WHO Quality rights initiative - 15 key training and guidance materials

March, 2017

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to share with you a recent report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights which makes some clear recommendations to end violations and promote the rights of people with psychosocial disabilities and people using mental health services around the world. This report is a direct outcome of the resolution on mental health and human rights led by Portugal and Brazil and adopted by the Human Rights Council 1 July 2016.

The WHO Quality rights initiative has just published 15 key training and guidance materials to transform these recommendations into practical on the ground solutions which can be accessed at the following link

Core mental health and human rights modules
· Understanding human rights
· Promoting human rights in mental health
· Improving mental health and related service environments and promoting community inclusion
· Realising recovery and the right to health in mental health and related services
· Protecting the right to legal capacity in mental health and related services
· Creating mental health and related services free from coercion, violence and abuse

Advanced modules
· Realising supported decision making and advance planning
· Strategies to end the use of seclusion, restraint and other coercive practices
· Promoting recovery in mental health and related services
· Promoting recovery in mental health and related services: handbook for personal use and teaching

Service improvement tool
· Implementing improvement plans for service change

Guidance tools
· Providing individualized peer support in mental health and related areas
· Creating peer support groups in mental health and related areas
· Setting up and operating a civil society organization in mental health and related areas
· Advocacy actions to promote human rights in mental health and related areas

These materials have been published as pilot versions (see below for official citations) in order to allow their further review and piloting.

If you would like to review these materials but have not yet indicated please let us know.

Best wishes, Michelle
Dr Michelle Funk
Coordinator, Mental Health Policy and Service Development (MHP)
Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse,
World Health Organization

Citations

Training tools: core modules
Understanding human rights - WHO QualityRights training to act, unite and empower for mental health (pilot version). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017 (WHO/MSD/MHP/17.1). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Promoting human rights in mental health - WHO QualityRights training to act, unite and empower for mental health (pilot version). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017 (WHO/MSD/MHP/17.2). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Improving mental health and related service environments and promoting community inclusion - WHO QualityRights training to act, unite and empower for mental health (pilot version). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017 (WHO/MSD/MHP/17.3). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Realising recovery and the right to mental health and related services - WHO QualityRights training to act, unite and empower for mental health (pilot version). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017 (WHO/MSD/MHP/17.4). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Protecting the right to legal capacity in mental health and related services - WHO QualityRights training to act, unite and empower for mental health (pilot version). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017 (WHO/MSD/MHP/17.5). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Creating mental health and related services free from coercion, violence and abuse - WHO QualityRights training to act, unite and empower for mental health (pilot version). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017 (WHO/MSD/MHP/17.6). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Training tools: advanced modules
Realising supported decision making and advance planning - WHO QualityRights training to act, unite and empower for mental health (pilot version). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017 (WHO/MSD/MHP/17.8). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Strategies to end the use of seclusion, restraint and other coercive practices - WHO QualityRights training to act, unite and empower for mental health (pilot version). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017 (WHO/MSD/MHP/17.9). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Promoting recovery in mental health and related services - WHO QualityRights training to act, unite and empower for mental health (pilot version). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017 (WHO/MSD/MHP/17.10). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Promoting recovery in mental health and related services: handbook for personal use and teaching - WHO QualityRights training to act, unite and empower for mental health (pilot version). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017 (WHO/MSD/MHP/17.11). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Service improvement tool
Implementing improvement plans for service change - WHO QualityRights training to act, unite and empower for mental health (pilot version). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017 (WHO/MSD/MHP/17.7). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Guidance tools
Providing individualized peer support in mental health and related areas - WHO QualityRights training to act, unite and empower for mental health (pilot version). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017 (WHO/MSD/MHP/17.12). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Creating peer support groups in mental health and related areas - WHO QualityRights training to act, unite and empower for mental health (pilot version). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017 (WHO/MSD/MHP/17.13). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Setting up and operating a civil society organization in mental health and related areas - WHO QualityRights training to act, unite and empower for mental health (pilot version). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017 (WHO/MSD/MHP/17.14). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Advocacy actions to promote human rights in mental health and related areas - WHO QualityRights training to act, unite and empower for mental health (pilot version). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017 (WHO/MSD/MHP/17.15). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.