Mental Health and Solidary Economy Network
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The Mental Health and Solidary Economy Network is a means for articulating experiences obtained on hands-on day-to-day work around the issue. It is composed of professionals that are users of the public mental health services offered by the State of São Paulo, and it aims to encourage trade, training and knowledge & social technollogies exchange.
Sobre você
Sobre você
Primeiro nome
Rede de Saúde Mental e
Sobrenome
Economia Solidária
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Organização
Rede de Saúde Mental e ECOSOL
País
Brazil
Sobre sua organização
Nome da organização
Rede de Saúde Mental e ECOSOL
Página da organização na internet
Telefone da organização
11-3661-1794
Endereço da organização
Alameda Eduardo Prado, 716 apt. 151
País da organização
Brazil
Sua ideia
Name Your Project
Mental Health and Solidary Economy Network
País onde se dará o foco de atuação
Brazil
Describe Your Idea
The Mental Health and Solidary Economy Network is a means for articulating experiences obtained on hands-on day-to-day work around the issue. It is composed of professionals that are users of the public mental health services offered by the State of São Paulo, and it aims to encourage trade, training and knowledge & social technollogies exchange.
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Inovação
Por que a ideia é única e qual o diferencial em relação aos demais projetos do mesmo campo de atuação?
The Mental Health and Solidary Economy Network’s uniqueness is related to the fact that it is not meant to organize the public mental health services, but the projects (enterprises) related to the theme, having the users as protagonists. The Network seeks to optimize and articulate the projects, aiming to increase their space of social and economic expression and to increase their business opportunities, as well as to provide technical assistance on entrepreneurship, fair trade and solidary economy. The Network currently involves more than 40 projects from over 20 cities in the State of São Paulo, and has already realized many initiatives, like the Mental Health and Solidary Economy Fair, the Training Seminar for Mental Health and Solidary Economy Replicators in the Nursing School of University of São Paulo, besides organizing a delegation bus for the Marcha dos Usuários (public demonstration of users of mental health services) in Brasilia.
A sua inovação é patenteada?
Não
Impacto
This Entry is about (Issues)
Quais foram os impactos obtidos até o momento?
a) More than 15,000 reais obtained through network activities; b) Technical Assistance on accountacy and legal issues (still under development); c) Training of over 58 Mental Health and Solidary Economy Replicators, certified by the Nursing School of University of São Paulo; d) Legalization of two associations; e) Participation on over 4 Culture and Solidary Economy Fairs, promoted by the Solidary Economy Forums of the State of São Paulo.
Problema
The greatest challenge of the Network is to get a legal register for enterprises, with economic focus. The Network chose to create a Social Cooperative to economically represent the many projects (enterprises). Also, to get a formal recognition by the government of the economic, social and therapy impact achieved by the projects within public space.
Ações
a) Training on Business Plans and Economic Sustainability; c) Accountacy and legal assistance; d) Training courses; e) Development of communication tools (bulletins, website, photos).
Resultados
a) elaboration of Business Plans, increasing revenue of the Network’s projects (enterprises); b) Creation of a Social Cooperative and creation or legalization of associations; c) Increase of trade within the Network and articulation of new productive chains; d) Formation of a team (50 people) of replicators on Mental Health and Solidary Economy; e) To increase access to information on these issues and improve advertisement of the involved projects (enterprises).
O que é essencial para que sua inovação seja bem sucedida nos próximos 3 anos?
To be successful, the Mental Health and Solidary Economy Network should maintain its monthly meetings, as it is doing now, and always improvethr collective process of organizing many activities (courses, seminars, demonstrations and fairs). The Network needs to create a Social Cooperative to enable an increase on contracts and partnerships to benefit the projects (enterprises).
Qual(is) seria(m) os obstáculos para a sua inovação?
a) To overcome legal problems and limitations; b) to overcome problems and limitations on accountancy area related to the Social Cooperative and users who receive social benefits; c) to defeat limits imposed by the traditional market, which is based on the stigmatization of mental illness.
Quantas pessoas, por ano, são beneficiadas pelo sua inovação?
101‐1000
Qual é a renda familiar média da comunidade que a sua inovação beneficia, em U$?
$100 ‐ 1000
A sua inovação influencia políticas públicas?
Sim
Sustentabilidade
Em que fase está a sua inovação?
Em execução entre 1-5 anos
Sua organização é
OSC/ONG
Sua inovação/iniciativa está vinculada a uma organização estabelecida?
Sim
Se "Sim", nome da organização
Associação Vida em Ação - Associação Franco Basaglia - Escola de Enfermagem da USP
Há quanto tempo foi fundada a sua organização?
Há 1-5 anos
Sua organização possui Diretoria ou Conselho Consultivo?
Não
Sua organização possui alguma parceria não financeira com organizações sociais?
Não
Sua organização possui alguma parceria não financeira com empresas?
Não
Sua organização possui alguma parceria não financeira com o governo?
Não
Conte-nos mais por que as parcerias acima são essenciais para a execução ou desenvolvimento da sua inovação
The partnerships with the government, particularly with the Ministry of Education, are essential for us to keep our relationship with the university, providing us with access to many social technologies and knowledge amassed there. The partnerships with other social organizations is crucial to strengthen the idea of Network, as it encourages trade and solidarity between projects.
Quais são as três ações mais relevantes e necessárias para o crescimento da sua inovação ou organização?
a) Organization of Mental Health and Solidary Economy Fairs; b) Creation of a Social Cooperative; c) Legal and Accountancy technical assistance.
A história
Em que momento decidiu criar/liderar esta inovação? Conte-nos a sua história
The Mental Health and Solidary Economy Network was born as a means to demonstrate the collapse of asylums, at the same time as it creates real opportunities to counter the exclusion logic of capitalism, trying to rescue the practices, desires and insights of those who try to make some sense out of mental illness. The Network is the result of many activities performed on Mental Health and Solidary Economy. It was born from some projects around mental health approaching each other and the Solidary Economy Forum of São Paulo, and is now in a stage of affirmation and development. During 2008, two activities of discussion and training between actors involved on the Psychiatric Reformation were prominent in the agenda of these meetings: the presence of Prof. Dr. Valmor Schiochet from Social Projects Nucleus of the Regional Labor Superintendence of São Paulo and the Solidary Economy Forum of São Paulo itself. The activities were held in the Post-graduation headquarters of the Nursing School of University of São Paulo and in the Center for Psycho-Social Support (CAPS) of Itaim-Bibi in São Paulo. After these initiatives, many projects around job and income generation, free enterprises, associations, researchers, users and mental health professionals started to organize themselves and realize biweekly meetings towards the creation of the Network.
Conte-nos a biografia do(a) inovador(a) social que criou ou lidera esta inovação
Profª. Drª. Ana Luisa Aranha: specialist on the implementation of public mental health equipments and mental health projects. Author of Psycho-social Census of residents of psychiatric hospitals in the State of São Paulo. Academic Coordinator of the CNPQ-USP Project: Mental Health and Solidary Economy Network.
Leonardo Penafiel Pinho: popular educator, member of executive board of Solidary Economy Forum of State of São Paulo. Coordinator of the Solidary Economy Social Forum (World Social Forum 2010 – 10 years). Technical Coordinator of the CNPQ-USP Project: Mental Health and Solidary Economy Network.
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