Finally GFCMH publication has been ultimated and contains a landscape of best practices in mental health care and a selectionof the most relevant contributions presented during the previous meetings (Geneva, Jakarta, Entebbe, Havana) in the last three years.
Thanks to the collaboration with Basic Needs, a mental health consumer meeting
will be held in Accra (West Africa) on 18th-21th April.
The title of the conference is “Increasing the role of Service Users in Community Mental Health” Conference programme Accra Final Report
Judi Chamberlin, who died in January at age 65, was a civil rights hero from a civil rights movement you may have never heard of. She took her inspiration from the heroes of other civil rights movements to start something she liked to call Mad Pride — a movement for the rights and dignity of people with mental illness.
GFCMH workshop held in Bangalore last 14th November 2009 run succesfully!
The workshop in Bangalore “The role of consumers in mental health care” within the context of the World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation 10th World Congress has been presented. Experiences of consumers groups in a sample of lower-middle-income countries (Nepal, Kenya, Tanzania, India ) have been presented and discussed. The role of consumers in relation to countries’ mental health care system has been highlighted. Suggestions has been given on how consumers can contribute to delivery on mental health care.
It’s a volutary non-profit organization of social promotion that wants to promote in Italy and abroad human rights, collaboration among peoples and cultures, with special attention to the care of children and socially vulnerable groups.
Psychologists for Human Rights group work in periphery of Gaza (Jabalia Refugee Camp) proposing an intervention, training and action-research program with the following objectives:
•Working on children trauma using theatre, circus and narrative tools.
• Start to train local health workers in using clinical and artistic-experiential techniques.
• Involve the community (religious authorities, intellectuals, teachers, families and opinion leaders)
• Support economically ,through funds and conjoint projects, one of Emergency and Trauma Centres of Gaza.
The number of clinical trials has steadily increased in recent years and the results of these trials will impact the health of people in a significant way. Clear understanding of the ethical principles involved in clinical trials, particularly on the aspect of recruitment of subjects is an essential and important issue.
View and read the petition http://www.fairdrugs.org/
Visit this page to find out more about it and to submit your suggestions. Please if you have some more material please send us and we will publish on gfcmh website
For this occasion Susan Keter, the chair person of Users and Survisors of Psychiatry in Kenya ( http://www.uspkenya.com/index.htm ), kindly sent us some material related to this day.
In October, there was the celebration of the World Mental Health Day (http://www.wfmh.org/ 02WFMHDay08.htm) and, in the same day the launch of mhGAP, the WHO’s new flagship program for mental health
Two new articles have been submitted by Global Forum for Community Mental Health participant, Dejan Stevanovic, who writes and co-ordinates a Mental Health News Letter in Macedonia. The articles also contain links to other relevant websites concerned with mental health issues in this region. Please either go to Experiences or click on links below to read the articles:
