Join us on Wednesday, August 21, 2024, at 11:00 A.M. (Washington DC, or EDT) for the webinar, Preventing Mental Health Conditions. Promotion and prevention interventions focus on identifying social determinants to reduce risk, build resilience, and create supportive environments. These interventions can target individuals, specific groups, or entire populations.
Objectives:
- To highlight the importance of promoting mental health and preventing mental disorders, considering social determinants, strengthening protective factors and community resilience.
- To promote a comprehensive approach to mental health promotion and prevention, encompassing various levels of promotion and preventive strategies. These strategies will address key aspects such as the life cycle, gender, human rights and interculturality.
- To emphasize the importance of multisectoral action to promote and prevent mental disorders, involving all relevant sectors.
- To highlight the importance of promoting mental health in children and adolescents.
- To facilitate the exchange of experiences and resources between mental health professionals and other sectors, as well as between people with lived experience.
- To raise awareness about the resources available to promote mental health and prevent mental disorders.
How to participate
- DATE: Wednesday 21 August 2024
- TIME: 11:00 A.M. (Washington D.C. or EDT) [Check the time in other cities at the bottom of this page]
- LANGUAGES: Spanish and English with simultaneous translation.
- REGISTRATION: https://paho-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DKRm2PHuRha-0_Aiy0fzUw#/registration
Context
In the Americas, mental health problems are a leading cause of disability and death. They account for nearly one-third of all years lived with disability (YLDs) and one-fifth of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), including mental health-related conditions, neurological disorders, substance use, and suicide. Recognizing the urgent need for action, effective promotion, and prevention are important to improve mental well-being and resilience, prevent the onset and burden of mental health conditions, and reduce the need for mental health care. By addressing the underlying factors that influence mental health, including social determinants, these actions are crucial to improving mental health and overall well-being.
PAHO’s Regional Strategy to Improve Mental Health and Suicide Prevention emphasizes the importance of developing and implementing promotion and prevention programs within mental health systems and services. These initiatives aim to implement effective strategies that require multisectoral action. In line with this commitment, PAHO is organizing the fifth webinar in the series “Foundations for Change in Mental Health in the Americas.” This webinar will explore the critical role of promotion and prevention strategies in addressing mental health in the Americas.
Agenda
- Dr. Renato Oliveira e Souza, Mental Health and Substance Use Unit Chief, PAHO/WHO
- Leidy Ospina, participant of the Parenting Skills Workshop "Nobody is Perfect" (TNEP).
- Verónica Véliz Rojas, National Manager of the Chile Crece Contigo program of the Chilean Ministry of Health.
- Dr. Daiane Machado, Senior scientist, CIDACS/FIOCRUZ and Harvard Medical School.
- Ms. Ingrid Bonilla, nurse specialist 11/Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. Ministry of Health.
- Matías Irarrazaval, Regional Advisor for Mental Health and Substance use PAHO/WHO
Time in other cities
- 8:00 a.m. – Los Angeles, Vancouver.
- 9:00 a.m. - Belmopan, Guatemala City, Managua, Mexico City, San Jose (CR), San Salvador, Tegucigalpa,
- 10:00 a.m. – Bogota, Kingston, Lima, Panama City, Quito
- 11:00 a.m. – Asunción, Bridgetown, Caracas, Georgetown, Havana, La Paz, Port of Spain, Port-au-Prince, Nassau, Ottawa, Santiago, San Juan, Santo Domingo, Washington D.C.
- 12: 00 a.m. - Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Montevideo, Paramaribo.
- 5:00 p.m. – Geneva, Madrid.
For other cities, check the local time using the following link.
Webinar series
Foundations for Change in Mental Health in the Americas
With the purpose of improving the quality of care and protecting the rights of people with mental health problems and psychosocial disabilities, PAHO/WHO advocates for a community-based, person-centered approach to mental health in the Americas, rights-based and recovery-oriented.
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