Promoção das Capacidades de Liderança e do Empoderamento (Promoting Leadership Skills and Empowerment)

About this project

<p>This project aims at promoting leadership skills and empowering people with experience of mental illness. It includes a training component on the topic of leadership to the target audience (integrating 10 people with experience in mental illness in the training team) and another awareness raising component and public outreach, through sensitization sessions in universities and schools (with speakers people with experience in mental illness). The whole project was designed with the support of people with experience of mental illness using participatory methods.</p>

Bilateral cooperation results

The present project established a partnership with two Norwegian entities, namely Stiftelsen Milepælen Ungdomshjem and the Norwegian Resource Centre for Community Mental Health (NAPHA), due to their development of intervention programs similar to those of the national partner entities. As planned in the application, these two Norwegian organizations participated in training activities within the scope of Leadership Training, where they presented their experiences and results. This facilitated the promotion of mutual knowledge and understanding, the sharing of best practices, and reflection on the most effective intervention models for promoting empowerment. The Norwegian Resource Centre for Community Mental Health (being an entity in the field of mental health) also participated in the International PEDM Conference organized at the end of the project, where they had the opportunity to present and disseminate their work (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUoa5TWWOlk).

Project partners

• Stiftelsen Milepælen Ungdomshjem Donor project partner· Norway