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11.-15.06.07: Next project meeting in Maastricht with a conference on 15.06.

'Education and training programs for users to participate in mental health care'
Conference in cooperation with the University Maastricht, IGPB and RIAGG.
Friday 15juni 2007
Afrika Centrum, Rijksweg 15, Cadier en Keer

Program
10.15 -10.45
EX-IN: basic training module for users to work in mental health care (Jörg Utschakowski)
10.45- 11.15
Module Hearing Voices (Dr. Sandra Escher)
11.15.11.30
Final report of a RIAGG research project with an expert group voice hearers. (Drs. Dirk Corstens)
11.30.11.45
How valuable is the subjective expérience in mental health care (Prof. Dr. Marius Romme)
11.45-12.15
The Dutch situation (J. Knooren)
12.15-12.30
Discussion (Dr. Harrie van Haaster)

14.00.-16.00
Poster presentations
Posters of the of the education modules that will help to integrate user participation in Mental Health Care.

Peer advocacy (Jörg Utschakowski, Bremen)
Trialoque (Dr. Thomas Bock & Anja Rieth, Hamburg)
Independent peer-advocay in mental health (Prof. Siri Blesvick Christine Rosenqvist, Oslo)
Recovery and Chronicity (Lotta Pittuco, Alain Topor& Marit Borg, Stockholm)
Empowering in theory and practice (Petra Videmšek and Mojka Urek, Ljubljana)
Planning and support in crisis (Prof.Mervyn Morris, Alan Rowland, Birmingham)

ex_in_maastricht_conference.pdf

UCE Birmingham Conference / Book Launch
Friday February 2nd 2007 UCE Birmingham, Westbourne Campus

Broadening our Horizons
Experience and Innovation from Europe

With an opening address by Dr Benedetto Saraceno
Director of Department of Mental Health and Substance Misuse, WHO

This conference brings together expertise from across Europe, aimed at supporting people from all areas of experience who want to develop innovative and participative approaches in their work and organisation.

Presentations include:

• Thomas Bock, on ‘Trialog Seminars’
• Laila Gentzel, book launch: ‘Network Contracts – A tool for Safe Recovery’

Workshops include:

• Germany: Thomas Bock and Anja Rieth, Jörg Utschakowski
• Netherlands: Harrie Van Haaster
• Norway: Christian Aamodt, Siri Blesvik, Marit Borg, Christina Rosenqvist
• Slovenia: Nika Cigoj, Petra Videmsek, Mojca Urek
• Sweden: Fabio Pittuco, Lotta Pittuco, Ami Rohnitz, Alain Topor

For application forms and further information
please contact Dawn McCarrick on 0121 331 7151
or dawn.mccarrick@uce.ac.uk
Conference to be held at Westbourne Campus,
Westbourne Road Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 3TN
UCE Birmingham Conference / Book Launch
Friday February 2nd 2007 UCE Birmingham, Westbourne Campus

Here you can view and hear the speakers

Broadening_Our_Horizons_Flyer.pdf

Minute of the 3rd EX-IN partner-meeting 25th – 28th of June in Stockholm

PARTICIPANTS: Lotta Pittuco, Fabio Pittuco, Petra Hohn; Stockholms läns sjukvardsomrade, Sweden; Laila Gentzel, Sweden; Ami Rohnitz , RSMH, Sweden; Siri Blesvik, Christine Rosenqvist; OUC, Norway; Mervyn Morris, UCE, United Kingdom; Stewart Hendry, Change, United Kingdom; Harrie van Haaster, igpb, Netherlands; Sandra Escher, UM, Netherlands; Petra Videmsek, UL, Slovenia; Anja Rieth, Gyöngyver Sielaff, Thomas Bock, UKE, Germany; Jörg Utschakowski, Initiative, Germany

TOPICS
On the conference the following topics were presented and discussed:

Already existing qualifications for experienced were presented:
The TOET- course in the Netherlands
The 100hrs basic course in Bremen
The training course for service users and professionals led by Change in Birmingham
The 7-weeks course for users are hired as co-workers in municipal services in Baerum, Norway

Preconditions
The final draft of the description of preconditions to attend the basic and specialised courses has been elaborated.

Modules
The final module drafts have been presented and discussed.
The order will be:
Basic Modules
Empowerment
Experience and participation
Recovey
Trialog
Specific Modules
Peer advocacy
Assessment
Teaching and supporting
Voice hearing
Health promotion
The final versions will be written till the next meeting. The length (hours) has to be adjusted.

Evaluation
A scheme for the evaluation of the modules has been presented. It will be used by all partners, which will test modules.

Next meeting
The next EX-IN partner meeting will be in Ljubljana on the 10th – 13th of October 2006.

[Oslo 22.-25.02.2006] All partners participated in the meeting. Additionally we were happy to welcome representatives of the national Swedish mental health self-help groups. The Norwegian Nordisk Selfhelp Forum declared their withdrawal as a full, official partner in the project. They will keep in touch with EX-IN, will supervise the project and will support the dissemination in Norway.

The central topics of this partner meeting have been:
- European and national demands for the accreditation of the ex-in training
- Overall objectives for the ex-in course (preconditions, gained knowledge, skills and competences, outcomes
- Presentation of the module drafts
- Interactive games
- Discussion of the consequences of professionalisation of mental health experienced people

The next partner-meeting will take place in Stockholm in June.

[Magdeburg 22.-24.06.2006] In June 2006 Jörg Utschakowski will hold a talk on the qualification of user involvement during the annual meeting of the Dachverband Gemeindepsychiatrie e.V. in Magdeburg, Germany.

Link to Dachverband Gemeindepsychiatrie

[Bremen 15.10.05] Next project meetings will be held in Oslo in February 2006 (22.-26.02.06) and in Stockholm in June 2006.

[Bremen 12.-15.10.05] Kick-off meeting of all EX-IN partners in Bremen. Alltogether 14 participants from the 10 Norwegian, Swedish, Slovenian, Dutch, English and German partner institutions had their first international meeting in Bremen. During three days, partners discussed working plans, basics and main content issues as well as dissemination strategies. Jörg Utschakowski, the german project coordinator from FOKUS (Initiative zur sozialen Rehabilitation, Bremen), as well as all partner participants were welcomed by Karin Röpke, the minister of health and social affairs of Bremen, in the ancient town hall.

See press releases for further informations

[Bonn 29.09.05] Klaus Fahle, the head of the national EU agency, and Sven Bechtolf, general manager of the Initiative zur sozialen Rehabilitation, during contract signing in Bonn on 29th of septembre. The project start is the 1st of octobre 2005 and project duration is 24 months.