Promoting Mental Well-being with Compassion and Community

We believe mental health is just as important as physical health—and that healing starts with dignity, understanding, and care.

CATHCA empowers faith-based and community-rooted groups and organisations to become safe spaces of mental well-being, where people are listened to, supported, and never judged. Through training in basic counselling, mental health first aid, and psychosocial support, our community health workers and mental health ministers are equipped to walk alongside individuals facing emotional distress, trauma, or mental illness.

We raise awareness in parishes, communities, and clinics, tackle harmful myths, and promote hope-filled conversations that break the silence around mental health. Our model links individuals to care via compassionate, community-based referrals—especially in places where formal mental health services are scarce or stigmatised. Rooted in faith and driven by our commitment to inclusion and healing, this work helps communities rediscover resilience and hope.

Supported by the Papal Foundation, MISSIO, the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, and IACMHM, we are weaving mental health into the very fabric of faith and care.

Because when minds are healed, communities are strengthened—and no one is left behind.

Address: 7 The Haven
Cor. Tottenham Rd & Jellicoe Ln
Melrose
Johannesburg

Phone: 011 880-4022
Email: jane.sutherland@cathca.org