You can have a look here and also check this link to different translation of the booklet “My hero is you”. Here is the agenda: 2 June 2021 — Online — Putting Lived Experience at the Heart of Policy and Practice: Conversations on Mental Health by the Wellcome Trust 7 June 2021 — Online — Positioning Local Innovation as a Basis for Learning …
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Application open for annual Mental Health in Complex Emergencies course Over the past 16 years, the IIHA has run a popular 12-day course for mental health professionals. We will now be offering a distance learning course covering similar materials over a 15-week semester. This is a training course for mental health professionals and program staff …
Over the past 16 years, the IIHA has run a popular 12-day course for mental health professionals. We will now be offering a distance learning course covering similar materials over a 15-week semester. This is a training course for mental health professionals and program staff who wish to establish mental health or psychosocial programs in …
Application open for annual Mental Health in Complex Emergencies course Read More »
In June we will talk about mental health in African settings -you are welcome to join! No costs or other strings attached (except that most of it is in French – but with translation)
Guest editorial for the newsletter of INTERNATIONAL HEALTH POLICIES The first anniversary of the C-thing has not gone unnoticed. Anniversaries provide moments to take stock, look back and think about what might come next. Last Spring, the early enthusiasm for transformational change was more tangible in the air than aerosols -but now, on our way …
interesting editorial about the local silencing of culture and its impact on mental health policy in Brazil, and the epistemic alienation created by globally defined self-assessments tools in Chile. In this editorial for BMJ Global Mental Health, Cristian Montenegro and Francisco Ortega aim to “unsettle and expand the relatively circumscribed place given to culture and …
Dear all There is little to add to all the things said about 2020. Perhaps just to note that it did not go unnoticed. It was a year that we lived more consciously than ever. From day to day, from curfew to new Corona statistics, from lockdowns to travel restrictions, moving from one ‘bubble’ to …
C4C participated in the final conference of COA (COA is short for Centraal Orgaan opvang asielzoekers, in English: the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers – on the project “Participation Eritreans: taking cultural differences into account”. Willem van de Put presented on the ‘refugee experience’. Wonderful day – and beautiful drawings! On the page of …
Supporting Migrant Women in Brussels to Regain Control over their Lives AbstractIn Brussels, many migrant women without legal status have no or limited access to health care and other basic services. Their access to descent care is mainly hampered by a lack of information, limited fnancial resources and poor experiences in the past. Three non-governmental …
Our C4C work published in Community Mental Health Journal Read More »
The debate on Corona and the measures taken by governments is spinning out of control. We are concerned about how the increase of emotions – understandable as they are in the midst of this crisis – becomes a real barrier for the discussion that we really need right now. The question about how one values …
