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PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS: 

  • Perinatal mental health intervention, which includes the promotion of mother-baby hospitalisations for women with acute symptoms during pregnancy and postpartum.
  • Mental health rehabilitation and social and community reintegration of adolescents and young people with severe mental disorders and disruptive behaviours within the justice system.
  • Prison Psychiatry Care for individuals deprived of liberty with mental health challenges.
  • Services that help individuals with psychosocial disabilities transition to autonomous living, promoting long-term recovery.
  • Initiatives that support housing, employment, and social reintegration for marginalized individuals with mental health challenges.
  • Mental health interventions for children exposed to violence or abuse, with a focus on early support and protection.
  • Discussions and reflections on mental health care for vulnerable populations, exploring sustainable and scalable models of care.
  • Projects to improve emotional well-being in schools.

 

📚 Recommended Reading List:

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This reading list contains links to EU-Commission documents on the “comprehensive approach to mental health”, overarching European initiative which is structured around three core principles: prevention, access to quality and affordable care, and reintegration into society after recovery. The EU-PROMENS, capacity building in mental health project represents one of the 20 flagships and is implemented through a tripartite consortium from GFA, TRIMBOS and MHE.

Please find in the following links to European country profiles, guidelines from World Health Organization, especially focused on Community Mental Health services for your convenience and inspiration. Participating in the EU-PROMENS Exchange Programme you will gain an overview about selected community mental health services guided by one of EU-PROMENS six partner institutions in Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, Spain and the Netherlands. Programmes for these exchanges were carefully developed in 2024 by EU-PROMENS multidisciplinary team together with six experienced institutions (hubs), you can find links to all these institutions below.

Sustainability: To make this exchange programme a sustainable endeavour, we invite all participants to engage in a dedicated community of practice on the European platform for adult learning - EPALE. Once registered on this free platform, you have access to a variety of different learning offers from various other projects from all over Europe too. 

Here is the reading list, click on the title to collapse:

EU - Commission website: Comprehensive approach to mental health

A comprehensive approach to mental health - European Commission (europa.eu)

EU - Commission best practices portal

Best practices Portal (europa.eu)

European member states health systems country data profiles - including mental health (2023)

Hope Country profiles - Hope

Country profiles focused on mental health reform via European Joint Action Ja-IMPLEMENTAL including best practices on suicide prevention and mental health country reform status

Country Profiles – JA ImpleMENTAL (ja-implemental.eu)

WHO Resolutions on mental health

WHO MiNDbank - A database of resources covering mental health substance abuse disability general health human rights and development

EU-PROMENS Community of Practice through the EPALE platform

EU-PROMENS Community of Practice

OECD 2021 Benchmark for Mental Health Systems

A New Benchmark for Mental Health Systems | OECD

2023 Mapping of over 800 services and initiatives from Culture for Health initiative - all over Europe

Projects - Cultureforhealth.eu

WHO website with publications and guidelines on Community mental health services available in many languages

Guidance on community mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches (who.int)

Nature paper on Grand challenges in Global Mental health 2011

Grand challenges in global mental health - PMC (nih.gov)

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the European Commission website (CRPD ratified by EU in 2010)

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - European Commission

Mental Health Europe Glossary

Mental Health Europe releases 'Mental Health: The Power of Language' – A glossary of terms and words - Mental Health Europe

WHO-International classification of diseases chapter V

ICD-10 Version:2019 (who.int)

Best practices portal of the European Union Drugs Agency

Best practice portal | www.euda.europa.eu

European Alliance against Depression

European Alliance Against Depression - About (eaad.net)

European health technology Assessment

Home - EUnetHTA

EU-PROMENS HUB Partner in Spain

Who we are | The Foundation | Recerca Sant Joan de Déu (sjdrecerca.org)

EU-PROMENS HUB Partner in Austria

Aktuelles - pro mente OÖ (pmooe.at)

EU-PROMENS HUB Partner in Czech Republic National Institute of Mental Health

National Institute of Mental Health (nudz.cz)

EU-PROMENS HUB Partner in Croatia School of Medicine

Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine – School of Medicine (unizg.hr)

EU-PROMENS HUB Partner in Finland

Valo-Valmennusyhdistys ry

EU-PROMENS HUB Partner in Netherlands

Reinier van Arkel

 

TENTATIVE PROGRAMME
Spain, Barcelona: 03 February - 16 May 2025
3 February 2025 at 09:00 — 16 May 2025 at 18:00
INTEGRATED MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT AND REHABILITATION PROGRAMMES IN CATALONIA
  • Group 1: 03.02.2025 - 14.02.2025
  • Group 2: 03.03.2025 - 14.03.2025
  • Group 3: 05.05.2025 - 16.05.2025 
DAY 1

Context Presentation

  • Welcome, round of introduction and housekeeping 
  • Introduction Catalunia Context 
  • EU-PROMENS Quality Criteria
  • Co-creation conclusive workshop

Programme presentation

  • Presenting each day of the programme    
  • Selection of small groups                                                                                   
  • Collecting feedback and expectations from participants
DAY 2

Mental health care in the perinatal stage.

  • Programs addressing women who have been referred from Primary Care (for women with acute mental health problems during pregnancy and postpartum period).
  • Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) program that provides care and treatment for women with complex mental health needs and supports the developing relationship between parent and baby. 
DAY 3

Prison health services for adolescents

  • Prison health services of the Therapeutic coexistence unit specialised in the care and intensive treatment of adolescents (boys and girls aged 14 to 21, with mental health problems and addctions of high clinical, social and family complexity)

Outpatient care program in mental health and addictions in the Educational Centers of the Department of Justice

  • Outpatient care program in mental health and addictions (ESMIA) 
DAY 4

Support for people under a regime of internment in private penitentiary centres in Catalonia

  • Acute, sub-acute, intensive rehabilitation, preventive early care unit, nursing inter-consultation, and ambulatory care service.
DAY 5

Autonomous Living Support Program

  • Visit the apartments of the Autonomous Living Support Program.
DAY 6 (Saturday)

Social and community inclusion program.

  • Social and community inclusion program: Visit and leisure activity shared with professionals and people served in the service. small groups practice observation.
DAY 7

Child Protection

  • The Support for the Treatment of Abused Children Team.
  • The program for boys and girls who witness violence.
  • Promoting the recovery of children and adolescents with mental disorders. Supporting and facilitating their return to their social and living environment while avoiding stigmatisation and social exclusion.
  • Program for promoting the emotional well-being of adolescents and young people and their environment (schools, families, and society) to prevent the onset of mental health problems
DAY 8

 Care for refugees

  • Facility to receive people in situations of social exclusion and/or vulnerability with integrated mental health support
DAY 9

Promotion of mental health

  • Exploring mental health promotion activities in Catalonia
DAY 10

Groups Activities - Shadowing programmes

  1. G1: Intervention and support project for adults with autism that aims to define a person-centred model of care.
  2. G2: Care for the immigrant population with mental health issues related to the migration experience
  3. G3: Mental health care for the homeless.
  4. G4: TBD
DAY 11

Conclusive Hybrid Workshop

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