Mainstreaming Mental Disability Policies
The objectives of the Mainstreaming Mental Disability Policies Project were threefold:- To build the capacity of people with ID and MHP to interact competently with political and administrative structures;
- To change political and administrative structures responsible for employment and education;
- To spread the idea of mainstreaming mental disability issues.
Results:
The project has published:
- A training material: "Partners for better policies: A manual for mainstreaming."
- A leaflet: "Guidance on the difference between mental health problems and intellectual disabilities"
- Five Assessment Forms to assess the extent to which the relevant authorities are mainstreaming policies and services in the field of:
- Education for people with intellectual disabilities
- Employment for people with intellectual disabilities
- Health Care for people with intellectual disabilities
- Education for people with mental health problems
- Employment for people with mental health problems
- A Guidance Note to explain how to use the five Assessment Forms.
These project results are available in English - French - German - Czech - Estonian - Hungarian - Lithuanian - Latvian - Polish - Slovenian - Slovakian
| Implementation Period | 2004-2006 |
| Funded by | European Commission - Directorate General Employment and Social Affairs |
| Project number | VS/2004/0572 |
| Project coordinators |
Inclusion Europe
The Open Society Institute – Mental Health Initiative
The Global Initiative on Psychiatry
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| Partners |
8 organisations working on intellectual disability:
8 associations working on mental health problems:
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