Zur Liste der Partner mit Beschreibung

Initiative zur sozialen Rehabilitation e.V. Bremen, Germany	Instituut voor Gebruikersparticipatie en Beleid Amsterdam, Netherlands
Baerum Komune, Norway	University of Central England at Birmingham
C.H.A.N.G.E. Birmingham, England	Maastricht University Maastricht, Netherlands
Psychiatry South Stockholm Health Care Provision Stockholm, Sweden	Universitätsklinik Hamburg Eppendorf Germany
University of Ljubljana Ljubljana, Slovenia	Oslo University College Oslo, Norway

Jörg Utschakowski
-Coordinator-

The Initiative zur sozialen Rehabilitation e.V. was founded in 1982 as an alternative to long term hospitalisation of psychiatric patients. Today it supports app. 250 mentally disabled, mentally ill and alcohol or drug addicted people in assisted living and assertive outreach. Futher more the Initiative...e.V offers with the journal „Irrturm“ a PR-organ for people with mental health experiences. With the charity companies „Gesellschaft für Integrative Beschäftigung mbH“ and the „comeback gGmbH" the Initiative...e.V. provides a wide range of rehabilitation-, integration-, activity and employment-offers. Through the shareholding on the „Gesellschaft für ambulante psychiatrische Dienste“ the Initiative...e.V. is also engaged in the field of community based mental health nursing „Sociotherapy“ and integrated care.

F.O.K.U.S. is a project of the Initiative zur sozialen Rehabilitation e.V. F.O.K.U.S. is a training provider, which reverts to 25 years of practical experiences with community based mental health care and user involvement.
In the centre of the qualification offers, further training, education and consulting are:

- support of services and processes which avoid or shorten in-patient treatment and care
- involvement of users/experienced people
- community-orientation and networking

FOKUS qualifies and trains mental health professionals. Through the work-group EXPA ( expert-partnership) experts by experience are involved in the development and delivery of all measures.

Web: Link to the Initiative website
Web: Link to the F.O.K.U.S. website

eMail:fokus@initiative-zur-sozialen-rehabilitation.de

Dr. Harrie van Haaster

IGPB is an independent agency for research, development and training, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We take experiences of people who are, were or have been on the receiving end of services as our starting point, and often as the sole perspective of our approach. Involvement of people on the receiving end (for the remainder of this outline we will use the term 'users') in all phases of a project is a very important principle of our work.

Web: Link to the IGPB website

eMail: igpb@igpb.nl

Olav Elvemo
Christian Aamodt

Web: Link to the Baerum website

eMail: christian.aamodt@baerum.kommune.no

Mervyn Morris

Web: Link to the UCE website

eMail: mervyn.morris@uce.ac.uk

Alan Rowland

Sandra Escher

The university of Maastricht is a rather young and fast growing university founded 25 years ago. Last year it was rated as the best university in Holland. Teaching is mostly done in problems solving modules. Participation is from the Dept. Psychiatry and Neuropsychology. The project is linked to the social psychiatric assumptions that mental health problems are a reaction to problems or trauma in daily life that people cannot cope with. The hearing voices approach is based on this assumption. Head of the department is Prof.dr. Jim van Os, who is a psychiatrist, epidemiologist. His research shows that experiences such as hearing voices are apparent in the normal population but are also influenced by factors in the environment.

Web: Link to the University's website

eMail: a.escher@skynet.be

From left to right:
Fabio Pittuco
Filipe Costa
Petra Hohn
Lotta Pittuco

Psychiatry South is an organization with 650 employees with various types of education who are to offer psychiatric care to the population in six of Stockholm's southern districts with a total of approximately 275 000 inhabitants. The emphasis of all treatment work is on outpatient services. An endeavour is to meet people with mental problems with respect, on their home ground, in their own context. Our organization is constructed so as to facilitate contact between the consumers (patients, their families and friends), our staff and all other caregivers and starts out from the point of view that recovery from severe mental disorder is possible. All our work is community based and operates according to psychiatry's 'holy' principles of continuity, accessibility and overall view. Our unit for staff qualification and development employs people with lived experience as teachers in our higher university courses which are carried out together with Karolinska Institut.

Dr. Thomas Bock

Web: Link to UKE website
Web: Link to Irre menschlich e.V. website

Petra Videmsek

Faculty of Social Work aims for the development and dissemination of theoretical concepts, models and methods of social work which would contribute to establishment of fundamental social values and goals such as: provision of quality of life for individuals, families and groups of the population, social justice, human dignity and equal opportunities; promotion of solidarity and social integration, prevention of poverty and social exclusion.

Web: Link to the University's website

Siri Blesvik
Christine Rosenqvist

Oslo University College (OUC)provides Norway's largest range of professional higher education programmes. OUC is a dynamic institution based on strong traditions. We have a tradition for a tutorial system that ensures the students' progress through their studies in a supportive environment. We offer around 50 study programmes and a wide range of subject courses.

The Faculty of Nursing is part of Oslo University College, and is today Norway's largest institution for nursing education, with approximately 1500 students and 130 teaching staff

Web: Link to OUC website
Web: Link to the faculty's website

eMail: Siri.Blesvik@su.hio.no