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Santé  Mentale  et  Exclusion  Sociale

European net-working  for  People  living  in conditions of
Extreme Poverty and with severe Mental Health problems

The  construction  of  European  Union  cannot  be  achieved
if - at same time - will be  not  pursued  Europa of Citizens 
on respect of DIGNITY & RIGHTS - SOLIDARITY & EQUALITY

  SMES-Europa is

SMES-Europa is a European non-profit Association which works at the interface between mental health and social exclusion. It aims to improve the physical, mental and social conditions of homeless and socially-excluded people and so to promote their human rights, individual dignity and social cohesion and solidarity:

GENERAL  OBJECTIVES  

• Improve physical, mental and social WELL-BEING

• Promote respect of  human  RIGHT & DIGNITY

• Promote DIGNITY & WELL-BEING for people living
  in extreme social and health poverty 

• Facilitate ACCESS to citizenship rights,  to social and   health services

• Promote INCLUSION : participation & solidarity with a special attention for homeless

    SPECIFIC  OBJECTIVES

• Heightening of awareness
  for all civic society trough adequate information with  media

• Networking : improving synergies and opportunities of
  working together, workers of health & social sector, public & private

• Education & training: permanent &  continuum,
  promoting exchanges and  evaluation

• Lobbying and advocacy.

The poverty, as social exclusion, as homelessness in Europa, despite national differences, it's an European
structural problem of society. 

Number of people living below the poverty line and in social exclusion in the Union is unacceptable...

For this reason must be placed at the centre of an urgent call for awareness and deeper consideration .

WHERE & WHAT  are the true causes?

• The TRUE CAUSES of poverty and social exclusion are far from being eradicated  in Europe.

• When the person has lost everything, and  also hope on the future, them does not remain other that to survival on the street where he will be: without  RIGHT ,  HOPE - HOME - HEALTH  and DIGNITY

• These persons remain as a constant challenge and a troubling  sign not only of the economic crisis, but also  of values crisis which underpin our democracies - values such as the social cohesion, the solidarity based on  respect of individual rights, the equitable access to resources and services.

• Homelessness is an affront to every value that we assign to the concept of CITIZENSHIP. 
  Homeless, are among the most marginalised in our communities  

• All persons have the RIGHT to the best available mental health care, which shall be part of the  social  care  system.

• The stigma  and  discrimination, related to the mental disease, are long-lasting