PROMENPOL Promoting and Protecting Mental Health - Supporting Policy through Integration of Research, Current Approaches and Practice
Funded under the European
Commission's 6th Framework Programme
Leader organisation: German
Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health - Bundesanstalt für
Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin (BAuA).
Duration: 36 months - from January 2007 to December 2009.
PARTNERS
- Mental Health Europe (MHE) - Belgium
- The Rehab Group (Rehab Group) - Ireland
- University of Maastricht(MAAS) - Netherlands
- Forschungsinstitut des Wiener Roten Kreuzes (FRK) - Austria
- EWORX E-Business Services S.A. (EWORX) - Greece
- Estonian-Swedish Mental Health and Suicidology Institute (ERSI) - Estonia
- National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (STAKES) - Finland
BACKGROUND
AIM OF THE THE PROJECT
Working with both specialist and mainstream researchers, stakeholders, networks, professionals, practitioners and representatives organisations PROMENPOL aims to:
- Identify and Re-Package tools for mental health promotion and protection within three contexts - schools, the workplace and residences for older people.
- Produce a systematic and easily navigated knowledge management system populated with useful information, key references and important web links.
- Construct a set of three mental health toolkits tailored to the life span stage of target users and predominant context within which they live their lives i.e. school, work and residences for older people.
- Organise a series of pilot implementation projects to evaluate and review the knowledge base and toolkits.
- Produce a set of multi-sectoral policy principles designed to promote and support more proactive and targeted mental health initiatives in each of the sectors.
- Create sustainable collaboration between the key actors in the project to carry forward the results into the later stages of the project and beyond.
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
PROMENPOL will develop a
multidimensional approach to identifying and classifying effective tools for
promoting mental health across the lifespan in the settings of schools,
workplaces and older peoples' residential homes.
The project consists of three
phases, each of which has its own dissemination mechanism and objectives:
- Phase 1 will conceptualise and characterise the field, build an effective dissemination platform and identify the key policy drivers and imperatives for Mental Health at EU and Member State level.
- Phase 2 will focus upon the preparation of Toolkits, bringing together current good practice, customised to three life stages and three contexts, i.e. school, the workplace and residences for older people and produce a proposal for a "cross-sectoral" mental health policy platform.
- Phase 3 will promote the implementation of pilot projects to review the practicality and usefulness of the toolkits and, based on the feedback from the pilot sites, review and revise the instruments and promote a consensus policy platform on mental health within the EU.
Please click here to download the PROMENPOL flyer.
For more information visit the project website at,www.mentalhealthpromotion.net, or contact Katrin Zardo, Project Manager, at zardo.katrin@baua.bund.de