AMAF in Europe

AMAFE has been working for more than 30 years to improve the quality of life of people with mental health problems, their families and close friends. He has developed numerous intervention projects based on the recovery model, leading awareness and information campaigns, promoting access to decent employment, developing early intervention programs or promoting the collective's participation in the community; In short, promoting full citizenship for people with mental health problems.

We feel that the time has come to open up to new experiences and ways of intervening in mental health outside our borders. Share what we have learned during these years and incorporate new methodologies that are carried out in Europe. Since 2022, we started this path through the Erasmus program, from which we work to continue growing and promoting the autonomy and rights of people with mental health problems in all areas.

An independent life as a goal

The Mental Health and Autonomy Project, led by AMAFE and with Progetto Ítaca Roma as a collaborating partner, aims to facilitate access to and maintenance of independent living, as well as reinforcing employability. Finding a job and living independently are fundamental factors in a person's recovery process and, today, they are far from being covered.

In addition, it intends to develop a manual of good practices through the transnational exchange of experiences between people with lived experiences in mental health, their families and their professionals.

This manual of good practices will promote the right of people with mental health problems to live autonomously and independently without this condition implying discrimination or exclusion to achieve it, taking control of their lives, ceasing to be passive subjects in society. .

Thanks to this manual of good practices, we hope to bring the experiences lived to the greatest number of people and, by doing so, contribute to generating an exchange in the values of mental health care, including actions that encompass both the individual and the collective, putting people and their needs at the center of any action.

Learn more about the MAP Project

Families and independent living in mental illness

Families and independent living in mental illness has the fundamental objective of supporting people's paths towards independent living by strengthening the role of families in the recovery and promotion of independent living of relatives with mental health problems, examining the strengths and weaknesses of their work and developing training moments among peers.

Learn more about the FILMI Project

The Mental Health and Autonomy Project is co-financed by the Erasmus program of the European Union. The content of this web page is the exclusive responsibility of AMAFE and neither the European Commission nor the Spanish Service for the Internationalization of Education (SEPIE) are responsible for the use that may be made of the information disseminated here.