1. Mental Health Policy and Service Development
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Act, Unite, Empower
for Mental Health
WHO QualityRights
Promoting services and supports for people with psychosocial disabilities in line with the CRPD
Michelle Funk
Mental Health Policy and Service Development

2. WHO QualityRights Objectives
Build capacity to understand and promote human rights in mental health
Create community based services and supports that respect and promote human rights
Improve the quality and human rights conditions in mental health and related services
Develop a civil society movement to conduct advocacy and influence policy-making
Reform national policies and legislation in line with the CRPD and other international human rights standards 2

3. People with psychosocial disabilities & people using services
Build capacity to understand and promote human rights in mental health
Building capacity among national actors to understand and promote human rights in line with the CRPD
Health practitioners
People with psychosocial disabilities & people using services
Family members
Policy makers
DPOs, NGOs & other stakeholders 3

4. Capacity building materials
Core mental health and human rights modules:
Understanding human rights
Promoting human rights in mental health
Improving the mental health and related service environments and community inclusion
Realising recovery and the right to health in mental health and related services
Protecting the right to legal capacity in mental health and related services
Creating mental health and related services free from coercion, violence and abuse
Specialised modules:
Realising supported decision making and advance planning
Promoting recovery in mental health and related services
Implementing strategies to end the use of seclusion and restraints and other coercive practices

5. E-training
E-training version of 6 core modules on mental health and human rights
Reach, engage and train more people
Identify champions and build stronger movement to advocate for quality & rights
Change in cultural norms in mental health sector

6. Pilot e-training pre & post attitude questionnaire

7. Pilot e-training pre & post attitude questionnaire

8. Pilot e-training pre & post attitude questionnaire

9. Pilot e-training pre & post attitude questionnaire

10. Pilot e-training pre & post attitude questionnaire

11. Create community based services and supports that respect and promote human rights
Based on social and human rights models of disability
Choice - where and with whom to live on an equal basis with others
Full range of services and supports – in-home, residential and other community support services - to support independent living and community inclusion and prevent isolation & segregation
Promote legal capacity and control over life & decisions

12. Guidance on peer support
Create community based services and supports that respect and promote human rights
Guidance on peer support
Providing individualised peer support within services and the community
Setting up and running peer support groups

13. Guidance on CRPD compliant community based services
Create community based services and supports that respect and promote human rights
Guidance on CRPD compliant community based services
Identify, highlight and describe the services and supports
Outline core principles and values aligned with the CRPD
Quantitative and qualitative evidence
Sustainability and transferability
Eg. Personal Ombudsperson, Open Dialogue, Soteria Houses, and Circles of Support, home support services

14. Thank you!