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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 |
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SMES-MHSE Europa is |
SMES-Europa - Mental
Health
and Social Exclusion
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:
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there is no DIGNITY
without respect of
fundamental rights,
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there is no
RIGHTS without
access to rights services,
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there is no
HEALTH
without
mental
health,
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there is no
MENTAL
HEALTH,
without
well-being.
TARGET:
marginalised & excluded
people |
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Mentally
ill people without adequate assistance,
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Young
people at risk of losing viable contact
with society,
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Elderly people who have been
abandoned,
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Refugees & migrants without
permission of residence's.
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GENERAL OBJECTIVES
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Improve physical, mental and social
WELL-BEING
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Promote respect of human
RIGHT & DIGNITY
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Promote
DIGNITY & WELL-BEING for people
living in extreme social and health
poverty
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Facilitate
ACCESS to citizenship rights,
to social and health services
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Promote
INCLUSION : participation &
solidarity with a special attention for
homeless
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SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
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Heightening of awareness for all civic society trough adequate
information with media
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Networking : improving synergies
and opportunities of working together,
workers of health & social sector, public &
private
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Education & training: permanent &
continuum, promoting exchanges and
evaluation
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Lobbying and advocacy.
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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?
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The TRUE CAUSES of poverty
and social exclusion are far from being eradicated
in Europe.
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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
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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.
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Homelessness is an affront to every value
that we assign to the concept of
CITIZENSHIP.
Homeless, are
among the most marginalised in our communities
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All persons have the RIGHT to the best
available mental
health care, which shall be part of the
social care system.
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The stigma and
discrimination,
related to the
mental disease, are long-lasting
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Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity.
It is an act of justice
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It
is the protection of a fundamental human right,
the Right to Dignity and a
Decent
Life.
While poverty persists, there is no true freedom
(Nelson
Mandela - London 3/2/2005)
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