As written in a previous post, Rebecca Nixdorf won the 2020 GACD Annual Scientific Meeting runner-up poster award with her poster on UPSIDES. There are now interviews with her and Dr. Ruth Verhey, the main winner. Please follow the links below to access the article and posts on Twitter and…
Rebecca Nixdorf has won the second place with her excellent poster about UPSIDES in the GACD Annual Scientific Meeting poster competition. Please find her entry below and in the output-area. You can find the poster competition and all other contenders here. Congratulations Rebecca!
Peer support workers from Israel have prepared a collection of quotes of what peer support means to them. This collection has been developed to celebrate the Global Peer Support Celebration Day (GPSCD) and to spread the awareness of peer support in general. Special thanks to the Israeli team! …
To celebrate the Global Peer Support Celebration Day (GPSCD), the UPSIDES team from Hamburg of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) has gathered a small collection of quotations why peer support is important and what it means to them. This collection has been developed in cooperation with peers from many…
A report from the UPSIDES Train-the-Trainer Workshop in Vienna. In the first week of August 2020 a total of 7 participants were trained as UPSIDES trainers in a 5-day workshop. The workshop was organized by the association LOK Leben ohne Krankenhaus in Vienna. The cooperation came about after the conference…
The recordings of the webinars can now be viewed in our output area in the section “videos”! Peer support is increasingly being recognised as a best practice intervention for rights-based, recovery-oriented mental health care around the world. However, much of the evidence for peer support comes from Anglophone…
The recordings of the webinars can now be viewed in our output area in the section “videos”! Peer support is increasingly being recognised as a best practice intervention for rights-based, recovery-oriented mental health care around the world. However, much of the evidence for peer support comes from the Global…
From 9th to 21st of February 2019 the Train-the-Trainer-Workshop and the second study-meeting took place in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. More detailed informations will be included in the next newsletter. Thank you to everyone who participated!
The UPSIDES Project was presented at the UKE’s Research Day by Dr. Candelaria Mahlke and Rebecca Nixdorf.
The GACD Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) 2018 was held from 12 – 16 November 2018 in São Paulo, hosted by the Sao Paolo Research Foundation (FAPESP). Coordinator Bernd Puschner, Donat Shamba and Ramona Hiltensperger were there, representing UPSIDES at the GACD meeting. It was a productive time for the researchers…
