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"Mental Health Europe provides a network to enable close personal contacts, an exchange of ideas and co-operation throughout Europe and last but not least an important platform against discrimination and exclusion for people with mental health problems" - Inge Schöck, volunteer, Germany.

"Mental Health Europe offers opportunities to share experiences of active intervention practices in mental health care and promotion as well as means of raising public awareness of mental health" - Vangelis Zacharias, Association for the Psychosocial Health of Children and Adolescents, Greece.

"An aim of the patient movement is to become an accepted and integrated part of the mental health movement. To this end, one of the key partners for the patient movement is Mental Health Europe" - Clemens Huitink, European Network of (ex-)Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, Netherlands.

"I joined Mental Health Europe because our missions are complementary: promoting community-based services and the human rights of patients by involving them in decision-making." Nace Kovac, SENT, Slovenian Association for Mental Health.

"Mental Health Europe has enabled us to join a network of European partners with whom we exchange practices for promoting mental health in France, and which therefore allows for the voice of (ex)users of mental health services to be considered in the European Union, especially through the different gatherings and forums." Florence Leroy, Advocacy France.

"As a multidisciplinary movement, Mental Health Europe provides the means for sharing knowledge of effective practice in all countries, by highlighting other cultural approaches to mental health issues and by providing the opportunity for discussion and debate on personal points of view." Inge Schöck, Volunteer, Germany

"Mental Health is on the European political map and Mental Health Europe is one of the key players who have put it there. Service users are people with the unique expertise that comes from direct experience. They, with their advocacy groups, can ensure that scientific knowledge and medical and social care practice are balanced with dignity, human rights and the defeat of stigma in our policy making. It is fundamentally important that the voice of Mental Health Europe is now heard loud and clear." John Bowis, Member of European Parliament, UK.

"Mental Health Europe is an important platform in the civil society and one of the founding members of the WHO European network for users and carers empowerment. Mental Health Europe gives users, carers, professionals and laymen a common ground to stand on, recognising their communalities before their differences in working towards improved mental health of the European population." Hédinn Unnsteinsson, WHO-EURO, Denmark.

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