1. Piloting with INTRAS Community Final Conference, Valladolid 6 th & 7 th October 2015

2. INTRAS PILOT: OBJECTIVE: Empowering people with mental illness through the use of community reporting techniques METHODOLOGY The methodology used was meanly learning by doing, but with a little support of theory sessions on reporting techniques

3. INTRAS COMMUNITY: People with mental health issues users of the day center run by INTRAS in Valladolid. 3 CLAs and 6 Community Reporters + 2 new reporters since beginning of September 2015 COMMUNITY REQUIREMENTS They required special support during the project and practical sessions. Motivation is crucial for this target group Some of them have problems for keeping attention for long time Very few and short theory sessions.

4. STARTED IN MAY 2015 AT THE BEGINNING :  One of the CLAs explained the basic theoretical contents to the team.  Training used to be held twice per week. NOW:  Mondays meeting for desk work (3 hours) + work on the field (around 2 hours per week). During 15 months (total of 300 hours)  They work as a team  CLAs just give support on certain tasks  They keep being very motivated. EVOLUTION :

5. MEDIA USED  On line magazine.  8th issues published.  Bimensal magazine  Miscellaneous magazine with reports and interviews: Culture, sport, news in the Foundation, events in Valladolid, health, cooking, etc.  The editorial department (CRs + CLAs) choose and decide the contents of each issue during the weekly working meeting.

6. DIARY OF THE PILOTING : highlights MARCH 2014 Training sessions on journalism (how to create a story, 5W, types of journalism, etc), video taping & editing, photography, etc. APRIL 2014 Creation of reporters team and distribution of tasks in the team: Interviewer; editor and redactor; video editing; Photographer; preparation and transcription of interviews; cameramen... 1 st working meetings: decisions about the new magazine: contents, topics, sections, etc. 1 st Interviews, reports, video taping and edition, etc. MAY 2014 Starting to Work on the magazine: Writing of articles (sports, events, Intras activities, travel...), using INDESIGN, taking pictures, etc. 9 th JUNE 2014 Veintemetros 1 st issue of Veintemetros magazine !!

7. The “Veintemetros”team is very proud of their work, motivated and enthusiastic There has been a change in their attitude, behavior and mood :  more responsible and active,  more creative and showing initiative.  the group feeling and social relationships have improved. STRENGH: flexibility of the topics, they can talk about things that really interest them. The figure of the CLAs has revealed as an excellent empowerment tool and the three current CLAs are strongly committed and involved in the community reporting, even more than the expected. DISTRIBUTION: whole INTRAS community (workers, users, friends, etc.). They have been congratulated by staff and friends of the Foundation The director of the online newspaper called Palabras Menores invited them to participate in the newspaper. IMPACT & OUTCOMES IN THE COMMUNITY

8. LEADING ARTICLE - 8th ISSUE (September 2015) Next September, the European Project LOCATE is ending (...) This project has supposed to us a lot of work but also a lot of learning, many new experiences, to meet and treat with many interesting people through the interviews, great team collaboration between colleagues “reporters” and a deeper and better understanding between us. (…) During all this time, there have been moments of illusion and moments of disenchantment. Many colleagues have passed by the “editorial department”, (...) All of them were welcome and received the support from “the veterans”, and have done their best without scrimp on working. All of us had to make a remarkable effort to get the magazine off the ground, but it was worth the effort because we are very satisfied with the work we have done, even though it can be improved, we are proud of having published by now eight numbers of the magazine when nobody believed that we could nor even to publish three. And I said “by now”, because even if the LOCATE project finishes, we are continuing with our magazine, because it has left a mark on us, because we feel like to continue and because our readers enjoy it, and so they say to us. We will go on till we are empty of ideas or without enthusiasm, but we believe that we are still plenty of both.

10. THANK YOU VERY MUCH GRAZIE ΣΑΣ ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΟΥΜΕ VĂ MULUMESC MUCHAS GRACIAS María Carracedo: proyectos6@intras.esproyectos6@intras.es