Prosalute

What Prosalute does

Prosalute is a Basel-headquartered Swiss nonprofit (Verein) that delivers multilingual, low-threshold psychosocial counseling and transcultural psychotherapy, alongside health information events and educational programs, to migrants, refugees, people of color, asylum seekers, sans-papiers, and other socially disadvantaged residents of Switzerland. The organization was founded on January 17, 2020 by sociologist and medical ethnologist Dr. phil. Amina Trevisan, extending a University-of-Basel-anchored project she initiated in 2012 on depression in the context of migration. Its core methodology — outreach-based, or aufsuchende Arbeit — brings services into neighborhood meeting points, family centers, and adult education institutions rather than requiring clients to visit a clinic.

Service delivery rests on an interdisciplinary team of social workers, social pedagogues, psychologists, physicians-in-training, nursing professionals, and traumapedagogues, with content delivered in at least six languages including German, Italian, Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese. Operational sites span Basel-Stadt (the Gundeli, Klybeck-Kleinhüningen, and Lothringen quartier locations, plus a 2025 Dreirosenanlage site) and the Basel-Landschaft site at Pratteln. Beyond individual counseling, Prosalute runs information events on depression in migration contexts, transcultural family work, conversation groups (including for Ukrainian refugees and elderly Italian migrants), and art/movement groups for refugee children and youth. A 2025 project on voluntary work, migration, and loneliness in old age extends the portfolio into aging populations.

The business model is grant-funded: services are provided free of charge to clients, and Prosalute is financed through institutional supporters including Gesundheitsdepartement Basel-Stadt, Fachstelle Integration und Antirassismus Basel-Stadt, Hohenegg Stiftung, and Christoph Merian Stiftung. Revenue figures are not publicly disclosed and there is no equity, debt, or commercial revenue stream. Governance sits with an interdisciplinary operational board and a 2022-established advisory board; the organization employs roughly 15 staff and project managers.

Name

Prosalute

Legal name

Prosalute

Website

https://prosalute.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Basel-based Swiss nonprofit providing multilingual, outreach psychosocial counseling, transcultural psychotherapy, and health information services to migrants, refugees, and socially disadvantaged populations across the Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft cantons, funded by cantonal government grants and Swiss foundations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Mental Health and Psychosocial Counseling Services

NAICS

Other Individual and Family Services (624190), Child and Youth Services (62411), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (62412)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Youth Mental Health, Counseling & Wellbeing (Education-Linked) Nonprofits (BPAGADAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Community-Based Preventive & Health Promotion Clinics (HLAFAGAO), Refugee & Humanitarian Newcomer Orientation (Resettlement Support) (EDAAADAI)

Keywords

• Psychosocial counseling
• Transcultural psychotherapy
• Migrant health services
• Mental health support
• Community health outreach

Headquarters

HQ city

Basel

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Grant Funding: Prosalute operates as a nonprofit organization funded primarily through grants from government health departments, integration offices, and private foundations in the Basel region of Switzerland.

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Prosalute is a Swiss nonprofit transcultural competence center that provides multilingual, low-threshold psychosocial counseling and transcultural psychotherapy for migrants, refugees, People of Color, asylum seekers, and socially disadvantaged populations in the Basel region. Services include mental health counseling, healthcare system navigation, information events on depression in migration contexts, transcultural family work, conversation groups, and educational programs for healthcare and social-service professionals. All counseling services are provided free of charge to clients.

