Mission Statement
The mission of the Global Forum for Community Mental Health is to provide a supportive network for all those interested in promoting community mental health services and care for people with severe mental disorders. This forum will provide a foundation for sharing information, providing mutual support, and a sense of belonging for users, families, providers, and all who are interested in developing community mental health and in shifting mental health care from long term institutions to effective community-based care. The Forum will partner with existing organizations whose mission is in concert with the mission of the Global Forum.
As part of the establishment of the Global Forum for Community Mental Health the Organising Group Members discussed their understanding of community mental health and have included some notes of this discussion here.
During the first year the Forum will establish the initial structure and working relationships. The Forum will also begin disseminating information about community mental health. The following four activities are proposed to begin the work of supporting countries in developing community mental health:
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Regional Thematic Workshops for Low and Middle Income Countries
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Newsletter
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Website
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Thematic Meetings
February 23rd, 2008 at 2:43 am
I will introduce the concept of the Family-Base Mental Health Action (FBMHA) that could be a solution to solve the mental health problem in community. I believe that the FBMHA will be more workable since it uses a process approach to the right target. the FBMHA focus to facilitate to empowerment of the family, so they able to overcome their health problems.
In the FBMHA, all the activity of public health programs are focus to facilitate to empowerment of the family. It means the core of the public health program is family health. In the FBMHA, the program should be focused to:
• the FBMHP base on the functional or process approach
• the target of the FBMHA is family
• the cadre is member of the family
• every member of family is accountable to health status of family
• train family cadre to solve the health problem of his/her family
• empowerment the cadre to help his/her family to get an access on health services
The role’s of the government in development of the FBMHA as follows:
• provide an opportunity and facilitate that family has ability to maintain the member of family healthy
• the community health center, the integrated health post, and the health personnel in village should work base on the family health. It means those entities have close relationship to the every family in their working area. The information system should be developed and implemented base on the health status of family. As a result, the health personnel know exactly condition every family. We should rename the community health center to the family health center and the integrated health post to the family health post.
• the promotion, the prevention and curative program base on the family needs. Subsequently, the health program could solve the health problem that lead to the healthy family and then healthy village.
• Activity of the health personnel have to in the family level, therefore they have to enough facility to reach the family such as: transportation vehicle, supply, promotion aid, audiovisual aid and operational budget.
The concept of FBMHA could work effectively if supported by all stakeholders that are concerned to the mental health.
Dr. Yaslis Ilyas
School of Public Health
University of Indonesia
16424 Depok, Jawa Barat, Indonesia.
yaslis_ilyas@yahoo.com