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On 15 September, the International Mental Health Association (IMHA) will gather for their first meeting. During this meeting, the partnership between various healthcare organizations in the Nijmegen region will be signed. On the initiative of the Proment Foundation, the HAN University of Applied Sciences, the Radboudumc, ProPersona and GGZ Oost-Brabant declare to be committed to the projects within the IMHA, they want to work together on the basis of equality. In this way they want to promote knowledge exchange in the field of mental health care in and with LAMICS (Low and Middle Income Countries).
Background
According to WHO, 1 in 4 people will need mental health care at some point in their lives, but in many countries there is still too little investment in mental health care. Especially in LAMICS a situation exists where there is too little knowledge and resources to adequately help people.
In cooperation with staff from Radboudumc, the HAN and various GGZ institutions in the region, the Proment Foundation has set up the International Mental Health Alliance (IMHA), with the aim of setting up a broad GGZ knowledge exchange in a regional equal cooperation. This knowledge will be used particularly in LAMICS countries in the field of mental health care in order to reduce the 'mental health gap' mentioned by the WHO.
Vision
The IMHA wants to encourage collaboration among health care providers by working with multiple training and care organizations to improve mental health care.
Also, they want to extend our cooperation to volunteers of the WPA, especially also the colleagues in Belgium. They believe that interprofessional and international cooperation with exchange of knowledge in the field of mental health will contribute to a better mental health care of humanity in general.
Meeting 15 September
Jacques van Hoof of the Proment Foundation will talk about IMHA and the importance of this partnership. There will also be two short lectures in the field of mental health. Frank Kortmann will speak on Cultural aspects in health care and Natascha Kienstra will give a lecture on the topic "Ethics education: The location matters. At the conclusion there will be the signing ceremony and drinks.
Sign up
Would you like to attend and learn more about IMHA? Then sign up! You can watch the afternoon online (note: no possibility to interact, only streaming) or you can be physically present at the HAN, Kapittelweg 33. You can walk in from 14:00 hrs, the program starts at 14:20 hrs. At 16:00 hrs is the closing drink to talk together.
Click here to register! You can sign up until Sunday, 10 September. You will receive an email after 10 September with more information about the meeting.
