As written in a previous post, Rebecca Nixdorf won the 2020 GACD Annual Scientific Meeting runner-up poster award with her poster on UPSIDES. There are now interviews with her and Dr. Ruth Verhey, the main winner. Please follow the links below to access the article and posts on Twitter and…
As the year draws to a close we have – just in time – finalized our UPSIDES Newsletter issue #6. You can download the newsletter here or in our output area. Translated versions will, as always, become available in the multilingual section as soon as they are ready. We at…
After more than two years of intensive work, we are very proud to present the scales our team has translated in the course of the UPSIDES study. The scales are now publicly available via upsides.org/output/ and can be accessed in German, Hebrew, Kiswahili, Gujarati and Luganda. The translations…
Rebecca Nixdorf has won the second place with her excellent poster about UPSIDES in the GACD Annual Scientific Meeting poster competition. Please find her entry below and in the output-area. You can find the poster competition and all other contenders here. Congratulations Rebecca!
Barbara Kohlmann’s contribution to “Life during the Corona Virus: View from the ground Vol. 3” has just been published! Barbara is working as a Peer Support Worker in Ulm, Germany, and describes how her life changed due to the Corona pandemic and what she wishes for the future. Please download…
We would like to officially present the result of more than two years of work, sweat, tears, hope and joy: The publication of the field version of our UPSIDES Peer Support Training Manual. It is freely accessible via www.upsides.org for everyone who is interested in how UPSIDES training provides guidance…
Please find our newest publication “Challenges to peer support in low- and middle-income countries during COVID-19” in out output area or the following link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-020-00622-y
A report from the UPSIDES Train-the-Trainer Workshop in Vienna. In the first week of August 2020 a total of 7 participants were trained as UPSIDES trainers in a 5-day workshop. The workshop was organized by the association LOK Leben ohne Krankenhaus in Vienna. The cooperation came about after the conference…
Lion Gai Meir, manager of Lived Experience department in Enosh – the Israeli mental health association. One of the UPSIDES trainers from Israel. Lion is talking about her experience as a peer program leader and trainer. This video was presented by Dr Galia Moran, UPSIDES researcher in conference in Germany.…
Interview with David Meineke David Meineke (DM) is a peer support worker in Ulm. In this interviews he talks about his experience with peer support work so far. Why did you become a peer support worker? DM: I think everybody needs a task. I couldn’t get…
