A-Z of NHS mental health publications
Community Development Workers for Black and Minority Ethnic Communities
The purpose of this Guidance is to provide a framework for local health and social care systems to introduce Community Development Workers (CDWs) into the mental health workforce in accordance with the Department of Health target..
Community Renewal and Mental Health
Jointly produced by the King’s Fund and NIMHE, this guide demonstrates the benefits that can be gained when mental health and regeneration agencies work collaboratively to tackle social exclusion
Connectedness and Citizenship: Redefining Social Integration by Norma Ware et al
Consumer Led Research Project – Bradford – Mental Health, Citizenship and Recover - download the report and the summary
Direct payments for people with mental health problems: A guide to action This guide sets out good practice in relation to making direct payments more accessible to people with mental health problems. It is intended to support the efforts that all local authorities, primary care trusts, mental health trusts and non-statutory providers to ensure that direct payments become a standard option within mental health services.
Good Corporate Citizenship describes how NHS organisations can embrace sustainable development and tackle health inequalities through their day-to-day activities.
Hidden Suffering: Romania’s Segregation and Abuse of Infants and Children with Disabilities
Handbook for Parliamentarians on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol: From Exclusion to Equality, Realizing the rights of persons with disabilities
Human Rights and Mental Health: Mexico
Human Rights and Mental Health in Peru
Human Rights and Mental Health: Uruguay
Mental Health Declaration and Action Plan
Here is a copy of the Mental Health Declaration and Action Plan signed by Ministers at the WHO conference in Helsinki on January 14th 2005.
Norfolk Pharmacy - Information for mental health
Resolution 2004(10) of the European Commission
Ruined Lives: Segregation from Society in Argentinas Psychiatric Asylums
Syracuse University College of Law International and Comparative Disability Law Web Resources
Ten Essential Capabilities
This document provides a framework for the whole of the mental health workforce across NHS and Social Care and the statutory and non-statutory sectors. Here are the capabilities that the NHS has agreed that the workforce should aspire to in the delivery of effective mental health services.
The role of International Human Rights in Mental Health Legislation
This article describes some of the elements of international human rights law that governments should take into account when drafting domestic legislation affecting people with mental disabilities.
Violence, Women and Mental Disability
Other projects of the Women’s Rights Advocacy Initiative have included documentation of human rights abuses in institutions in Kosovo, including violations of reproductive rights and pervasive violence against women. Analysis of these findings is included in the MDRI report, Not on the Agenda: Human Rights of People with Mental Disabilities in Kosovo, 2002.
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