UPSIDES peer support workers from the UPSIDES study site in Ulm/Günzburg presented their work at the 14th International ENMESH conference in Tel Aviv! Common topics in peer support were gathered and shared in this presentation. The aim was to foster knowledge exchange about peer support and its implementation across different…
The latest issue of our regular newsletter has just been published. The English version can be found in the output area, the localised variants in the multilingual area. Thank you to Palak and all others who contributed!
With the end of the recruitment phase, the RCT of the upsides project was able to reach an important milestone! Over 600 participants were recruited across all sites in Germany, India, Israel, Uganda and Tanzania. Especially due to the pandemic situation, this is a great achievement by all recruitment centers…
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…
Peer support workers from Israel have prepared a collection of quotes of what peer support means to them. This collection has been developed to celebrate the Global Peer Support Celebration Day (GPSCD) and to spread the awareness of peer support in general. Special thanks to the Israeli team! …
To celebrate the Global Peer Support Celebration Day (GPSCD), the UPSIDES team from Hamburg of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) has gathered a small collection of quotations why peer support is important and what it means to them. This collection has been developed in cooperation with peers from many…
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.…
The recordings of the webinars can now be viewed in our output area in the section “videos”! Peer support is increasingly being recognised as a best practice intervention for rights-based, recovery-oriented mental health care around the world. However, much of the evidence for peer support comes from Anglophone…
The recordings of the webinars can now be viewed in our output area in the section “videos”! Peer support is increasingly being recognised as a best practice intervention for rights-based, recovery-oriented mental health care around the world. However, much of the evidence for peer support comes from the Global…
