Movement for global mental health - capacity building resources

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Launch of the Centre for Public Mental Health and inaugural Alan J. Flisher* Memorial Lecture. Click here for details

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Recruiting is beginning for the first full cohort of the Social Aetiology of Mental Illness (SAMI) Training Program. Click here for details

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Follow us on Twitter @ MGMentalHealth

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The Perinatal Mental Health Project as part of the Mental Health and Poverty Project launched a new website and linked their recently produced short film Caring for Mothers onto the site. Click here for the film

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The Movement loses Alan Flisher, a champion of global mental health find out more
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Join in the conversation!
The summaries of the first round of discussion about the Future of the Movement have been posted on the discussion board.
Please read them here and let us know what you think!

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The TAC's latest magazine is devoted to mental health Click here to read

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"NIMH commits to supporting global mental health" click here for more
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A new Facebook Group for the Movement is now set up; you can join up at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=44154737699

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You can submit information and news by clicking here news@globalmentalhealth.org

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Capacity Building Resources

MENTAL HEALTH POLICY AND SERVICE GUIDANCE PACKAGE

http://www.who.int/mental_health/policy/essentialpackage1/en/index.html

WHO has developed a Mental Health Policy and Service Guidance Package to help implement the policy recommendations of the World Health Report 2001- Mental health: New Understanding, New Hope. The package consists of a series of interrelated user-friendly modules designed to address the wide variety of needs and priorities in policy development and service planning. Each module addresses a core aspect of mental health.

Modules

- Mental Health Context.

- Mental Health Policy, Plans and Programmes. Updated version.

- Mental Health Financing.

- Advocacy for Mental Health.

- Quality Improvement for Mental Health.

- Organization of Services for Mental Health.

- Planning and Budgeting to Deliver Services for Mental Health.

- Mental Health Legislation and Human Rights.

- Improving Access and Use of Psychotropic Medicines.

- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Policies and Plans.

- Mental Health Policies and Programmes in the Workplace.