Community Mental Health Development in Poland 2018

  Polish Mental Health Services are in the process of transforming from institutional care to community based provision. This reform will include the development of a number of community mental health centres for adults and young people across the country. This reform is helped by significant funding from the European Community. This process also includes the … Read more

Mental health, human rights and standards of care: Assessment of the quality of institutional care for adults with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities in the WHO European Region

The WHO project on adults with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities living in institutions in the WHO European Region targets a highly marginalized, vulnerable group whose quality of life, human rights and reinclusion in society are seriously compromised by outdated, often inhumane institutional practices.  The specific objectives of the project were to address gaps in knowledge … Read more

Community-Based Maternal Mental Health Respite and Support Services

  Rob Warriner, the CEO of the Walsh Trust has given us this report on their innovative community based service for keeping mother and their babies in a safe, home like, nurturing and supportive environment WALSH Trust has provided community-based, led and responsive mental health and well- being services since 1988. In 2015 WALSH Trust … Read more

The Importance of Small Things

Small Things, Micro-Affirmations and Helpful Professionals Everyday:  Recovery-Orientated Practices According to Persons with Mental Health Problems Community Mental Health Journal Alain Topor· Tore Dag Bøe · Inger Beate Larsen 3 February 2018 This article is an open access publication The aim of this study, co-authored by IMHCN Collaborator Alain Topor, is to present concrete descriptions of … Read more

Report: The right [and the opportunity] to have a [whole] life

Report: The right [and the opportunity] to have a [whole] life Trieste, Italy November 2017 This was an open interactive meeting with an exchange of new thinking, creative ideas and innovative practices. It included study visits to services and programmes, short courses and masterclasses on innovative practices, working groups and expert meetings. Topics: Epidemiology of Rights The issue … Read more

Democracy and Community Mental Health Care

Organized by Mental Health Department ASUI Trieste and Associations and Social Cooperatives of the territory in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Health and World Health Organization Policies, among legislations, Laws and personal rights Services, from health / care to Community Mental Health promotion Powers, from excluding to including Inequalities, among social determinants, needs and social rights … Read more

Forty years of the Law 180: the aspirations of a great reform, its successes and continuing need

 “The rights-based approach opened by the Law 180 should now take into consideration the new legal situation caused by the CRPD worldwide in the area of individuals’ human rights, especially about the issue of legal capacity and related involuntary care.” Roberto Mezzina Roberto Mezzina is the Chair of IMHCN and the director of the Dipartimento di … Read more

Transformation of Mental Health Services in West Wales

  Hywel Dda University Health Board has been working to transform their mental health system. For the last two years they have been developing a community based service, drawing on some of the experience of a twinned service in Trieste. Italy. IMHCN provided facilitated support to the formal twinning collaboration between the two Mental Health … Read more

Active citizenship and empowerment in community mental health:  Participative innovations in France and abroad

WHOCC INTERNATIONAL MEETING 29 and 30 MARCH 2018 LILLE, FRANCE «Active citizenship and empowerment in community mental health:  Participative innovations in France and abroad» The 5th international meeting of the WHO-Collaborating Centre of Lille extends an invitation to two days of debate and exchange on how to continue enhancing the empowerment of mental health service … Read more

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