Monday 9 June: Psychological Well being First Support® Worldwide will showcase 25 years of world innovation and attain on the Worldwide Affiliation for Suicide Prevention’s (IASP) thirty third World Congress this week.
The world’s main suicide prevention specialists with collect in Vienna to focus on analysis, lived expertise coverage and program initiatives – to assist cut back this essential public well being concern dealing with the world.
Psychological Well being First Support Worldwide CEO Angus Clelland stated: “We’re honoured to be the important thing sponsor of the IASP 33rd World Congress and stand alongside so many others dedicated to early intervention, prevention and altering and saving lives around the globe.”
For 1 / 4 of a century, Psychological Well being First Support (MHFA®) has empowered individuals worldwide to reply to psychological well being misery with confidence and talent, to assist save lives.
Celebrating 25 years
At this 12 months’s Congress, Psychological Well being First Support Worldwide will proceed to emphasize its dedication to main well being promotion approaches, equipping people, well being professionals, workplaces, faculties and communities, with the instruments to assist forestall psychological well being issues and suicide.
With greater than 8 million individuals skilled in 35 international locations, MHFA stays devoted to increasing its world attain and making certain packages meet the wants of low- and middle-income international locations, the place psychological well being sources are sometimes restricted.
Dr Jakqui Barnfield, Government Director of Worldwide Packages, High quality and Analysis, who will probably be talking on the Opening Ceremony, stated MHFA started 25 years in the past with the easy concept that everybody can play a job in early intervention and prevention to help the psychological well being of these round them. “What we’ve seen since then is extraordinary – a worldwide community creating circles of security and help of their communities.”
Addressing world challenges by means of collaboration
A robust deal with how we will help low to middle-income international locations will form Psychological Well being First Support Worldwide’s presence on the Congress.
“The challenges we’re dealing with globally – geopolitical components – battle, local weather change, financial instability calls for a unified response,” Dr Barnfield stated. “Which means listening to native voices, respecting cultural information, and dealing collectively throughout borders to make Psychological Well being First Support accessible to everybody, in all places.”
Professor Jo Robinson, President, Worldwide Affiliation for Suicide Prevention stated:
“Psychological Well being First Support Worldwide’s long-standing dedication to equipping communities with the instruments to reply to psychological misery has created significant change throughout the globe.
“As our Psychological Well being Companion on the thirty third IASPWorld Congress, their deal with empowering low- and middle-income international locations by means of culturally responsive, community-driven approaches aligns strongly with the targets of this congress. Their contribution to the worldwide suicide prevention effort is each well timed and impactful.”
The place to seek out us on the Congress
Psychological Well being First Support Worldwide is proud to contribute to the worldwide dialog by means of a number of key occasions.
- Pre-Congress Workshop: Creating World Circles of Security – A Collective Method to Psychological Well being First Support
Facilitators: Dr Jakqui Barnfield and Dr Anat Wilson
Date: Tuesday 10 June (SOLD OUT)
This interactive workshop will deal with adapting Psychological Well being First Support to be culturally responsive and community-driven, particularly in low- and middle-income international locations (LMICs). Contributors will co-develop methods to boost prevention and early intervention by adapting world proof to native contexts
- Academics and Younger Individuals – Office and Panel
Facilitators: Marc Bryant, Dr Jakqui Barnfield, Dr Anat Wilson, Ebony Whitehouse
Date: Thursday 12 June, 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Room: Stolz 1
A 90-minute interactive workshop centered on a worldwide crucial for expertise primarily based early intervention coaching to help the psychological well being of training professionals and younger individuals. - Night Fireplace Chat: Constructing World Capability for Psychological Well being and Suicide Prevention in LMICs
Facilitator: Dr Jakqui Barnfield
Panellists: Tramaine EL-Amin and Dr Sanderson Onie
Date: Thursday 12 June 7:00PM (SOLD OUT)
This occasion will discover methods for adapting evidence-based psychological well being packages to native cultures and contexts, specializing in creating sustainable, peer-led options in under-resourced settings
- Go to us at Sales space #2
Our workforce will probably be accessible to debate how Psychological Well being First Support’s evidence-based coaching helps early intervention and prevention in 35 international locations worldwide
We invite companions, organisations, leaders, and advocates from throughout the globe to attach with Psychological Well being First Support Worldwide on the convention to discover how we will work collectively to create circles of security and help throughout the globe, notably in under-resourced international locations the place misery and suicide stay excessive.
For extra info or to rearrange a gathering with our workforce through the Congress, please contact: media@mhfa.com.au.
