GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH PEER NETWORK
  • Home
  • ABOUT US
    • Board of Management
    • Global Office
    • Regional Executive Committee
    • Country Leadership Committee
    • Our Mentors
    • Honorary Members
  • OUR FOCUS AREAS
    • Awareness & Advocacy
    • Lived Experience Engagement
    • Empowerment
    • Research
    • Human Rights
  • WHO WE WORK WITH
    • International Agencies
    • International Organisations
    • Research & Academic Institutions
    • Public & Private Sectors
  • OUR IMPACT
    • Annual Reports
    • Testimonials
    • Achievements
    • Our Reach
  • OUR SERVICES
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Membership
    • Committees
    • Donate
  • RESOURCES
  • CONTACT US
  • Home
  • ABOUT US
    • Board of Management
    • Global Office
    • Regional Executive Committee
    • Country Leadership Committee
    • Our Mentors
    • Honorary Members
  • OUR FOCUS AREAS
    • Awareness & Advocacy
    • Lived Experience Engagement
    • Empowerment
    • Research
    • Human Rights
  • WHO WE WORK WITH
    • International Agencies
    • International Organisations
    • Research & Academic Institutions
    • Public & Private Sectors
  • OUR IMPACT
    • Annual Reports
    • Testimonials
    • Achievements
    • Our Reach
  • OUR SERVICES
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Membership
    • Committees
    • Donate
  • RESOURCES
  • CONTACT US
Picture

international
organisations

Our partnerships with international organisations help advance our collective and common advocacy and awareness goals, and help  develop materials that can have a greater impact on a larger population.
Through working with and collaborating with international organisations, we believe we can make a more impactful difference in people's lives across continents.

​Partnership with IIMHL

Picture
We are celebrating yet another exciting partnership, with the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL).

The global partnership will strengthen engagement initiatives, and share knowledge of the challenges and solutions for improving mental health. There is a shared commitment to work through both IIMHL's member countries, collaborative networks and GMHPN's connections with countries around the world to promote and ensure the inclusion of people with lived experience by joining forces to highlight issues such as human rights, mental health literacy and de-stigmatisation and non-discrimination in mental health care user services. 
Picture
Find out more about Ember

Ember Partnership

The GMHPN is excited to have been selected as one of the nine partners of Ember cohort 2022 out of 167 applicants worldwide. Ember is an initiative by the SHM Foundation that supports excellent mental health initiatives in low-resource settings so they can grow and thrive. We are looking forward to strengthening our capacity and skills within the organisation through this partnership to take GMHPN to another level of success and inspire greater change globally.​

​Partnership between GMHPN and RECONNECT (UAE)

RECONNECT is a mental health and wellness awareness program operating in the UAE under Chin Chin Events.

GMHPN signed an agreement with RECONNECT to create an alliance to work together to further common objectives and areas of work, focusing on the improvement of mental health across the UAE and the rest of the world. 
Picture
​RECONNECT is launching a series of community events and mental health programs for corporate and education in Dubai that started February 14th, 2022. RECONNECT will allocate 5% (five percent) of its annual net profit to GMHPN, as its charity of choice, to support GMHPNs efforts in global lived experience leadership and advocacy.  

Official Partnership between GMHPN and Recovery IPSS (Portugal)

Picture
Picture
RECOVERY IPSS signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Global Mental Health Peer Network (GMHPN).

The signing ceremony took place virtually on 29 July 2021, with the presence of Miguel Durães, President of the Board of RECOVERY IPSS, and Claudia Sartor, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of GMHPN, representing Charlene Sunkel, Founder and Chief Executive Officer.

​With the signing of this protocol, not only is the way open for the affiliation of users of RECOVERY IPSS, applying for Portuguese representatives, making Portugal the 37th country represented in the GMHPN, but also creating conditions for exchanges of experiences and training between both institutions.
​Miguel Durães considers that “ the signing of this protocol is a historic landmark for our country. GMHPN collaborates with international organizations such as the UN and WHO, and its main objective is to help cultivate a new generation of leaders with mental health conditions, drive change and transformation in the global mental health sector, in a sense that we, as an institution, fully review ourselves. With this protocol, we are going to allow the expansion of borderless experiences to our users, family members and caregivers so that we can continue on the path of defining policies, research and practices centered on the defense of human rights in mental health. It is an honor for our institution to take this path together with the Global Mental Health Peer Network ”, he concludes.

For her part, Claudia Sartor stresses that “ the Global Mental Health Peer Network is pleased to join forces with RECOVERY IPSS and establish a great working relationship between the two organizations. We look forward to starting to work in our mutual interest to improve global mental health .”
Watch the Ceremony Video

CBM's ​Community Mental Health Good Practice Guide: Peer Support

We collaborated with CBM Global in the development of this valuable resource that explains the concept of peer support, its benefits and why it is important in mental health, especially in low and middle income countries.
Download the Booklet
Picture
Picture

Speak Your Mind Global Campaign​

We are a global partner of the Speak Your Mind campaign that brings together people from 19 countries around the world - pledging to secure meaningful and urgent action from their governments, demanding they invest in mental health. 
Find out more
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)