21/03/2012 - Submitted by: Jeffares Isabelle

The MHP Hands Team are developing Mental Health Promotion Handbooks for three settings, namely:

• Schools (for Teachers and administrations)
• Workplaces (for Human resources (HR) professionals, management representatives and occupational physicians in the workplace)
• Older people’s homes (for Care workers, doctors, administrative staff and caregivers in older people’s living environments).

The project aims to inform practitioners about the factors critical to mental health maintenance and promotion and to initiate, implement and monitor policy and programme development within their organisations.

We are planning to evaluate each of the Mental Health Promotion Handbooks through Face-to-Face Training Field Trials with the appropriate target group members. We would appreciate your assistance in assessing the usability and practicality of these handbooks and wish to invite you to participate in the Face-to-Face Field trial of the Handbooks.

Depending on your area of expertise, it may be possible for you to attend the face-to-face Field Trials in your respective countries or if you are interested we can send you a copy of the handbook you are interested in evaluating.

If you would like to support the development of the MHP-Hands programme, please contact Isabelle Jeffares at the following email address: i[dot]jeffares[at]wrc-research[dot]ie

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact Isabelle. We very appreciate any assistance you can offer us on this project, thank you.