SMES
PROJECT and AIM
available mental health services
within the health & social welfare
systems. UN Resolution 46/119,1.1,
SMES-EUROPA is an
European Network constituted as an International non-profit Association. (AISBL
Belgian law 1919).
The European SMES project began in 1992 in Rome as a result of the first European
seminar on the appalling neglect and abandonment homeless people living in extremely poor
health & social conditions.
The
exclusion is a structural phenomenon of society and constitutes a political
challenge for all the Europe.
Loneliness, sickness, mental illness, drug abuse and/or alcoholism, may be the cause or
the results of this state of alienation and exclusion from society, which in some cases
may be irreversible and which could eventually lead to a complete break with society.
The
AIM specific and distinguishing SMES-EUROPA objet is the reflection and action at
the intersection of social exclusion (inclusion) within mental health (illness), the
interaction between exclusion & mental health.
The main point of
interest uniting the workers of this sector is the interface between the social
& health
field.
The extent of poverty and
social exclusion in Europe
is unacceptable ! ! !
European
Council Lisbon 2000
The problem of the
"excluded & mentally suffering people", abandoned on the streets, living
in reception centres and in precarious housing conditions, is only the visible tip of a
societal phenomenon which is more serious and widespread than it appeared to be at first.
TARGET
:
Women - Men 'home'-less
mentally ill without assistance
young people at risk of losing viable
society's
contact
children exploited and abused
addicted people to substances
(ex) prisoners
elderly people abandoned
immigrants in illegal situation.
The problem, despite national
differences, is European and, for this reason must be placed at the centre of an
urgent call for awareness and deeper consideration particularly with respect to the
development of a new political European program..
The building of Europe must
take place within a framework of an Europe of Citizenship & Solidarity.
SMES STATUTE :
in 
this is official Statuts redaction
this is our translation
cf.
www.moniteur.be ;
http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/vzw/vzwf.htm
Publication Moniteur Belge :
2002-01-15 N. 000620 Numéro de l'association : 6202002
No TVA ou no entreprise :
476429158f. - "Arretée Royale" 10
August 2001
SMES : PROJECT &
NETWORK
SMES-EUROPA is an A.I.S.B.L.: non-profit International Association, registered on 2001 by the Belgian law of 25 October 1919, modified by the law of 6 December 1954 and of June 2000.
SMES beginning as PROJECT and co-working as NETWORK on 1992 at European level for change political and practical contexts in favour of excluded people. SMES-EUROPA operates at the interface and at intersection of mental health and social exclusion in order to improve mental, physical and social well-being.
AIM of SMES is to promote in European Countries health and mental health connected with social inclusion, citizenship & solidarity for people living in extreme social precariousness & suffering from problems of mental health.