Search results for ‘Subject term:"mental health problems"’ Sort:
Results 1 - 2 of 2
Pathways to policy - developing inclusive mental health policy in Eastern Europe
- Authors:
- BUREAU Jonathan, SHEARS Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 11(4), December 2006, pp.32-35.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
The Hamlet Trust, a UK-based charity, has been working to develop a network of grassroots user-led organisations in central and eastern Europe and central Asia since the early 1990s. The Hamlet Trust's Pathways to Policy programme, launched in 2002, has been helping to improve mental health policies and outcomes for service users by inclusive means, with service users beginning to feel they can influence the policy environment. This article looks at the work of the Hamlet Trust, and uses the case study of Albania to illustrate how the Pathways to Policy programme is getting results.
From Kerala to Kyrgyzstan
- Authors:
- CUTLER Paul, HAYWARD Robert, MAKENBAEVA Burul
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, November 2006, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Over the last four years the UK-based international mental health charity InterAction has worked with partners in Eastern Europe to develop and research ways for grassroots activists to influence policy development through practice projects. The work has been guided by the policy as process model, which was developed originally for international work with people who experienced disempowerment and disadvantage through poverty and deprivation. The authors describe their work in Eastern Europe, and also outline findings of a research project to evaluate the usefulness of the policy as process model to mental health activists working at grassroots level. The authors also look at how they have been use the model in areas of the UK.