MHE National Focal Points Training sessions 2009

MHE organised training sessions for its National Focal Points. A National Focal Point is a representative from one of MHE's member organisations in a given country and act as the contact person for MHE and liaise with all the MHE members in its country.

The trainings, organised by MHE, included an update on ongoing developments in the field of mental health and social inclusion policies on the European level and also provided participants with lobbying tools such as how to approach national, regional and local authorities in order to bring forward mental health related issues. Fundraising tools and the use of the media were discussed during the trainings. Another focus of the trainings was also laid on the upcoming European elections taking place in June 2009.

The trainings took place:
22-23 January in Vienna
19-20 February in Athens
12-13 March in Brussels
26-27 March in Copenhagen
23-24 April in Helsinki

The full report on these trainings is available here.

General documents:
Introduction to Mental Health Europe Work Programme 2009 
Introduction to EU Institutions 
Presentation of MHE lobbying campaign for 2009 EP Elections 
Presentation on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Presentation on "How to work with the media?"

Training in Vienna, 22-23 January 2009
Programme
Presentation by Pro Mente Austria on lobbying national/local/regional authorities (In German)
NFP Training Vienna Dachverband presentation 22 January 2009 (in German)

Training in Athens, 19-20 February 2009
Programme 
Presentation by Menelaos Theodoroulakis on lobbying national/local/regional authorities
Presentation by Alexandros Lountzis on the role of the media in mental health
Presentation on mobile psychiatric units in Greece
Presentation by Hristo Dimitrov on media campaign "Raising public awareness at the needs of people with psychiatric disorders"

Training in Brussels, 12-13 March 2009
Programme

Training in Copenhagen, 26-27 March 2009
Programme
Presentation by Per Larsen, EAPN, on how to lobby local/regional/national authorities

Training in Helsinki, 23-24 April 2009
Programme
Presentation by Finnish Association for Mental Health (FAMH) on how to lobby local/regional/national authorities
Description of SKALBES, MHE member
Note by MIND

Other documents related to MHE National Focal Points trainings will be uploaded soon on this webpage