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…
Lion Gai Meir, manager of Lived Experience department in Enosh – the Israeli mental health association. One of the UPSIDES trainers from Israel. Lion is talking about her experience as a peer program leader and trainer. This video was presented by Dr Galia Moran, UPSIDES researcher in conference in Germany.…
Interview with David Meineke David Meineke (DM) is a peer support worker in Ulm. In this interviews he talks about his experience with peer support work so far. Why did you become a peer support worker? DM: I think everybody needs a task. I couldn’t get…
Interview with Barbara Kohlmann Barbara Kohlmann (BK) is a peer support worker in Ulm. In this interview she talks about her experiences with peer support work so far. Why did you become a PSW? BK: When I first heard about such a profession in 2006, I thought…
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…
Publication #4 A systematic review of influences on implementation of peer support work for adults with mental health problems has been published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology and added to our output section.
The Theory of Change workshop has been conducted at the UKE (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf). Thank you very much to all participants and Candelaria and Rebecca! Please find some impressions below:
The third issue of our biannual newsletter has been published. Many thanks to Eric from Butabika for his input on Theory of Change and everyone else who contributed. The english version is available under output, while the international versions will be made available under multilingual as they are translated.
Our publication “Using Peer Support in Developing Empowering Mental Health Services (UPSIDES): Background, Rationale and Methodology” has been published in Annals of Global Health. It proves an excellent overview of the methods and objectives we plan to establish during the UPSIDES project. Find the publication in our output-section or on…
