The Project Partnership is composed of 9
partner.
The Italian members (4 partners) have been
identified taking into account the need to represent all the segments
that cooperate in providing specific psychiatric services.
ISS - Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italian
National Institute of Health) – it is the project promoter, because
institutional interface both for specific scientific aspects and for its
strategic role in the promotion of policies, including the promotion of
the human resources quality in this sector through the training and
upgrading of NHS (National Health System) staff. This choice helps to
ensure scientific credibility, maximum transferability at both European
and international level and the sustainability of the project in the
health sector. Website: www.iss.it
DSM – Dipartimento di Salute Mentale ASL RMA
(Department of Mental Health of the Rome A ASL - a local public agency in
Rome - it is a public
institutional interface and key actor of the National Health System for
the management of the mental health system and the mental health services
and facilities. It ensures the availability of initial data in order to
analyze context and needs; the validation of the vocational profile to be
defined; the hoped-for results and the follow-up of the project and of
the possible sharing of models and tools at national level. Website:
www.asl-rma.rm.it
Consorzio UNISAN – it is a consortium of social
oriented firms and an agency of training in the mental health sector. It
has been involved as key actor in the management of psychiatric
residential care communities and as promoter of the action and of the
training products. Thanks to the collaboration of UNISAN it is possible
to work closely with the different categories of professionals to be
analysed and to carry out research in the field, the testing and
validation of models, products and intermediate and final tools and the
sharing of expected results and their possible follow-up. Website:
www.unisan.it
CHI onlus (Cultural Human Improvement)- NGO that
has a leading role in the coordination and scientific support of the
project. Thanks to the know-how of its researchers, its presence will
help to carry out and develop research activities (definition of research
tools, data collection and analysis, report and support providing for
trans-national partnership coordination), the testing and validation of
results and the projects’ dissemination and divulgation activities.
Website: www.chionlus.org
The choice of foreign partners was made taking
into account 2 fundamental factors: existence – in their Countries - of
psychiatric residential care facilities or services; existence of
national programmes for the support of this kind of mental health care.
It has particular relevance the choice to
include in the partnership two agencies from Eastern EU Countries, which
offer the possibility to verify and apply the project’s results and
products in areas where the transition to community-based mental health
care services has not been accomplished yet, in spite of the recent
reforms of the NHS that are promoting training and upgrading of human
resources involved in the field of mental health.
EPAPSY (Scientific Association for Regional
Development and Mental Health - a partner belonging to a country of the
Mediterranean area (Greece) that thanks to the quantity and quality of
recent experiences in specific training activities for the sector, can
represent a reference point of good practises that can be adopted and
integrated into the EU context. Another qualifying element of the Greek
partner EPAPSY, is its close ties with the HAMLET Trust in London, an
international network of organizations providing mental health services
and cooperating in projects for research on the divisional problems and
for the development of specific training. Website: www.epapsy.org
SIC (Sociālās integrācijas
centrs) - is the only agency offering in Latvia possibility to
disadvantaged people to study and receive social, psychological and
medical care. It offers vocational training and psychosocial
rehabilitation programs and provide update certifications and labour
market oriented. Website: www.sic.gov.lv
CMHCD (Centre for Mental Health Care
Development) - NGO that focuses on helping reform and develop mental
health care in the Czech Republic. its aims are to build a plan of the process of MH care reform and
description of tasks demanded by the reform; initiating the creation of a
new concept of MH care; explaining to professionals, users, and state
officials at all levels the need for a change, the character of the new
system and the role of responsible bodies in it; creating specific models
of regional network of networked community services and providing
training and educational programs to service providers and users.
Website: www.cmhcd.cz
GAMH (Glasgow Association for Mental Health) -
an association formerly created to provide information, services and
support to people with mental health difficulties in Glasgow (UK). At
present, the organisation exists to create services and opportunities for
people who are recovering from mental health problems and their carers.
GAMH has links to a number of other statutory partners and has been
involved in developing some joint service bids, consultation exercises
and supporting the growth of service user involvement.
RINO NOORD (NL) - is the Amsterdam based
national organisation for continuing education and training in the field
of mental health. It is an important specialist training body in the
field of mental health, that cooperates closely with the Dutch Ministry
of Health and carries out research and cooperation projects at European
level (such as the MATRA project in the Czech Republic, that supports
further humanization and de-institutionalisation of mental health care in
the CZ).