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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

  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:

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 and 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...

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  -  home   -   health   -   hope  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