First Person Mental Health Research Group

We attended the conference organized by the ‘Taula de Salut Mental de Granollers i comarca’ composed of 26 organizations among service providers, social agents and institutions of the health region of Vallès Oriental Central and Baix Montseny. We listened to the first-person testimonies of those who have suffered mechanical restraints during hospitalisation. Also the main service providers in the area presented the results of their actions aimed to the Mechanical restraints O goal. There was an opportunity to explore alternatives […]

First Transnational Meeting with all the consortium for the new Erasmus+  project TuTo3 – Peer and Team Support.   Download programme

Different movements of professionals, users and their relatives propose the use of concepts such as recovery or citizenship as tools to change the focus from pathology towards empowerment through the enhancement of strengths and community work. At this table we will try to build a dialogue between people who dedicate their efforts to transforming the mental health care system towards one based on rights and the collective construction of life projects.   Legal capacity and support for the exercise of […]

We participated in the San Juan de Dios Mental Health Strategic Plan Design Workshop where we moderated the working group “Rights, participation and empowerment of people with mental health problems” in which officials from various services in the provinces of San Juan participated. Lleida and Barcelona.

We are part of the team of trainers of the Peer Support specialization course promoted by the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC), the Althaia Foundation and Osonament, with the support of the “La Caixa” Foundation. It has the participation of the San Juan de Dios Health Park, Actively Catalonia, the Catalan Federation of Mental Health Entities in 1st Person – VEUS, and the Emilia Barcelona association. This training is a university course of 15 credits that combines theoretical […]

We have collaborated with the Recovery in Mental Health Monographic by SOM Mental Health 360 with the editorial “The recovery model from the perspective of its protagonists” and the articles “Training of Mental Health professionals from the Recovery Model” and “Implementation of Peer Support Workers in Mental Health“.

We present the new concept of Citizenship as Mental Health to a randomly chosen panel of European citizens. Download presentation.

In this digital meeting we have talked about experiences of peer to peer application in different national and international territories, analyzing the successes achieved, the difficulties and challenges posed by these projects, and the personal experience of participating in them. 

We participate in the Mental Health workshop organized by the Alella town hall, through the Health Promotion, Occupation and Citizenship Office. Our president, Fran Eiroa, closes the conference after 3 days of workshops, colloquia, lectures and the representation of La Balada de Lady Lup starring the companions of the Trifulga dels Futils.   Download the programme.