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First Public Steps for SUPPORT In the last few weeks SUPPORT, the EU public health project led by SDC, has taken its first public steps, publishing two reports and facilitating an expert seminar in Brussels. The Project is co-funded by The European Commission, The Finnish Government, and the Scottish Executive’s National Programme For Improving Mental Health And Wellbeing. Until recently, the project had been operating behind the scenes, mainly around the formal consultation process on the EU Green Paper on Mental Health. Project Lead Dr. Allyson McCollam, with SDC and STAKES colleagues, summarised two of the three thematic consultation meetings on the Green Paper, before compiling an overview document of the formal consultation meetings. The summary report marks the first publicly available product of the project, and is available for download through the European Commission website at: http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_determinants/life_style/mental/green_paper/sum_meetings_en. SUPPORT is currently drafting a report from a highly successful expert seminar on Achieving Wellbeing in The Workplace, held in Brussels at the end of August. SUPPORT drew together academic experts in the field with international organisations such as the International Labour Office (ILO) and World Health Organisation (WHO), The European Commission, business and corporate social responsibility interests to discuss potential EU roles in achieving wellbeing at work. SUPPORT hopes to hold an ‘expert seminar’ of this type in each of the three years of the project, drawing together threads of interest and catalysing discussion. The outcomes of this and other project activities will be useful at an EU level, and in member states including the UK and Scotland. The European Parliament recently published a highly detailed resolution on mental health and wellbeing, available here: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/omk/sipade3?OBJID=126175&L=EN&NAV=X&LSTDOC+N For more information contact: Chris O’Sullivan, SUPPORT Project Officer, chris@sdcmh.org.uk
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