2007wmhday

Eastern Mediterranean Region: Israel Two meetings of note will take place in Israel in the second half of the year.An International Seminar on Violence and Adolescence will be held in Jerusalem, Israel, on 15-18 November 1999. It is chaired by Dr. Emanuel Chigier, who heads the WFMH Committee on Adolescents, and is organized by the…

  Final report – “Guidelines for Programmes of Suicide Prevention”     The project started in December 2002 and was completed on October 2004. It was financed by the Belgian Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment, International Relations Department. The final product of the project – the document “Guidelines for country-based programmes…

  Message from the WFMH President Dear Friends,As I writethis first President’s column to youmy initial thoughts are of the awesomechallenge that we have as members of the world’soldest and largest international advocacy movement formental health. We live in a globalsociety that has been deeply impacted by the political and economicuncertainty of the times. People…

HELPING CHILDREN DEAL WITH GRIEF AND LOSS Children and adolescents experience grief and loss for all the same reasons as adults. They may also experience these same feelings for reasons that don’t affect adults and which may seem strange and unreasonable to parents, teachers, and other caretakers. Many children are, for example, personally effected by…

Representatives to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), New York Main Representative: Nancy E. Wallace, C.S.W. Chair, NGO (Non-Governmental Organizations) Committee on Mental Health* Co-Convenor, NGO Committee on Mental Health’s Working Group on Human Rights and Mental Health Contact: [email protected] C. Richard Donahue, M.S.W. Co-Convenor, NGO Committee on Mental Health’s Working Group on Lifespan…