REACH Mental Wellness, RMW, is a non-profit that addresses the mental health needs of the Indo-American community in Greater Houston. Our goal is to decrease the stigma and shame associated with mental illness and provide a network of resources for people who seek help.
To establish our identity we posed some questions and came up with answers. 

Why is there a need for an organization to address mental illness in the Indo American community in Greater Houston?

• Increase in the number of suicides, mental illness especially post-Covid
• Lack of empathy and community support for people/caregivers of people with mental illness 
• Social isolation due to mental illness
• Denial of mental illness as a treatable illness
• Lack of education that people with mental illness do and can lead productive lives with treatment
• Lack of perception that mental illness is not any different from physical illness
• Lack of awareness of existing resources in the mental illness arena
• Hesitancy to connect with mental health practitioners (social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists and therapists).
• Perception of Mental illness as a personal weakness that can be overcome by “sheer willpower”
• Lack of mental health treatment that is “culturally attuned”

Board of Directors

• Vibha Agrawal, Founding Member
• Ranjana Vadhva Bedi, Founding Member
• Rajan Radhakrishnan, Founding Member
• Purusottam Sahoo
• Alpa Shah, Founding Member

Board of Trustees

• Vibha Agrawal
• Ranjana Vadhva Bedi
• Rajan Radhakrishnan
• Alpa Shah