EUFAMI has designed and developed two training programmes for its member organisations.
- PROSPECT - Peer To Peer Empowerment & Recovery
- INVOLVE - Family Friendly Mental Health Services - Advocacy Training
There are four Training Programmes available for:
- Family & Friends of People with Lived Experience
- People with Lived Experience
- Mental Health and Social Care Professionals
- A Common Ground (for the 3 stakeholder groups in mental health)
The INVOLVE Project focuses on the training of participants in developing advocacy strategies regarding the involvement of relatives, friends, partners and carers in relation to the social needs and treatment of the individual they are supporting.
Mental Health Services often unconsciously and consciously exclude family members, friends or other care partners, from the care and treatment process and focus only on the person presenting a mental illness. International research reflects this experience and is supported by EUFAMI’s research on the Value of Caring.
The project commenced in 2021 and has completed four Information Sessions in the form of Workshops on Advocacy within 2022, with participants from Malta, Slovenia, Hungary, Greece, and Ireland.
A Family Advocacy toolkit, which can be adapted by each national member, is underway and will include an analysis of inputs, outputs and outcomes.