Forwarded message from Public health foundation

Dear All,

Sangath, Goa is offering a two week course titled 'Leadership in Mental Health', in collaboration with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ,UK,  Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF) Chennai , India, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and Centre for International Mental Health, University of Melbourne , Australia .
 
This course has been designed to equip participants in the methods to develop and scale up interventions for people with mental disorders in communities, based on a population model (i.e. to achieve maximum coverage in an administrative unit such as a district). 
  
The course is designed to build capacity to meet the goals of the Movement for Global Mental Health (www.globalmentalhealth.org) and the Lancet series on global mental health 2007. 
  
For the last two years participants of this course consisted of mental health professionals, general physicians, policy makers, representatives of funding agencies, humanitarian agency workers, NGO staff, epidemiologists, anthropologists and members of the user community. 
  
The course is structured in three parts, 
and participants will expect to learn the following: 
Part 1: Why scale up coverage of effective and affordable care for mental disorders? 
Part 2: How to scale up coverage for specific mental disorders? 
Part 3: the leadership skills for scaling up 
 
The course is from 22nd November 2010 to 3rd December 2010 in Goa, India.
It is not possible for me to attach the brochure on e-group, but this can be accessed on websitehttp://www.sangath.com 

with warm regards,
Rahul R. Shidhaye
M.D.(Psy) M.H.S.(Mental Health)
Faculty
Public Health Foundation of India
Mobile: 09848520340

Recovery - the US perspective

In September 2009, Gene Johnson, President of Recovery Innovations in Arizona, delivered a lecture on recovery from the US perspective.

The lecture is divided up into sections and the videos are available below.

Jed Boardman on recovery - the context of the lecture

Implementing recovery in mental health a US perspective: Part 1: What is recovery?

Implementing recovery in mental health a US perspective: Part 2: Recovery beliefs

Implementing recovery in mental health a US perspective: Part 3: Peer to peer support

Implementing recovery in mental health a US perspective: Part 4: Training peers

Implementing recovery in mental health a US perspective: Part 5: Housing, hospitalisation

Implementing recovery in mental health a US perspective: Responses by a Service User and a Manager

Jeanette Harding and Steve Shrubb

Implementing recovery in mental health a US perspective: Closing remarks, mistakes and expectations

Geoff Shepherd, Sainsbury Centre

We are in the information age. Information is now our most precious resource, limited only by the constraints of human intelligence, innovation and imagination.

However, like most resources, it is not shared equally. I would like to see full and free sharing of information and knowledge, across all sectors, disciplines and borders, guided by the shared values and universal language of human rights.

This would enable the progress, development and transformations necessary, in such fields as science, medicine and technology, to overcome our greatest challenges and make this world a better place for all.

All progress is accelerated through greater sharing – of ideas, resources, technology and wealth - and sharing is fostered through an appreciation of our interdependence and of how much we have in common.

In 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted. The shared values and responsibilities it enshrines, detail not just the rights vital to human dignity and well-being, but the means by which we can overcome even the most daunting challenges of the 21st century.

The only way we can realistically create and adopt solutions to tackle the crises of climate change, food insecurity, and lack of access to healthcare, is by working together through inclusive and transparent means.

Article 19 of the Universal Declaration includes the right "to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." In our lifetime, science and technology have transformed what the enjoyment of this right to information requires.

In 2007, less than one-fifth of the world's people had access to the Internet, meaning that the majority remain unable to exercise their fundamental right to information, resulting in deprivations of many other kinds.

Access is improving, however. While computer ownership remains very low in the world's least developed countries, penetration of mobile phones is increasing rapidly. In Africa, for example, mobile phone penetration is now at 37 per cent. By 2012, it is expected to climb to more than 60 per cent.

A significant proportion of the world's population is going to be able to take part in the global sharing of ideas and solutions by accessing email and knowledge-sharing platforms on their mobile phones.

To ensure the full realisation of human rights for all, each community's unique contributions are needed. Collaboration and knowledge sharing between communities, such as science, technology and medicine, is also essential, both within countries and beyond international borders.

A human rights framework improves policy coherence across sectors and disciplines. It is vital that governments do what they can to foster increased bridge-building and exchange of ideas.

Benefits will be seen throughout all sectors and in relation to all of our greatest challenges:

• The rapid transfer of green technologies to developing countries so that water distillation, solar-powered cooking, electricity generation, advances in battery technologies for more efficient and affordable electric cars, and many other sustainable development needs, can be adequately and equitably addressed.
• By protecting free thought and exchange, governments are more likely to retain their educated professionals, such as health workers that are now haemorrhaging from countries where they are so desperately needed.
• The cautious scepticism of the scientific community merged with the vision and activism of the human rights community is enabling the evolution of climate science into the concept of climate justice: recognising that global warming is caused by human behaviour in the developed part of the world, and impacts severely on the vulnerable life chances of those in poor countries who have not contributed to the problem. January saw the launch of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition, aimed at facilitating collaboration among scientific organisations on questions of human rights. It is no exaggeration to say that everyone stands to benefit from such a project.

Mary Robinson, president of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative

TNPSYNET.COM  will be the new online home for mental health professionals campaigning towards improvement of mental health care systems in Tamilnadu. The site combines a cutting-edge social networking platform, established multimedia toolkits and a hub for online advocacy resources. The site aims to bring together a range of professionals ( Trainees, Psychiatrists, Social workers, Nurses, Academicians, researchers, Management experts and campaigners ) and serivce organisations to share experiences, successes and challenges, while providing numerous tools to assist in teaching, organizing and conducting research, creating training resources, strategy development, campaign development and implementation.

 TNPSYNET establishes a much-needed online space of all levels – from international NGOs, to individual grassroots activists – to work together creatively through new and established technologies, methods and mediums towards a fairer and more just world for all. Together, we are… LOUDER!

We succeed when we work together…

We are community of people, passionate about social change, who are saying ‘we can make a difference’.

This is indeed  a unique and challenging project based on a very simple idea - that we all have the power of our own actions, but that none of us on our own can change the world, not governments, not businesses, not charities. We succeed when we work together

TNPSYNET Network helps individuals and organisations to connect together.  We provide spaces - at ‘real life events’ and on line - in which people can collaborate with others across the boundaries that divide us and commit their energy to new ideas and new ways of working that will change the world.

Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity

Bill Gates , 2007