Severity of Poverty and Exclusion : Resignation or Challenge? A society which does not take care of its homeless and mentally ill people, but discriminates against them, is certainly not the European Community we want to build.

SUMMARY      INTRODUCTORY SESSION   THEME 1.                              THEME 2 .                                  THEME 3 .                                 ATELIERS     CONCLUSIVE SESSION    FEED BACK   -   RESUME        THANKS to all   CLOSENESS/PROXIMITY and SOLITUDE MENTAL HEALTH IN THE CITY  -  OUTREACH & bridging MIGRANTS : HEALTH & DIGNITY WORK and PARTICIPATION A - B WHAT HAS NOT CHANGED but MUST .

INTRODUCTORY SESSION  - CLOSENESS/PROXIMITY and SOLITUDE     Presentation of SMES-Europa  by Luigi Leonori, president of SMES-Europa   Proximity and solitude, introductory reflection, by Lambros Couloubaritsis,    Mental Health & European Progress a discussed relation by Mariano Hernandez (ES)   After 15 years what is changed for they, we, the civil society: by Guerino Di Tora,     Director Caritas Diocesana di Roma (IT)   Social mush (poltiglia) and active minorities: by Giuseppe De Rita, Censis (IT)   Can homelessness be solved?!  Feantsa contribution, by Freek Spinnewijn (BE)    Work: total exclusion from work and active participation by Loretta Giuntoli (IT)   Migration: job - health and dignity, by Angela Oriti (IT)   Family: lack of integrated and comprehensive support   ‘BAOBAB Centre’ for migrants.

The extent of poverty and social exclusion in Europe is unacceptable! European Council Lisbon 2000

THEME 1.   MENTAL HEALTH in the COMMUNITY and SOCIAL EXCLUSION  15 years                         later… :  city – community - family   Quinze ans après, c’est comme si c’était hier ?  Serge Zombek (BE)   15 ans après… ou 15 ans … et après !  Alain Mercuel (FR)   Mental health reform in Bulgaria during the last 20 years. Drozdstoj Stojanov (BG)   Comunità e salute mentale.  Tommaso Losavio (IT)    Promoting Mental Wellbeing & tackling Social Exclusion in Scotland. by    Lauren Murdoch and Neil Langhorn (UK)   Supplement ... 15 years USA  -  Pablo Sadler (USA)   Marina Cornacchia

The true causes of poverty and exclusion are far from being eradicated in Europe. Eu. Council  Common Report  2006

OUTREACH & bridging: ideas, methods and practices of social/health street teams     Old & new issues in homeless mentally ill outreach in Madrid;  by Maria I. V. Souza (ES)   Meeting people where they live;   by Athena Frangouli -  Takis Sakellaropoulos (GR)    Assertive outreach team Stavanger, Norway;   by Ove Evertsen (NO)   Outreach and Mental Health Services for Homeless People;  by Philip Timms (UK)   Psychiatric Mobile Team – Samusocial din Romania; by Corina Panzaru & Mirela Alexe (RO)   Hector Cardoso (FR)   Cecilia Loreti (IT)

The stigma  and  discrimination, related to the mental disease, are long-lasting.                                                                                                                               2007 Year of Equal opportunity

THEME 2 .   MIGRANTS : HEALTH & DIGNITY -                          Integration & participation in citizenship    Migrants & Mental Health: Policy Overview, by Stephen Davies (UK), Desk Officer,      Immigration and Asylum Unit DG Justice, Freedom and Security European Commission    European Survey on undocumented migrants’ access to health care - Esteso Dori      MdM, ES    Immigrazione e salute mentale Eventi psicotraumatici nel percorso migratorio      Giancarlo Santone (IT)    Carcere ed immigrati detenuti  - a  garanzia dei diritti  dei detenuti  - Fabio Guy

The real integration of disadvantaged people passes through worthy and respectful   acceptance and active through participation.

THEME 3 .   WORK and PARTICIPATION                          Work that includes and work that excludes    SOCIAL COOPERATIVES: social enterprises in Rome, Ilario Volpi (IT)    Applied strategies to facilitate the reinsertion into the job market in a homeless      people’s centre.  Teresa de Andrés Rivero  (ES)    MIGRATION: participation antidote to exploitation, GC Trani (IT)

ATELIERS  A - B     Good Practices for Combating Social Exclusion of People with Mental Health     Problems.  MHE-SME, Mary Van Dievel - Sogol Noorani   Multiple Tackling & Complex Need : Emerging Lessons from Practice in Scotland     Neil Langhorn - Kenny McGeachie  (UK)   Understanding the psychosocial reality of homeless people.     Sónia Mairos Nogueira Joaquim Armando G. Ferreira - Univ Coimbra (PT)   Personnes en pauvreté et accès aux soins (de santé mentale). POD-SPP (BE)   Nouveaux outils de soin pour les usagers de drogues en grande précarité.       Béatrice  STAMBUL (FR)   Accompagnamento Sociale e Salute Mentale SM-PSD - Laura Leone e Danilo De Luise (IT)   Accueil et accompagnement des personnes sans domicile a paris. travail en reseau    avec le SMES.  Hector Cardoso (FR)

CONCLUSIVE SESSION  - WHAT HAS NOT CHANGED but MUST change to reduce                                            poverty and exclusion..       Lo sguardo dei giovani alla conferenza - Gruppo di volontari    What has not changed – but must be changed to reduce poverty and exclusion?      Resuming Community Mental Health Care topic.   by Maria Fe' Bravo  (ES)    What has not changed – but must be changed to reduce poverty and exclusion?      Resuming Outreach topic.   by Preben Brandt    Migration : dignity and health what has changed ?      Resuming Migration topic.   by Giancamillo Trani    Après les programmes communautaires : Lutte contre la Pauvreté;  Exclusion - NAP ;      Progress,  l'Europe pourra-t-elle  'eradiquer la pauvreté et l'exclusion' d'ici le 2010?      by Jerôme Vignon

FEED BACK   -   RESUME  ...       Highlight from the tenth SMES conference   By Serap Erkan, projekt UDENFOR

THANKS to all Participants and Speakers       cf.      PARTICIPANTS   THANKS to all Institutions and Organisation who supported this initiative     Provincia di Roma  Caritas Diocesana di Roma  Secours Catholique - Caritas France  Projekt UDENFOR  Association Emmaüs  COCOF - Commission  Communautaire Française  Comunità di St Egidio  Centro Multiculturale Baobab  Cooperativa Cotrad  Consorzio ASTIR

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