Engagement: Consultation & Decision-Making
High-level Engagement
WHO Guidance and Technical Packages on Community Mental Health Services
Our Founder/CEO, Charlene Sunkel, was involved in the review process and participated in the launch on 10 June 2021.
The WHO Guidance on community mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches is a set of publications that provides information and support to all stakeholders who wish to develop or transform their mental health system and services to align with international human rights standards including the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. |
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health UKWe participated in engagement sessions and interviews to provide our perspectives in light of the development of this new report titled "New Directions for the Mental Health Workforce Globally" by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health (UK).
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MHPSS in Infectious Disease Response
GMHPN representatives, Basma Tolba from Egypt and Claire Kaylo from Kenya presenting the outcome of our lived experience engagement session on integrating mental health psychosocial support interventions in the response of infectious diseases at a workshop in Cairo - an initiative from LSHTM, UK Health Security Agency and USJ. Well done team!
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Engaging with governmentDeputy CEO, Claudia Sartor, representing lived experience on a team of experts to consider and integrate public comments on the draft regulations for licensing community mental health day care and residential care facilities for people with Severe Mental Health Conditions and/or Severe or Profound Intellectual Disability , in South Africa, led by National Department of Health.
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Representation
Being Council
Being is an international mental health initiative, working toward a world where young people feel well and thrive. It is hosted by Grand Challenges Canada in partnership with Fondation Botnar, United for Global Mental Health, Global Affairs Canada and The UK’s Department of Health and Social Care using UK aid through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).
GMHPN Founder/CEO, Charlene Sunkel, serves on the Being’s Council which provide global expert advice on the strategy and direction of Being. |
HBGI Lived Experience CouncilHealthy Brains Global Initiative (HBGI) fully embeds the perspectives of people most affected by mental and neurological health research in both its strategy and action.
The HBGI Lived Experience Council, brings together people with lived experience across a wide variety of ages, locations, conditions, and ethnicities to help build HBGI from the bottom-up. Our Founder/CEO, Charlene Sunkel, along with a few other of our members, serve on the Lived Experience Council. |
The Global Mental Health Peer Network is registered as a Non-Profit Organisation (NPO 212-449) under the South African Non-Profit Organisations Act 71 of 1997, and is registered as a Public Benefit Organisation (PBO 930065563) with the South African Revenue Services.
The Global Mental Health Peer Network is kindly supported by the Foundation to Promote Open Society (FPOS) |