Product overview

Prosalute is a nonprofit transcultural competence center for mental and physical health that operates as a single unified service rather than a platform. Its core offerings center on multilingual psychosocial counseling and transcultural psychotherapy for migrants, refugees, and socially disadvantaged populations in Basel, Switzerland. The organization provides outreach-based consultation (aufsuchende Beratung), information events on mental health and depression in migration contexts, and educational programs for professionals. Services are delivered at multiple locations in Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft cantons, with a focus on low-threshold, free access to healthcare navigation and mental health support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Psychosoziale Beratung (Psychosocial Counseling) Multilingual, low-threshold psychosocial counseling delivered in the client's native language by an interdisciplinary team of social workers, social pedagogues, psychologists, health professionals, and traumapedagogues for migrants, refugees, and socially disadvantaged individuals.
• Transkulturelle Psychotherapie (Transcultural Psychotherapy) Transcultural psychiatric and psychotherapeutic treatment for migrants and socially disadvantaged people with mental health issues.
• Informationsveranstaltungen zu Depression im Migrationskontext Multilingual information events about mental health and depression for migrants, conducted in German, Italian, Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese.
• Beratung und Information (Consultation and Information) Support for migrants and socially disadvantaged individuals to navigate the Swiss healthcare system, including information about prevention, health insurance, costs, rights, and legal foundations.
• Bildungsangebote (Educational Services) Training and continuing education on transcultural competence, migration, and health for professionals in healthcare and social services.
• Ehrenamtlich Tätige im Bereich Migration und Einsamkeit im Alter Outreach information events and workshops for multipliers with migration experience, addressing loneliness among elderly migrants in Switzerland.
• Gesprächsgruppen (Conversation Groups) Group-based conversation sessions for specific populations including Ukrainian refugees and elderly migrants from Italy, addressing topics such as loneliness.
• Mal- und Bewegungsgruppe (Art and Movement Groups) Art and movement groups for refugee children and youth from Ukraine and their accompanying persons, providing psychosocial support through creative and physical activities.
• Transkulturelle Familienarbeit (Transcultural Family Work) Outpatient family support and group offerings for children and youth, delivered by qualified clinical therapeutic social educators using transcultural approaches.

Quantifiable outcome

• Pilot project externally evaluated and rated as very good in 2024

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Gesundheitsdepartement Basel-StadtcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Government health department providing ongoing support and collaboration for the psychosocial counseling pilot project in Basel-Stadt canton
• Universität BaselcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2012Academic partner whose research on depression in migration context formed the foundation for the Prosalute project initiated in 2012
• Fachstelle Integration und Antirassismus Basel-StadtcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIntegration and anti-racism office supporting the outreach psychosocial counseling project within the cantonal integration program

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Caritas Schweiz: Major Catholic social-services organization providing counseling, asylum support and integration services to migrants across Switzerland. Overlaps with Prosalute on psychosocial counseling for disadvantaged populations but operates nationally and across many service lines.
• Schweizerisches Rotes Kreuz (Swiss Red Cross): Switzerland's largest humanitarian organization; runs nationwide migrant health, integration and psychosocial support programs, including the Migration Service and HEKS-adjacent offerings. Directly comparable mission focus on vulnerable populations but at much larger scale and broader mandate.
• HEKS/EPER (Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen Schweiz): Swiss Protestant aid agency with substantial refugee, migration and social-counseling programs including psychosocial support. Comparable target population and service mix, with deeper geographic reach and larger funding base.
• Schweizerische Flüchtlingshilfe (SFH): National umbrella organization for refugee aid in Switzerland, providing legal counseling, advocacy and psychosocial support. Overlaps with Prosalute on migrant advocacy and access-to-services support; much larger national footprint.
• Schweizerisches Arbeiterhilfswerk (SAH): Swiss workers' aid organization running migrant integration, social counseling and employment support programs nationwide. Overlaps with Prosalute on counseling for disadvantaged populations and multilingual service delivery.

Direct peers

• Miges Plus: Swiss national platform for multilingual health information for migrants, providing translated health resources and guidance. Closely comparable health-literacy and health-navigation mission for migrant populations, though delivered as digital content rather than counseling.
• FIZ (Fraueninformationszentrum für Migrantinnen): Specialist center in Zurich providing counseling, legal advice and psychosocial support to migrant women, including victims of trafficking. Closely comparable niche focus on migration-specific psychosocial counseling, but geographically Zurich-based.
• Contact Netz: Basel-based association offering low-threshold social counseling, debt counseling and integration support for disadvantaged populations including migrants. Same city and canton as Prosalute with overlapping psychosocial counseling and health-navigation use cases.
• Ambulatorium für Folteropfer (Outpatient Clinic for Torture Victims): Swiss specialist outpatient service providing transcultural psychotherapeutic and psychosocial care to victims of torture and war, including refugees. Highly comparable clinical and transcultural approach serving overlapping migrant populations.

Regional players

• AOZ (Asyl-Organisation Zürich): Zurich-based asylum organization providing counseling, housing and psychosocial support to refugees and migrants. Closely comparable service portfolio to Prosalute but operating in a different Swiss canton/region.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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