessen the incidence of obesity, diabetes and hypertension.

WINDREF has partnered with the Nature Conservancy to re-grow and transplant coral reefs while replanting mangroves along the shoreline. Both of these programs are designed to protect the people living along the shoreline from the impact of climate change while reinvigorating the beautiful Caribbean ecosystem.

WINDREF’s Center for Child Neurodevelopment trains regional experts to develop and administer culturally appropriate child assessments. The organization also partners with local community health workers to implement programs that build social-emotional connections between caregivers and children.