Annual Themes for Advocacy & Awareness

Each year, Holy Innocents BPSS Centre launches a central theme to guide its outreach, education, and community mobilization efforts. These annual themes help raise awareness, stimulate dialogue, and focus intervention strategies on emerging mental health and addiction-related challenges affecting different groups in society.

2023 – Inua Boy Child (Uplifting the Boy Child)

In 2023, our focus was on the challenges facing boys and men, who are often overlooked in gender-based empowerment discussions.
Through community forums, school outreach, and mentorship programs, we tackled issues such as:

  • Drug and alcohol addiction among young men

  • Mental health stigma and silent struggles

  • Peer pressure and societal expectations

  • Rising school dropouts and unemployment

  • Lack of male role models and mentorship

This theme called for restoring balance by promoting the dignity, responsibility, and potential of the boy child.

2024 – Supporting Sufferers of Addiction

In 2024, we shifted our lens to addiction sufferers across all demographics, emphasizing compassion over condemnation.
Our efforts were geared toward:

  • Raising awareness on the medical and psychological aspects of addiction

  • Reducing stigma and discrimination in families and communities

  • Promoting early intervention and access to treatment

  • Encouraging families to participate actively in recovery processes

  • Collaborating with churches, schools, and local leaders for inclusive support

The goal was to humanize the struggle and champion the recovery journey as one of courage and healing.

2025 – Cry of a Woman

This year’s theme centers on women facing addiction-related trauma—a call to listen, support, and empower.
Women often experience addiction through hidden pain, and our 2025 theme seeks to address:

  • Domestic violence and emotional abuse

  • Depression, trauma, and untreated mental health conditions

  • Economic vulnerability and caregiving burdens

  • Substance dependency among women in crisis

  • Barriers to accessing rehabilitation and therapy

Through targeted support groups, advocacy campaigns, and holistic healing approaches, we aim to bring the “cry of a woman” to the center of recovery and restoration.