“I know” is only the beginning. ACE is here for “Now I understand.” Change starts before the crisis — before a behaviour, there is often a reason we could have noticed sooner.
Awareness & Education
Making mental health information easier to understand, access and apply.
Community Outreach
Taking awareness into schools, workplaces and communities, in person.
Advocacy & Action
Turning what we learn into healthier environments and stronger systems.
Where We Focus Most
Epilepsy awareness and stigma reduction leads everything ACE does.
Epilepsy Awareness & Stigma
Replacing dangerous myths — that epilepsy is contagious or a curse — with accurate understanding and support for those living with it.
Suicide Prevention
Recognising warning signs and knowing when — and how — someone needs help. ACE is not an emergency service; our role is prevention and early connection to care.
Substance-Use Awareness
Understanding risk, prevention and recovery — for individuals and the families around them.
Stress & Breaking Points
Helping people understand what’s happening before everyday pressure becomes a crisis.
Why ACE?
You can know that mental health matters and still miss the signs. The gap is often not the absence of care — it’s the absence of understanding. ACE turns information into understanding, understanding into conversation, and conversation into action.
Awareness that changes what people see, say and do.
A parent responds with understanding instead of shame. A teacher notices a warning sign before it becomes a crisis. A community stops asking “what’s wrong with them?” and starts asking “what happened — and how can we help?”
Meet ACE
ACE is led by practising Ugandan psychiatric clinical officers who bring both professional training and personal motivation to the work — including a founding, personal commitment to breaking the stigma around epilepsy. We don’t speak at communities — we listen, learn and work alongside them.
Be Part of the Change
Volunteer
Bring your time and voice to schools, workplaces and communities.
Partner With Us
Organisations, schools, workplaces and community initiatives.
Support Our Work
Help awareness reach further, into more classrooms and communities.
Awareness changes everything.
You don’t have to do everything. You just have to do something. Start where you are.
ACE Insights
Myths questioned, conversations started, and what’s happening in mental health — straight from ACE’s weekly series.
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