04 May 2022

Thursday 16th of June 16:30 – 18:00 Central European Time Free webinar Organised by the CARe Network in collaboration with EUCOMS. We explore the concept and the various roles a peer worker can have through the eyes of peer workers in the Czech Republic, Estonia and Hungary. Czech Republic: Michal Kašpar, peer lecturer, journalist; Prague Centre for Mental Health Care ...

03 May 2022

What are the benefits of using a child rights-based approach? And how are these rights currently implemented in youth mental health care across the world? In this webinar, we will focus on two rights in particular: the right to grow up (mentally) healthy and the right to be heard, and thus to be actively involved in policymaking. Hosted by Jens Gigase, with talks by: Ꞝ Ton Liefa...

03 May 2022

Working with experiential knowledge in mental health care Tuesday 31th of May 15-17 pm Central European Time Free webinar Organised by the CARe Network in collaboration with EUCOMS. What is the nature of experiential knowledge? How to learn to harness lived experiences in your work as a mental health worker. What is the additional value? Tensions and challenges: how ...

21 Apr 2022

20th April 2022 Learn about the interaction between emergency aid and mental health services in three countries surrounding Ukraine: Moldova, Romania and Poland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6lc_1ThlB0 With contributions of Lidiia Kasianchuk Victoria Condrat Peter McBride Tiberiu Rotaru Artur Kochanski, Wendy Weijts and the music of Andriy Khlyvnyuk and ...

15 Apr 2022

It's been some days since our webinar on Network Psychiatry ended, but the journey never ends while we all work together for the good of our community.Our friends from Netherlands and Japan had great presentations on the main topics of the webinar: Resource Group and Seikatsu Rinsho.The webinar had 2 interpreters that made our communication smooth for the Japanese and English speakers. T...

22 Mar 2022

On Tuesday 12th April, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM / 18:00 Japan, Niels Mulder and Takashi Iseda will present ways to collaborate with the informal network in The Netherlands and Japan: the resource group and "Seikatsu Rinsho". Because of the different time zones, this Webinar is not on the usual Wednesday evening, but on Tuesday during the day. In this Webinar, we bring together metho...

13 Mar 2022

JA on Implementation of Best Practices in the area of Mental Health EUCOMS is a stakeholder for a new EU Joint Action: ImpleMENTAL, and attended the Kickoff-meeting last year. We are looking forward to following and contributing to this important project with participants from many EU countries. The European Joint Action (JA) on Implementation of Best Practices in the Area of Menta...

12 Apr 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVLPZCx8CtI EUCOMS Webinar on FACT in The Netherlands, Norway and SloveniaYou are invited to join the EUCOMS Webinar on Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) model on April 28, 19-20.30h CET. You will learn about the development of the FACT in The Netherlands, Norway and Slovenia. As always with an intro and outro of a peer exert and live music...

01 Mar 2021

On Friday February 26 Rene Keet met the ambassador of EUCOMS in Australia Ivan Frkovic, He is the mental health commissioner in Queensland in the Northeast of Australia, a state with 5.5 million inhabitants. Many of them live in the greater Brisbane area i.e. south-east Queensland, yet the state is huge, going all the way up to subtropical Cairns and it has small rural remote areas in th...

01 Mar 2021

On Friday February 26 René Keet met Georg Spiel, the ambassador of EUCOMS in Austria. He is a child and youth neurologist and psychiatrist and general psychiatrist. His focus shifted over time from basic science to community mental health care. He describes this shift as a necessity because of the high rates of mental ill health. He works for the Foundation pro Mente that provides commun...