JA PRISM
JA PRISM aims to reduce the burden of mental ill health with a specific focus on vulnerable groups through promoting good mental health, effectively preventing mental health problems and improving access to mental health treatment and services across the EU Member States and Associated countries, by supporting the transfer and roll-out of best and promising practices to new contexts. JA PRISM will facilitate the implementation of three practices with a clear human rights approach, targeting vulnerable groups such as children and adolescents, older people, migrants, substance users, and people with mental health conditions.
According to the preferences and priorities of the Member States, practices to be transferred are focused on suicide prevention (BIZI programme), addressing loneliness in elderly (Circle of Friends) and fostering emotional wellbeing in children and young people (Act, Belong, Commit). The activities of JA PRISM are distributed into 7 work packages (WPs): four transversal WPs (coordination and management, communication and dissemination, evaluation and sustainability) and three technical WPs, each of them devoted to the transfer of each selected practice.
JA PRISM represents 56 implementation sites (11 sites will gain insight on methodological approaches and practices but deployment is not expected, 31 sites will roll-out small scale pilots and 14 sites will deploy large-scale implementations) across 17 Member States and one Associated Country.
The Research Department’s role:
Lead and participate in work package two: Communication (WP2)
Support the Psychiatry team, which leads and participates in the work package for ‘sustainability’ (WP4)
Administration of subcontracting of the ABC initiative.