European Network for Mental Health Promotion –

Training & Implementation Support

Originates from EU concerns on mental health: 

• High and rising rates of mental illness• Problems in treatment delivery• Move from treatment to prevention and promotion• The development of the settings approach• The Mental Health Pact

A group of (mostly) workplace based organisations become interested in mental health issues: BAUA (D), WRC (Irl), THL (Fi), ERSI (Es), FRK (Au), eWorx (Gr)  - experts support from different fields e.g. Paul Baart for workplace

Life course approach & multiple languages

The idea for ENMHP

Need for development of a range of tools in relation to mental health promotion:

Toolkit of methods and approaches to MHP (Google search on ‘mental health promotion tools’ yields 14,500,0000 results, PRoMenPol)

a) Training for professionals in MHP

(only few courses targeted at specific setting)b) Support for non-professionals in MHP

(only few supports for teachers, managers or elder care workers)

The ENMHP PortalUmbrella function (three mental health related projects):

Mindhealth:first step to…introduce the issue of mental health particularly mental health promotion as

well as methods and concepts behind…offer support for the implementation of MHP across lifespan in organisations…give access to relevant sources and networks

MHP-Hands: • aimed at practitioners of mental health promotion in three settings.• developing a set of implementation manuals for MHP in 7 languages. • training course in how to use the implementation manuals

Training Mental Health Promotion(online 10/ 2011)

First step to…

…introduce the issue of mental health particularly mental health promotion as well as methods and concepts behind

…offer support for the implementation of MHP across lifespan in organisations

…give access to relevant sources and networks

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Structure (Part I)

A. Common Training Programme 1. Introduction to Mental Health and Mental Illness throughout the

lifespan

2. General Principles of Managing or co-ordinating Mental Health Promotion

3. Environmental Factors in the Protection and Promotion of Mental Health

4. Individual factors in the Protection and Promotion of Mental Health

5. Environmentally focused interventions

6. Individually focused interventions

7. Measuring and improving Mental Health Promotion outcomes

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Structure (Part II )

B. Setting specific training programmes

adopted to specific needs

offering: specific definitions, concepts &

approaches,

further links / background

- Schools setting- Workplaces setting- Older peoples setting

The ENMHP

www.mentalhealthpromotion.net

Co-ordinator & Setting Workplace:

Dr. Richard Wynne r.wynne@wrc-research.ie

Setting Workplace:

Nathalie Henke henke.nathalie@baua.bund.de

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Contact

Nathalie Henke

henke.nathalie@baua.bund.de

+49 (0)231 9071-2466

Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Unit 1.1 Changing World of Work

Friedrich-Henkel-Weg 1-25

44149 Dortmund

Germany

www.baua.de/en

www.inqa.de