What We Do, Experience & Expertise

Our members have practical experience in the following:

  1. Promoting and advocating for Human Rights
    • identify and exposing bad practices, laws, policies, services, treatments
    • promoting good practices
  2. Policy formulation
    • assessment of mental health needs for individuals and populations
    • advocating for community mental health national policies
    • contents of a community mental health national policy
    • examples of best practice in policies
    • help in formulating national mental health policies
    • implementing national mental health policies
  3. Community mental health system
    • local application of a whole system approach
    • role of municipalities and local elected politicians
    • citizens involvement
    • mental health local council development
    • a whole life whole system, wellbeing approach
  4. Service development
    • providing a mental health service reviews
    • undertaking services redesign and implementation of good practices
    • changing psychiatric institutions
    • management of change
    • promoting a culture of community mental health
    • providing evidence based practice in a community mental health holistic and comprehensive service system including specialised services
  5. Training and education
    • promoting a recovery oriented services
    • promoting positive thinking in community mental health, recovery and social inclusion
    • change the thinking, change the practice toward a community mental health and evidence based approach.
    • providing technical training in service components, clinical interventions
  6. Users and carers involvement
    • promoting the involvement and valuing the contribution of users and carers in policy formulation, service development, legislation and practices
    • promoting the participation of users and carers in the governance of the design, planning and implementation and monitoring of mental health services.
    • assisting the development of user and carer organizations
    • support and value the users and carers experience in training and education
    • providing user developed training methods and materials
    • promote the employment through practical examples of service users in providing mental health services (peer support workers)
  7. Recovery approaches
    • promoting the recovery concept and its application to services
    • providing recovery based practices and training material
  8. Public education and mental health promotion
    • tackling discrimination, misunderstanding and myths amongst the public
    • promoting the concept of well being for an individual
    • providing training in a community common purpose approach to tackle social exclusion and stigma
  9. Research
    • promoting research in community mental health services and recovery

The IMHCN can provide this expertise to organisations and individuals.

For more information on how this can be available to you, please contact the IMHCN Secretary.

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